Our team does not argue about the red numbers anymore, but the actual administrative mechanics of updating and reading the scorecard still eat up ten minutes of our Level 10 Meeting. How do we streamline the actual reading and logging process to hit that five-minute mark?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

To keep your scorecard review under five minutes, you must treat it like a silent, rapid-fire status report rather than a discussion. The problem is usually that people read every single number out loud, or they wait until the meeting starts to type in their data. First, establish a hard rule: all data must be entered by the designated owner at least one hour before the Level 10 Meeting™ starts. If the data is not in, the number is red by default, and that is a separate accountability issue. Second, during the meeting, you only read the red numbers. Do not read the green ones. The person who owns the red metric states the name of the measurable, the actual number, and says either drop it or I have got it. If they say drop it, the Integrator drops it to the Issues List to be solved during the IDS® portion of the meeting. If they say I have got it, it means they have a clear plan to correct the trajectory this week and do not need team help. No context is given, no explanations are made, and no questions are asked by other team members. By moving directly from red number to the decision to drop or handle, you can easily scan fifteen numbers in under two minutes. This leaves your valuable meeting time for actually solving the root issues later in the agenda.