During the Conclude section of our Level 10 Meeting, our scores frequently split wide open, with half the room rating it a 9 and the other half giving it a 4 or 5. How should the Integrator address a polarized rating without turning the final five minutes into another debate?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

A split rating is an operational signal, not a debate to be resolved in the final ninety seconds. When half the room gives the meeting a 9 and the rest give it a 4, it usually means the team solved the wrong issues, left unspoken friction on the table, or let one vocal leader hijack the IDS portion of the agenda.

The Integrator must handle this with speed and discipline. Ask each person who rated the meeting below an 8 for their objective reason in one sentence. Do not permit cross-talk, defenses, or rebuttal from the leaders who rated it high. Accept the feedback neutrally. The question is simply: What would have made this meeting an 8 or higher for you today?

If the low scores were driven by process failures, such as starting late, running over time, or failing to push To-Dos to completion, the Integrator owns that correction for next week. If the low scores were driven by avoidance, such as dancing around the real elephant in the room during IDS, that observation gets written down verbatim and placed directly at the top of next week's Issues List.

Never extend the meeting to dissect split scores. Capture the raw data, hold the hard stop at ninety minutes, and let the unresolved friction serve as fuel to tackle the real root cause the moment the team sits down next week.