Our remote leadership team struggles with engagement during our virtual Level 10 Meeting. We suspect members are secretly multi-tasking by answering Slack or writing emails because of delayed responses and shallow contributions. How do we kill virtual multi-tasking and bring the raw, high-stakes focus of an in-person room to our Zoom meetings?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

Remote operations demand high-integrity commitments. If your team is multi-tasking during a Level 10 Meeting, they are violating the Trust pillar of your organizational charter. You must address this behavior directly rather than relying on software hacks.

First, the Integrator must establish a hard ground rule: cameras stay on, notifications are muted, and the meeting window must be full-screen. This is not about micromanagement. It is about honoring the time of the other leaders in the room. If a leader cannot dedicate ninety minutes of undivided attention to the health of the business once a week, they do not GWC their seat.

Second, keep the pace of the meeting fast and unpredictable. The facilitator should call on people directly during the IDS portion of the agenda, moving quickly from one person to another to capture diverse viewpoints. When leaders know they could be called on at any moment to help solve a complex problem, they naturally stay focused on the screen.

Finally, when you rate the meeting at the end of the ninety minutes, call out any observed disengagement. If someone was slow to unmute or clearly distracted, rate the meeting lower and state that multi-tasking was the reason. Honest ratings expose the friction and force a course correction.