Redesigned my workweek

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I recently found my bookmark to the “Redesign your workweek” course on the Atlassian Community site (https://community.atlassian.com/learning/course/planning-your-work-week). Each lesson made me realize there were helpful ideas I hadn’t considered before or had stopped following at some point.

Stop Letting Meetings Dictate Your Focus

Many of us face calendars filled with short gaps between back-to-back meetings. Since it often takes twenty minutes to reach a state of deep focus, these brief intervals result in lost productivity. To perform at our best, we must actively manage our calendars rather than letting them dictate our work. A helpful guideline is to limit meetings to thirty percent of your week. While this may seem ambitious, reclaiming your time is achievable with an active approach to scheduling.

The Spark That Changed My Schedule

I began improving my calendar after taking the Atlassian Community Learning course. This experience revealed how much time I lost responding to messages and switching tasks. To protect my focus, I developed a weekly system that focuses on deep work over constant task-switching.

Scaling the Play to Your Whole Team

After optimizing your own calendar, consider supporting your team and clients in doing the same. I plan to suggest the Atlassian Team Playbook exercise, Redesign Your Calendar, in our next customer project. This organized method helps teams agree on meeting practices and guarantees everyone has time to complete their work. By combining personal strategies from the course with collaborative exercises from the playbook, we are able to foster a culture that values focus and meaningful meetings.