During our Level 10 Meeting™ segue, our leaders frequently share good news that is actually a complex strategic pivot or a major decision they already made without the team. This soft-launches a massive discussion before we even hit the scorecard. How do we keep the segue strictly to personal and professional highlights without letting leaders use it to sneakily pre-sell their agendas?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

The segue is designed to transition your minds from your day-to-day work into the meeting room. It is a tool to build human connection and alignment, not a back door for sneak-previews of major strategic initiatives or unilateral decisions. When a leader shares a business win that actually requires a ten-minute context dump or a defense of a new strategy, the segue has been hijacked.

To stop this behavior, the facilitator must intervene immediately. If a leader starts their segue with a professional win that sounds like a major update or a hidden agenda item, cut them off. State clearly that the item sounds like a headline or an issue, and ask them which list it belongs on. Do not let them explain or expand.

Your segue must be crisp and limited to a single, brief sentence of personal good news and one brief sentence of professional good news. For example, "We closed the Acme account" is professional good news. "We closed the Acme account and here is our new onboarding plan that we need to debate" is an issue. Teach your team the difference.

As a leadership team running on EOS®, you must protect the boundaries of each agenda section. If you allow the segue to become a dumping ground for complex business updates, you rob your team of the focus required to run a high-level weekly pulse. Keep the segue light, keep it fast, and move immediately to the scorecard.