What Is a Level 10 Meeting?
A Level 10 Meeting is a structured, 90-minute weekly meeting that helps you stay aligned, review what matters, and solve your most important Issues.
You meet on the same day, at the same time, follow the same agenda, start on time, and end on time. That consistency helps you spend less time wandering through updates and more time solving Issues.
Why Use a Level 10 Meeting?
The Level 10 Meeting gives you a focused, consistent way to work through the business every week.
Without structure, meetings can drift. People give long updates, conversations go off track, and the real Issues get pushed to next week.
The Level 10 Meeting helps you:
- Keep everyone aligned
- Review key Measurables and priorities
- Create accountability for commitments
- Surface Issues early
- Spend more time solving than reporting
- Leave with clear next steps
A good meeting shouldnโt create more work and confusion. It should help you make progress.
What Happens in a Level 10 Meeting?
Every Level 10 Meeting follows the same seven-part agenda, giving you a consistent way to review the business and solve Issues in 90 minutes.
1. Segue
Start by reconnecting as people and shifting your attention from working in the business to working on the business.
2. Scorecard
Review your weekly Measurables and identify anything thatโs off track.
3. Rock Review
Check whether each Rock is on track or off track.
Move Issues to the Issues List rather than solving them during the review.
4. Customer and Employee Headlines
Share important news about customers and people that everyone needs to know.
5. To-Do List
Review last weekโs To-Dos and confirm whatโs done and not done.
6. IDS
Identify, Discuss, and Solve the most important Issues on your Issues List.
This is where you spend most of the meeting.
7. Conclude
Recap new To-Dos, confirm any messages that need to be shared, and rate the meeting.
Then end on time.
Why Does the Same Agenda Matter?
A consistent agenda helps you spend less time deciding what to talk about and more time working on the business. You donโt have to reinvent the meeting every week. The structure brings the right information and Issues to the surface.
Everyone knows what to prepare, whatโs coming next, and where a topic belongs. That discipline helps the meeting move quickly without rushing the conversations that matter.
Why Does IDS Get Most of the Meeting?
IDS gets most of the meeting because solving Issues is where you create the most value together.
Thatโs why IDS gets 60 of the meetingโs 90 minutes.
Start with the most important Issue, get to the root cause, discuss it openly, and solve it.
Once youโve solved it, the decision may lead to one or more To-Dos that someone owns for the next seven days.
The result is a meeting where Issues get solved, rather than returning week after week.
How Can Departments Use Level 10 Meetings?
Departments can use the same meeting discipline to create more focused, productive weekly conversations.
A departmental Level 10 Meeting may be shorter than the 90-minute leadership team Level 10 Meeting, but the core principles stay the same: consistent timing, a clear agenda, accountability, and Issue-solving.
The goal is to give each team a dependable weekly pulse to stay aligned and address whatโs getting in the way.
How Does the Level 10 Meeting Connect to EOS?
The Level 10 Meeting brings your EOS Tools together into a single, consistent weekly review.
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