If you leave your weekly team meeting thinking, “This could have been an email,” it’s time to make a change.
Too often, weekly meetings turn into a drawn-out recap of what everyone did, or worse, overt posturing and posing to impress the boss. People defend their work and protect their interests instead of having lively discussions and debates that actually solve issues.
By the end, nothing has actually moved forward, and everyone is bored and exhausted.
There’s a better way.
The EOS® Level 10 Meeting flips this on its head. Instead of rehashing the past, it focuses on identifying real issues and solving them as a team – fast, collaborative, and with clear ownership.
Here is the agenda:
1. (5 min) Segue: Quick roundtable to share good personal and business news.
2. (15 min) Reporting Only:
2.a. Check your key weekly Scorecard measurables and ‘drop down’ any numbers that are off-track.
2.b. Check your key quarterly priorities, called Rocks, and ‘drop down’ off-track Rocks.
2.c. Ask yourself if you have any customer or employee issues that are pressing.
3. (5 min) To-Do Review: Review last week’s to-dos to make sure they got done.
4. (60 min) Solve Issues: Go through any item you ‘dropped down’ and focus time and energy on solving the most pressing issues. Not the easy ones, but the ones that are truly holding you and your team back.
5. (5 min) Conclude: Recap the new to-dos you identified, determine any cascading messages that need to be communicated, and rate the meeting on a scale from 1 to 10.
This straight-forward agenda moves meetings from boring status updates to lively discussions and debates that actually solve problems and drive accountability.
I have the privilege of observing my clients’ weekly Level 10 meetings after they’ve had a couple of months to practice. Recently, I observed one healthy client solve 21 issues in less than an hour! The best part of it was that they actually built energy as the meeting went along, rather than seeing it fizzle out.
You’ll be amazed how much energy is freed up and how quickly problems get solved.
If your weekly meeting isn’t consistently an 8 out of 10 or better, it’s time to rethink the structure.
Tired of having boring meetings?