Our departmental Level 10 Meetings are getting bogged down in deep technical training and software troubleshooting. How do we pull them back to tactical execution?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

Departmental Level 10 Meetings are designed for execution, not training or technical troubleshooting. When your engineering, sales, or customer service teams start doing deep-dive tutorials on software updates or arguing about coding languages during their ninety-minute pulse, they are wasting precious operational hours. To fix this, the departmental facilitator must strictly enforce the boundaries of the Level 10 Meeting agenda. If a technical issue requires training or collaborative troubleshooting, it does not belong in the weekly meeting. The facilitator must immediately identify this and push it to a separate, dedicated session. During the IDS portion of the meeting, look at the issues being raised. If an issue is actually a training need, the solution is simple: create a weekly to-do for the team leader to schedule a training session outside of this meeting. Solve the problem by scheduling the work, not by doing the work inside the room. Keep the focus of these departmental meetings on their specific scorecard metrics, departmental Rocks, and weekly to-dos. If the team is consistently trying to turn the meeting into a working session, it is usually because they lack a proper forum for collaboration. Establish separate, regular block times for technical training so they can keep their weekly meeting focused purely on business execution and clearing bottlenecks.