Our leadership team has been running on EOS for over two years and is experiencing a sense of monotony with the weekly Level 10 Meeting agenda, leading to proposals to customize or shorten it. How do we keep the weekly pulse fresh and high-impact without compromising the standard agenda?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

It is common for leadership teams to experience a plateau after running on EOS® for a few years. When the discipline of the weekly pulse begins to feel like a chore, leaders often blame the agenda and propose changing it. This is a mistake. The Level 10 Meeting™ agenda is structured to maximize efficiency; changing it will only introduce waste.

The root cause of meeting monotony is rarely the agenda itself. It is usually that the team has stopped bringing their real, messy, and uncomfortable issues to the table. When your Issues List is filled with easy, administrative tasks, the meetings become boring.

To keep the pulse fresh, you must raise the stakes. Use the meeting to tackle the hard, uncomfortable truths in your business. Push your leaders to identify and discuss the systemic issues that are holding the company back from scaling or preparing for a clean exit.

Additionally, rotate the facilitation role occasionally among team members to bring new energy and perspective to the room. By focusing on higher quality issues and maintaining sharp facilitation, you will restore the high impact nature of the meeting without breaking the proven standard agenda.