Our leadership team treats the Level 10 Meeting rating at Conclude as a personal grade for our Integrator's facilitation, handing out unearned nines and tens to avoid hurting feelings. How do you shift the rating to evaluate total team discipline?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

A Level 10 Meeting rating is never an evaluation of the Integrator. It is an honest audit of the entire leadership team's collective discipline over the preceding 90 minutes. When a team defaults to automatic nines and tens out of politeness, they rob themselves of the feedback needed to sharpen operational execution.

To re-anchor the rating, the Integrator must explicitly redefine what constitutes a ten before calling for scores at Conclude. Remind the room of the objective standards:

- Did we start and end precisely on time?
- Did we cover the reporting sections in under twenty-five minutes without editorializing or debating metrics?
- Did we identify the true root causes of our top three issues rather than treating surface symptoms?
- Did every person engage with open, honest, and vulnerable debate without passive-aggressive posturing?
- Did we walk away with clear, seven-day To-Dos owned by single individuals?

If the team got bogged down in rabbit holes during IDS, allowed someone to arrive five minutes late, or failed to hit an eighty percent To-Do completion rate, the meeting is objectively not a ten, regardless of how smoothly the Integrator facilitated.

When someone offers an unearned nine despite obvious friction or wasted time, challenge them directly: We spent twenty minutes arguing about a Scorecard number before reaching Identify. Why is that a nine? Force the team to critique their own adherence to the system. Once the room understands that the rating evaluates team behavior rather than personal facilitation, scores will drop to honest sevens and eights, and real improvement can begin.