The [[Level 10 Meeting]] is a tool for: - Time Management - Accountability - Relationship Management # Time Management I have experienced many meetings with half a dozen people in them, which have resulted in 'booking another meeting to work out the details'. Which repeats the meeting again, with a room of expensive people, who book yet another meeting to 'work out the details'. And likely, only a few people interacted in these meetings to begin with. If a meeting needs more than three people in it for input or clarity, it should be rolled into a regular meeting for realignment. Hopefully, a weekly Level 10 Meeting. # Accountability Meetings should be generating actions, or 'todo' items. And actions have owners. Rarely does a meeting assign ownership of a todo items to someone. Rarer, are expectations laid out clearly for that person of what when and where the todo item is to be 'todone' Rarer still, does that person have any followup to confirm progress until it is an emergency. Or maybe, they get lucky and it is completely forgotten, and a year from now somebody brings it up again. The Level 10 Meeting includes expectation management, followup, and confirmation. # Relationship Management The Level 10 meeting includes everyone in a team and their immediate management structure. It could be a CEO and their Executive team. It could be Team Supervisor and their Individual Contributors. It could be a Department Head and their Team Leaders. If you do not have a meaningful interaction with someone every week, it is incredibly difficult to build a trusting relationship. A manager should be having a weekly [[1 on 1]] with each of their team members. However the Level 10 Meeting is the weekly event for these team members to collaborate and build their relationships in a structured manner. It also introduces opportunities for the manager to put their team members together on a problem in a way that has structured follow through for results.