We are launching departmental Level 10 Meetings™ across our operations, but we are struggling with the timing and logistics of cascading issues. How do we coordinate the weekly schedule of these departmental pulses so that issues flow smoothly up to the leadership team and decisions flow back down without a one-week delay?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

Rolling out departmental Level 10 Meetings™ is the fastest way to build organizational alignment, but without a synchronized calendar, you will experience a lag that slows down your execution. If your leadership team meets on Monday, but your sales team meets on Friday, a critical issue raised by sales will sit idle for days before the leadership team even sees it.

To create a high-velocity feedback loop, structure your weekly calendar like a waterfall. Your leadership Level 10 Meeting™ should occur first in the weekly cycle, ideally on Monday morning. This allows the executive team to review the company scorecard, resolve high-level issues, and set the tone for the week.

Your departmental Level 10 Meetings™ should then take place within twenty-four to forty-eight hours after the leadership meeting. This ensures that any corporate updates or decisions made by the leadership team cascade down to managers and individual contributors immediately while the context is still fresh.

If a departmental team identifies an issue that they do not have the authority or capacity to solve, their manager can formally cascade it up to the leadership team's Issues List in time for the next Monday meeting.

By aligning your meeting schedule this way, you minimize operational friction, eliminate communication gaps, and ensure that the entire organization is working from the same sheet of music every single week.