Our five-minute Segue regularly stretches to ten or fifteen minutes because team members ask follow-up questions about each other's good news. How do we stop this transition from eating the meeting?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

The Segue is designed to transition your minds from the daily grind into the strategic focus of the Level 10 Meeting, but it should never consume more than five minutes of your time. When team members start telling long weekend stories or asking follow-up questions about another leader's personal good news, they are eating into your precious problem-solving time.

To keep the Segue tight, you must establish clear rules of engagement. Each person gets exactly thirty seconds to share one personal piece of good news and one professional piece of good news. Once a person finishes, the next person must immediately speak. There should be zero cross-talk, zero follow-up questions, and zero discussion.

If someone shares that they went to a great concert over the weekend, the team must resist the urge to ask about the venue or the setlist. If someone shares a professional win, save the congratulations for after the meeting. The Integrator must actively police this boundary. If a discussion starts to brew, cut it off with a polite but firm reminder to keep moving.

Remember that the Segue is not a team-building workshop. It is a quick mental reset to ensure everyone is present, focused, and ready to work. By keeping this transition highly disciplined, you set a professional tone for the rest of the meeting and preserve every possible minute for deep, impactful problem-solving during IDS.