We do our weekly Level 10 Meeting™ wrap-up and agree on what needs to be cascaded to the rest of the company, but we are finding that our department heads are either completely forgetting to share these updates or delivering inconsistent messages that confuse our staff. How do we enforce the cascading discipline?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

A breakdown in your cascading messages destroys the alignment between your leadership team and the rest of the organization. If your department heads are not delivering a consistent, unified message, you are creating operational silos and rumor mills that will derail your growth and complicate any future exit plans.

To fix this, you must treat cascading messages as a non-negotiable output of your Level 10 Meeting™ wrap-up. During the last five minutes of the meeting, when you review the cascading list, do not just casually list topics. You must write down the exact bullets of what is being communicated, who is communicating it, and when it will happen.

Furthermore, agree on the precise vehicle for the message. Is it a live announcement during departmental Level 10 Meetings™, an email, or a post in your internal communication channel? Every leader must write down these exact details.

To enforce accountability, make the cascading message a standard To-Do on the weekly list. Each leader should have a recurring To-Do to cascade the agreed-upon messages to their respective teams within twenty-four hours. During the next week's meeting, when reviewing To-Dos, if a leader did not deliver the cascade, they must own that failure openly. Consistency in communication is a core requirement of your company Charter.