We want our departmental managers to review their own team scorecards in under five minutes during their Level 10 Meetings. What visual habits or rules should we teach them to prevent these reviews from turning into status updates?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

To keep a scorecard review under five minutes, you must enforce a strict rule: the scorecard is for identifying issues, not for solving them or explaining them. When a departmental manager reviews the scorecard, they should only read the name of the metric, the owner, and whether it hit the target. If the number is green, the team moves on instantly. There is no need for congratulations or context.

If a number is red, the owner of that metric simply says, Drop it down. This means the red metric is added to the Issues List to be solved during the IDS portion of the meeting. The owner is not allowed to explain why they missed the target, and other team members are not allowed to ask questions or offer help during the scorecard review. Any discussion at this stage is a derailment.

Train your managers to look at the thirteen-week trend lines instead of just the current week's number. A single red week might just be an anomaly, but three consecutive weeks of downward movement is a trend that requires immediate attention. By keeping the scorecard review visual and transactional, your team can scan fifteen numbers, drop the failing trends down to the Issues List, and complete the entire review in less than five minutes, leaving the bulk of the meeting for high-value problem solving.