“Work faster.”
Useful. Unless they’re waiting.
What prevents capable people from finishing the close together?
Walk through the close with finance and the teams providing its inputs. Follow the waiting, repeated requests and adjustments. Ask what each team needs to succeed, which competing priorities it faces and what it does when those priorities collide.
Finance needs complete inputs. Operations has an urgent delivery and no agreed way to resolve the conflict.
Agree the business priority and surface the actual capacity, information and timing constraints.
Queue time and repeated corrections, alongside the demands placed on the teams providing inputs.
A view of the work and the competing priorities that explain the delay.



