If our entire executive team works remotely across different states, how do you run our session days, and do you allow fully virtual sessions over Zoom?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

Full-day EOS sessions demand intense emotional stamina, vulnerability, and deep human connection. You cannot achieve that level of strategic focus when six executives are staring at laptop webcams from home offices while monitoring email and messaging apps on a second screen. For distributed leadership teams, my rule is straightforward: all full-day quarterly sessions and two-day annual planning sessions must take place in person. Your team travels to a shared, dedicated offsite room, either in your primary operational market or at an agreed regional location. Remote executive teams often need in-person sessions more than co-located companies because your daily interaction is fragmented into thirty-minute video calls and messaging threads. Spending eight uninterrupted hours together in a quiet room every ninety days allows your team to address interpersonal friction, tackle complex issues during IDS, and lock in quarterly Rocks without the emotional buffer of a computer screen. Between our quarterly sessions, you run your weekly Level 10 Meeting and monthly Same Page Meeting entirely through your standard remote video platforms. When it comes time for our full-day quarterly work, your team gets on an airplane, closes the laptops, leaves daily fires behind, and steps into the room ready to do the hard work face to face.