You’re always busy. Are you wasting time?
Leaders spend almost two days a week making decisions. Yet three in five say their process is inefficient.1
Chances are you’re spending more time reviewing work in progress than making business progress.
Your time with your people cuts three ways.
On their work: guiding drafts, fixing slides, chasing the detail.
On decisions: weighing options, choosing, unblocking.
On them: coaching, stretching, growing.
Time on them is what gets squeezed. Nearly half of employees get three hours a week or less with their leader. Those who get six are 30% more engaged.4
Team meetings are full of fixing and decoding.
Up to half of every meeting goes to content that isn’t ready.5
The logic is thin. The detail is missing. The point is buried on slide twelve.
So you fix it. Live. Again.
Halfhour gets it ready before it gets to you.
Your team brings a draft to Halfhour.
Halfhour helps them get it to where you’d sign off.
And shows them how, so next time they get there on their own.
So what reaches you is ready to decide on.
Stop turning OK into good.
Most value-add lies in the last 20 percent of feedback. Outsource the first 80 percent to a virtual review the team can consult 24/7.
Then you can focus, in less time, on turning good to great.
Leaders in our pilot got back a day a week.6
Tighter meetings start with better content.
Most meeting tools fix the process. Agendas. Notes. Follow-ups.
Halfhour fixes what’s on the table.
Make time for your people.
Spend your hours on the conversations only you can have.
About Sagely
Halfhour is a by-invitation product developed by Sagely, a strategy and people consultancy. It helps teams structure and maintain OKR/accountability maps, while delivering on-demand coaching and output scoring to leaders’ standards.
sagely.ltd- ¹ McKinsey & Company, “Decision making in the age of urgency,” April 2019: respondents spent an average of 37% of their working time on decisions, and 61% said most of that time is used ineffectively.
- ² About 5.8 hours a week lost to unproductive meetings: Asana, State of Work Innovation, 2024. Executives average nearly 23 hours a week in meetings: Perlow, Hadley and Eun, “Stop the Meeting Madness,” Harvard Business Review, July–August 2017. Middle managers about 35%: SHRM, “How to Run a 15-Minute Meeting,” June 2022, citing Otter.ai.
- ³ Review and rework time is an operating estimate of 3–6 hours a week; McKinsey’s 2023 survey of 706 middle managers found 18% of time on administrative work and 28% on talent and people management, which include oversight and review.
- ⁴ Leadership IQ, “Optimal Hours with the Boss,” survey of 32,410 US and Canadian executives, managers and employees, January–May 2014; engagement measured as willingness to recommend the company as a place to work.
- ⁵ Halfhour/Sagely pilot results, 2026.
- ⁶ Halfhour/Sagely pilot results, 2026.