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Focus Days

My company just created Focus Day where there are no internal meetings on that day, which is great, but it really turned into a 4 day work week (also sick lol).


Anyone else have a Focus day implemented? working? I think its dumb as shit

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CuriousFox
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A day without internal meeting bullshit???? Sign me up fam!
Sunbunny31
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Sr Sales Executive 🐰
Right? I don't care what they call the day, just give me the day!
Coffeesforclosers
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Director Sales and Market Development
for real. We are still "expected" to work though ha
Coffeesforclosers
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Director Sales and Market Development
I miss marketing already....................said noone ever ha
SaaSam
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Account Executive
Honestly, I'd love a 4 day work week. I'd likely still work a bit on that 5th day but it would be nice to have the option not to if I didn't have anything going on.
jefe
Arsonist
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🍁
That's pretty awesome, never heard of it but I dig it..
Coffeesforclosers
Notable Contributor
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Director Sales and Market Development
roll it out. Ill circle back when i see if it helps, only 2 weeks in so far, kinda love it
Gyro25
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Account Executive
I'd be down, I hate forced internal meetings..
Coffeesforclosers
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Director Sales and Market Development
Define forced, thats when the ole "sorry a deal im working on only time to meet is this time ill ping ya later" comes into play
Gyro25
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Account Executive
That's what I'd usually do if my manager wasn't so anal about zoom "happy hours", that term itself is rather ironic on its own lol.
nomdeguerre
Executive
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Account executive
But then how am I gonna get my “I survived another meeting that should have been an e-mail” badge? 🤔😂
Coffeesforclosers
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Director Sales and Market Development
Touche
Gasty
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War Room Community Manager
salute
Sunbunny31
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Sr Sales Executive 🐰
Good concept, tbh. Nice if you can then either use it to focus on whatever OR use it to schedule things like doctor, tune-up, dentist, etc. If this then means that all other meetings are now deemed extra extra mandatory though, then it's a miss.
Coffeesforclosers
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Director Sales and Market Development
True statement, and no they are not deemed anything besides what they always were. Nothing changes but a couple more meetings spread through other days in the week
Sunbunny31
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Sr Sales Executive 🐰
I like the concept.
TennisandSales
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Head Of Sales
we have focus days. but no one even follows it.

I think those are more for non sales ppl too. like we dont have THAT many internal meetings that we need to not have ANY on fridays.

Also if a prospect wants to meet on that friday im for sure taking the call and bringing anyone else that needs to be on in with me haha
Coffeesforclosers
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Director Sales and Market Development
Oh for sure, sales is exempt from this if a prospect wants to talk, also previous meetings i was also exempt because a prospect needed to talk lol.
TennisandSales
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Head Of Sales
gotta have that special treatment for sure!
antiASKHOLE
Tycoon
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Bravado's Resident Asshole
I have never heard of this, but sounds like it could be good.
Coffeesforclosers
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Director Sales and Market Development
Mixed reviews so far, Ill circle back after a couple months and let you know if it stuck and was helpful or we went back to normal
AnchorPoint
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Business Coach
There should be more of them! Where you focus your energy will follow and flow. I am a big believer in time blocking my schedule. Let's face it: most meetings are nonproductive time wasters.
Kosta_Konfucius
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Sales Rep
Sounds amazing, did the amount of internal meetings go down or did they all move to other days?
Coffeesforclosers
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Director Sales and Market Development
exactly what you would expect, they moved to other days
Kosta_Konfucius
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Sales Rep
I am actually surprised by that. If there is a bigger push to have the employees focus then there should be some meetings outright cancelled or have less frequent.
TennisandSales
Politicker
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Head Of Sales
hahah this would make me more upset 😂
Coffeesforclosers
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Director Sales and Market Development
Totally agree and it is only 3 weeks in, ill circle back and give a real update if i see change or it sticking and helping
TennisandSales
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Head Of Sales
good keep us posted!
adrienmc
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Founder @LaGrowthMachine
Slightly different : We have a no sales call day every Wednesday. It’s a great break from the rest of the week, to do all your follow ups, update your pipeline (our weekly pipeline review is a 2pm every Wednesday) as well as go through your assigned tasks after the weekly

Also, we have a policy that internal meetings are only allowed in the morning for the sales team as afternoon is dedicated to sales calls

In the end, most of them happen on mondays.

Though we’re a full remote company so setting such strict timetables is also to foster collaboration through shared availability
Coffeesforclosers
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Director Sales and Market Development
losing a day of calling, yikes.
HappyGilmore
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Account Executive
Our company does it for certain departments but not for anyone on the sales/CS side.
Coffeesforclosers
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Director Sales and Market Development
yeah i get that, but internal meetings are the real killer, i will still take customer and prospect calls on fridays, just nice to not listen to the internal bullshit once a week
HappyGilmore
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Account Executive
Totally agree, for months people have pressed leadership to scale back some department wide/company wide internal meetings which haven’t exactly been heard or acted upon by leadership
DungeonsNDemos
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Rolling 20's all day
I don't, but I'd love a 4-day week. Good for you!
Coffeesforclosers
Notable Contributor
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Director Sales and Market Development
promising trials of the 4 day work week in Europe, hopefully we adapt it to in my working career. We may ruin the planet for our kids but i think they will have a bettter work life than us lol
tightlines
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Account Executive
I like it, my company almost naturally avoids scheduling meetings on Fridays which is also nice
Coffeesforclosers
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Director Sales and Market Development
That is great, i cant say the same prior to the switch
GDO
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BDM
Nice! Would love 3 if those 😅
Coffeesforclosers
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Director Sales and Market Development
lol. So Mon/Tues/Fri 5 day weekends 2 day work week, like the founding fathers wanted
GDO
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BDM
Exactly

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