Our weekly To-Do completion rate regularly drops below ninety percent because one specific department head misses their commitments week after week while everyone else executes. How do we address chronic individual To-Do failure during the Level 10 Meeting without derailing the agenda?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

The Level 10 Meeting agenda allocates five minutes to review To-Dos. That review is binary. The item is either done or not done. The meeting room is not the place to conduct a performance review, litigate why a task was missed, or allow the offending leader to offer elaborate excuses.

When a single leader repeatedly misses their weekly commitments and drags the team below ninety percent, take three direct steps:

First, drop it straight to the Issues List. During the five-minute To-Do review, when the leader says not done, do not discuss it. Simply announce that the missed item is dropping down as an issue. When you reach IDS, address the pattern directly: Why is this seat consistently unable to deliver seven-day commitments?

Second, diagnose the root cause using GWC from the EOS Accountability Chart. Does the leader understand what done looks like (Get it)? Do they actually care about the seat requirements (Want it)? Or is it a capacity problem (Capacity to do it)? Most chronic To-Do failures stem from leaders who lack the operational capacity to say no to daily fires or who refuse to delegate lower-tier tasks.

Third, if the issue is a genuine capacity crunch, solve it by reprioritizing work or delegating responsibilities. But if the leader simply lacks execution discipline or accountability, that is an off-line personnel conversation for the Integrator. The Integrator must handle performance management one-on-one outside the pulse. Never let one person lower the execution standard for the entire enterprise.