What Is a Level 10 Meeting?
A Level 10 meeting is a weekly 90-minute team meeting format from the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS). The name comes from the goal: to rate each meeting a "10 out of 10" — focused, productive, and worth everyone's time.
Most weekly meetings fail because they drift. People give status updates nobody needed, discussions go in circles, and problems get identified but never solved. The Level 10 format eliminates this with a rigid agenda, strict time-boxing, and a specific process for resolving issues on the spot.
The Level 10 Meeting Agenda
Here's the exact agenda used by EOS companies. Total time: 90 minutes.
| Segment | Time |
|---|---|
| Segue | 5 min |
| Scorecard | 5 min |
| Rock Review | 5 min |
| Customer/Employee Headlines | 5 min |
| To-Do List | 5 min |
| IDS | 60 min |
| Conclude | 5 min |
Segue (5 minutes)
Each person shares one good thing from their personal or professional life. This isn't small talk — it's a deliberate transition from outside world to focused team time. The right kind of energy for a Level 10 meeting starts here.
Scorecard (5 minutes)
Review the weekly scorecard. Each metric is red, yellow, or green. The team does NOT solve red metrics here — they're added to the Issues List. This is a review, not a discussion.
Rock Review (5 minutes)
Each Rock owner reports: on track or off track. No lengthy updates. Off-track rocks go on the Issues List.
Customer/Employee Headlines (5 minutes)
Share one thing: a win, a complaint, a risk, a notable piece of feedback from a customer or employee. Headlines that reveal a problem go on the Issues List.
To-Do List (5 minutes)
Review last week's to-dos: done or not done. Each item was a 7-day commitment — it's either done or it isn't. Not-done items go on the Issues List.
IDS — Identify, Discuss, Solve (60 minutes)
This is the core of the Level 10 meeting. You've been accumulating issues on the list all week. Now you work through them:
- Identify: Prioritize the list by vote — which 3 issues are most important this week?
- Discuss: Talk about the real issue, not the symptom. This often takes less time than people expect.
- Solve: Create a clear to-do with an owner and a 7-day deadline.
The key rule: you must actually solve it in the meeting. Don't table it. If you can't solve it, you haven't identified the real issue yet — keep discussing.
Conclude (5 minutes)
Three parts to the conclusion:
- To-Do recap: Read back all new to-dos created in the meeting. Everyone should hear their own name and commitment.
- Cascading messages: Anything from this meeting that other teams need to know?
- Meeting rating: Each person rates the meeting 1–10. Anything below 8 gets a quick "why?" — this is how the meeting improves over time.
How to Run the Issues List
The Issues List is the secret weapon of the Level 10 meeting. It's a running list where anything unresolved gets added throughout the week — not just during the meeting.
Keep your Issues List in a shared place your team can update between meetings. Good items for the Issues List:
- Off-track rocks
- Red scorecard metrics
- Customer complaints
- Process problems
- Team conflicts
- Things nobody knows how to handle
When you arrive at IDS, prioritize ruthlessly. You won't get to everything. Focus on the three most important issues this week.
Common Level 10 Mistakes
Starting late. If the meeting starts 5 minutes late every week, you lose 4+ hours a year per person. Start on time, every time.
Solving in the wrong segment. The Scorecard and Rock Review are for reporting, not solving. Bite your tongue and add it to the Issues List. IDS is for solving.
Treating headlines as discussions. A headline is one sentence. If it's a problem, it goes on the Issues List.
IDS without a clear to-do. Every issue that gets "solved" must end with a specific person, a specific action, and a 7-day deadline. "We should look into this" is not a to-do.
Skipping the rating. The rating holds everyone accountable — including the facilitator — to the quality of the meeting. Don't skip it.
Using Taskspace for Level 10 Meetings
Taskspace has a built-in Level 10 meeting module that keeps everything in one place:
- Issues List: Add issues from anywhere in the app — from a rock, a task, or directly — and they surface automatically in your next meeting
- Scorecard: Your weekly metrics live here with red/yellow/green status calculated automatically
- Rock Review: One-click on-track/off-track reporting linked directly to your rocks
- To-Dos: Created during the meeting and tracked in the system with owner and due date
- Meeting ratings: Log ratings over time to track whether your meetings are improving
When your entire EOS system lives in one place, the Level 10 meeting stops being a chore and starts being the 90-minute window where your team actually gets aligned.
Getting Started
If you've never run a Level 10 meeting before, start simple:
- Book 90 minutes on the calendar — same time, every week
- Designate one person as the facilitator and one as the note-taker (or use Taskspace's built-in structure)
- Start an Issues List this week — add everything to it
- Run the agenda exactly as written for the first 4 weeks before making any modifications
Most teams notice a difference by week two. By week eight, they can't imagine going back to the unstructured meeting style they used before.