Our weekly Level 10 Meetings are getting bogged down with issues that only involve two specific team members, forcing the rest of the leadership team to sit through irrelevant discussions. How do we draw the line between a Level 10 issue and a one-on-one issue?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

Your weekly Level 10 Meeting™ is a sacred ninety minutes designed for the entire leadership team to align on company-wide priorities and solve high-level operational issues. If your Issues List is crowded with items that only affect two specific team members, you are wasting the valuable time of everyone else in the room.

To maintain a high-yield meeting, you must establish a clear boundary for what qualifies as a Level 10 issue. As a general rule, an issue belongs on the Level 10 list if it impacts company-wide scorecard metrics, affects multiple departments, or blocks progress on a quarterly Rock.

If an issue only concerns two team members and can be solved without input from the rest of the leadership team, it does not belong on the Level 10 list. The facilitator should identify these items during the agenda review and instruct the relevant parties to take it offline.

Those team members should schedule a separate, brief meeting or address it during their scheduled one-on-ones.

By ruthlessly filtering your Issues List, you ensure that every minute of the IDS® segment is highly engaging and relevant to the entire team. This keeps meeting energy high, prevents decision fatigue, and teaches your leaders to handle peer-to-peer conflict and collaboration independently rather than relying on the weekly group meeting to solve every minor friction point.