Close Down Your Interruption Factory

If your business feels more like an Interruption Factory than a smooth-running operation, you’re not alone.

Questions. Questions. Questions. Updates. Clarifications. More Questions. Quick checks.

On their own they don’t seem much. But add them up, and suddenly your whole day is gone - while the real work (clients, growth, strategy) gets pushed into the evening.

Why it happens

Most owners don’t set out to run an Interruption Factory. It creeps in as the business grows.

More clients. More staff. More moving parts.

But without clear processes, you end up with:

• People chasing you for updates.

• You chasing people to finish tasks.

• Jobs stalling because key details get missed.

Each interruption feels reasonable in the moment. But together they eat your time and keep you stuck in reactive mode.

The hidden cost

Interruptions don’t just slow you down. They ripple through the whole business:

• Projects delayed.

• Rework piling up.

• Decisions bottlenecking with you.

The result? You’re busy all day… but the important stuff still isn’t moving.

How to close it down

You don’t need to overhaul everything at once. The answer is micro-changes:

🟪 One fix a week

🟪 30 minutes each

🟪 52 wins a year

Small, consistent tweaks close the factory doors. A checklist here. A clear handover there. A simple tool to keep work visible.

Each fix takes away one source of interruption - freeing hours for the work that actually grows the business.

Your next step

🟪Which Process Personality type of business are you running?

That’s where the interruptions start and where the quickest wins lie.

🟪Check the free Process Pains Insight to find yours.