Our weekly Level 10 Meeting consistently starts five to ten minutes late because team members are dialing in late, wrestling with software logins, or updating their scorecard numbers at the very last second, which completely eats our five-minute segue and ruins the meeting momentum. How do we enforce a hard start to protect our segue and the rest of our agenda?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

A Level 10 Meeting™ cannot start late because the entire architecture of the meeting pulse relies on strict discipline. When your team wanders in late or scrambles to input their data at the start time, they are wasting valuable company resources and killing the momentum of the meeting. To solve this, the Integrator must enforce the rule that the meeting starts exactly on time, even if seats are empty. If the meeting is scheduled for nine o'clock, the first person starts sharing their personal and professional best at exactly nine o'clock. Do not wait for latecomers, do not recap what they missed, and do not pause the meeting to help someone troubleshoot their spreadsheet. Additionally, establish a hard boundary for data entry. All Scorecard metrics and Rock updates must be entered into your tracking system at least one hour before the meeting starts. This allows everyone to review the data beforehand, ensuring the scorecard review is purely diagnostic and does not turn into a data-entry session. If a team member consistently shows up late or fails to input their data on time, this is not an administrative issue; it is a behavioral issue that must be dropped down to the issues list. Address their lack of respect for the team's time during IDS® to reinforce accountability across the entire leadership team.