Our Integrator is a weak facilitator who lets the loudest voices dominate the Level 10 Meeting, resulting in biased decisions and a frustrated leadership team. How do we coach a passive Integrator to run a high-discipline meeting?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

The Integrator is the orchestrator of the business and must own the weekly Level 10 Meeting™ pulse. If your Integrator is passive and allows dominant personalities to hijack the agenda, your meetings will quickly lose their effectiveness and the team will lose trust in the EOS® process. To correct this, you must coach your Integrator to transition from a participant to an active facilitator. A good facilitator does not need to have all the answers; their job is to enforce the process and manage the energy of the room. Begin by holding a private coaching session. Help them realize that silence from other team members is a red flag. Give them permission to use direct, active facilitation techniques. For example, they should actively call on quieter team members by saying, "We have heard from the sales side, but I want to hear what operations thinks about this issue before we make a decision." Instruct them to use the IDS® framework as their shield. When a dominant voice tries to push a biased solution, the Integrator must stop them and ask: "What is the actual root cause of this issue?" Force the team to define the problem clearly before anyone is allowed to propose a solution. If the Integrator continues to struggle, have them observe an external professional facilitator or review EOS® training materials. If they simply do not have the natural capacity to command the room and enforce discipline, you must re-evaluate if they are truly in the right seat on your Accountability Chart.