Our leadership team is spending up to an hour of individual prep time before our Level 10 Meeting just to update their Scorecard, review the previous week's to-dos, and clean up their Rocks. How do we streamline this pre-meeting prep so it takes less than ten minutes per person?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

If your team is spending an hour preparing for a Level 10 Meeting™, they are treating the meeting as a high-stakes performance rather than a weekly operational pulse. This excessive prep work usually means your tracking systems are disconnected from daily workflows.

To streamline your prep, automate your Scorecard data collection. Your metrics should be pulled directly from your operational databases or CRM using simple integrations, rather than being manually compiled and calculated every Monday morning.

For subjective metrics or qualitative Rocks, set a rule that updates must be made in real-time throughout the week, not saved for a frantic rush right before the meeting. A to-do should be marked complete the moment it is done, not during the prep window.

The only actual prep a leader should do before the meeting is taking two minutes to review the short-term Issues list and decide which items they need to prioritize. The Level 10 Meeting™ is designed to be a working meeting, not a presentation. If your operational data is clean and your team is GWC™ their seats, prep should be a non-event.