Our team loves each other and uses the segue to swap long weekend stories and catch up, which regularly eats ten to fifteen minutes of our ninety-minute pulse before we even look at the scorecard. How do we keep the human connection of the segue without letting it hijack our meeting timeline?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

The five minute segue is a transitional tool designed to help your team clear their minds, pivot from their daily operational tasks, and focus on the meeting. It is not a social hour or a team bonding session. If your segue is regularly eating ten to fifteen minutes, your facilitator is failing to manage the clock, and your meeting pulse is suffering. To fix this, you must enforce a strict, repeatable format. Every team member gets exactly thirty seconds to share one personal highlight and one professional highlight. If a leader starts telling a detailed story, the facilitator must immediately cut them off and move to the next person. Do not apologize for interrupting. You are protecting the team's ninety minutes. If your team genuinely needs more social connection, do not try to squeeze it into the Level 10 Meeting™. Schedule a separate lunch or a casual team event. The weekly pulse is a high accountability, high focus environment, and letting the segue drag on sets a lazy tone for the rest of the ninety minutes. Your team must enter the room ready to execute. Keep the segue to five minutes maximum, no exceptions.