Our fully remote leadership team is pushing to shorten our weekly Level 10 Meeting™ from ninety minutes to sixty minutes, claiming that ninety minutes on a video call is exhausting and kills their productivity for the rest of the day. How do we maintain the integrity of our ninety-minute weekly pulse without burning out our remote leaders?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

The request to shorten the Level 10 Meeting™ is a symptom of a deeper problem. Ninety minutes is the exact amount of time required to run a high-performing leadership team. If your remote leaders find the ninety-minute weekly pulse exhausting, it is not because of Zoom fatigue. It is because your meeting is boring, administrative, or failing to solve real issues. When a Level 10 Meeting™ is run correctly, sixty of the ninety minutes are dedicated to IDS®. This is the high-energy, collaborative portion where you solve complex operational bottlenecks. If your meeting feels draining, you are likely spending too much time on reporting and not enough time on actual problem-solving. To maintain the ninety-minute standard, you must run a tighter ship. Do not shorten the meeting. Instead, audit your agenda. Ensure your reporting sections are lightning-fast. The scorecard, Rock review, headlines, and To-Do list must be completed in twenty-five minutes flat. If your remote team is zoning out, challenge them. Bring more critical, uncomfortable issues to the table. When the issues list is filled with high-stakes operational and exit-readiness problems, no one will have time to feel fatigued. Keep the full ninety minutes and make every minute count.