How to Run the Level 10 Meeting in monday.com

The Level 10 Meeting is a 90-minute weekly meeting for leadership teams running EOS. Every segment of the agenda has a defined time box, and the same agenda runs every single week without exception. OrangeDot's L10 Dashboard in monday.com keeps the meeting on track by surfacing Scorecard data, Rock status, and the IDS list in one structured view, so the meeting runs by the agenda, not by whoever's talking loudest. This post covers the full L10 agenda, how each segment maps to monday.com, what IDS tracking looks like in practice, and how OrangeDot builds the dashboard for your leadership team.

What Is the Level 10 Meeting in EOS?

The Level 10 Meeting is the weekly operating cadence at the core of EOS. It is not a check-in, a status update, or an open agenda. It is a structured 90-minute meeting with fixed time boxes for every segment, run the same way every week by the same group of leaders.

The goal is to get to a perfect meeting every week. Teams rate the L10 at the end on a scale of 1 to 10. When the score is consistently below a 10, the team uses that feedback to improve the process. The structure is what makes it work: when the agenda never changes, leadership teams spend less time deciding what to cover and more time solving the problems that are holding the business back.

Here is the full Level 10 agenda:

Segment	Time	Purpose
Segue	10 min	Personal and professional good news. Sets the tone before data review begins.
Scorecard Review	5 min	Review weekly measurables. Any number off track goes to IDS.
Rock Review	5 min	Each Rock is on track or off track. Anything off track goes to IDS.
Headlines	5 min	Customer and employee news leadership needs to know before IDS.
To-Do List Review	5 min	Review last week’s to-dos: done or not done.
IDS	60 min	Identify, Discuss, Solve the issues the business needs to resolve.
Total	90 min

The IDS segment is where most of the value lives. A full 60 of the 90 minutes is reserved for Identifying, Discussing, and Solving the issues that are holding the business back. Everything else on the agenda is designed to surface what needs to go into IDS.

One important distinction: the Level 10 Meeting is not a strategy session or a planning conversation. It is an execution meeting. The agenda exists to keep it that way, week after week.

How Does the L10 Agenda Work Inside monday.com?

OrangeDot builds a dedicated L10 Meeting Dashboard in monday.com that surfaces all the data leadership needs without switching between boards during the meeting. The dashboard is the single view the leadership team opens at the start of every L10, and it stays open for the full 90 minutes.

Here is how each segment maps to monday.com:

Scorecard

The Scorecard board pulls live data into the dashboard. Each measurable shows its weekly number, owner, and a red or green indicator. The team reviews the Scorecard in 5 minutes and any off-track number gets added directly to the IDS list for discussion later in the meeting.

Rocks

The Rocks board shows each Rock, its owner, the current quarter, and a simple on-track or off-track status. The Rock review takes 5 minutes. Any Rock that is off track goes to IDS. Owners do not need to explain themselves during the Rock review. That conversation happens in IDS.

Headlines

A Headlines section on the dashboard captures customer and employee news that leadership needs to know before IDS begins. Examples include a major client win, a client complaint, a key hire, or a departure. Team members can pre-populate Headlines before the meeting so this segment moves efficiently.

IDS List

The IDS board is the core of the meeting. It shows every open issue, its priority, its owner if one has been assigned, and its current status. The team prioritizes the list at the start of IDS and works through the top issues in the 60-minute window.

To-Dos

The To-do board tracks every action item from prior meetings, including its owner and whether it was completed. The To-Do review takes 5 minutes and the accountability is visible to everyone in the room before anyone says a word.

The L10 Dashboard does not require the team to navigate between boards during the meeting. Everything is surfaced in one view, which keeps the Level 10 moving at the pace the agenda requires.

How Does IDS Work in monday.com?

IDS stands for Identify, Discuss, Solve. It occupies 60 of the 90 minutes in the Level 10 Meeting, and it is the most important part of the entire EOS operating system. Most leadership teams do not solve enough issues each week. The IDS structure in monday.com is designed to change that.

Issues are raised throughout the week

The IDS board is not just a meeting tool. Team members can log issues at any point during the week as they arise, not just during the L10. This means the issue list is already populated before the meeting starts. The team spends the first minutes of IDS prioritizing the list rather than building it from scratch at the table.

The team picks the top one to three issues

At the start of IDS, the team votes on priority and selects the issues to work through in the 60-minute window. Trying to resolve every issue on the list is the most common mistake EOS teams make and the fastest way to blow past 90 minutes. Three resolved issues are always more valuable than eight partially discussed ones.

The Integrator keeps the group on track

The Integrator's job during IDS is to keep the team focused on the issue at hand, not related topics, not symptoms, and not tangential discussions. When the team reaches a real solution, the Integrator calls it and the group moves to the next issue. The Integrator does not need to be the one generating solutions. Their job is to protect the process.

Resolved issues move to Done with the resolution noted

When an issue is solved, it moves to Done on the IDS board. The resolution is recorded directly on the item so context is preserved for anyone who was not in the room. If the resolution generates an action item, a new to-do is created on the To-do board with one owner and a 7-day due date, before the meeting ends.

Unresolved issues stay on the board with a status update

An unresolved issue is not deleted. It remains on the IDS board with a status note and context so nothing is lost before the next L10. The full trail from issue raised to resolution is captured in monday.com. This is what separates a well-run IDS process from a meeting that talks about problems without solving them.

What Is the Segue and How Do You Run It in monday.com?

The Segue opens every Level 10 Meeting with 10 minutes of personal and professional good news. It is not optional and it is not small talk. The Segue sets the tone for the meeting by shifting the team's focus from whatever they were doing before walking into the room to the people in it.

Personal good news means something positive happening in your life outside of work. Professional good news means a win, a milestone, or something worth acknowledging from the past week. Each person shares briefly and the group moves on. The Segue is the one segment of the L10 where data is not the focus. That is intentional.

OrangeDot typically builds a simple Headlines or Segue section on the L10 Dashboard where team members can pre-populate their good news before the meeting starts. When team members add their items ahead of time, the Segue uses its full 10 minutes and never runs over. Without pre-population, the Segue tends to stall while people think of what to say, and the tone of the meeting suffers before the data review even begins.

Starting with connection before moving into numbers and issues is part of what makes the Level 10 Meeting more than just another leadership meeting. Teams that skip or rush the Segue tend to find that the rest of the L10 feels more transactional and less collaborative. The 10 minutes are worth it.

How Does the To-Do Review Work in the L10?

The To-Do review is the fifth segment of the Level 10 Meeting and it takes exactly 5 minutes. It happens after the Scorecard, Rock, and Headlines reviews, before IDS begins. The only question asked for each to-do is: done or not done.

To-dos in EOS are strict by design. Every to-do has one owner and a 7-day due date. Nothing carries over without explicit renewal. If a to-do is not done, the team notes it and the Integrator decides whether it moves to IDS for discussion or gets renewed with a new due date. The To-do review is not the place to discuss why something did not happen. That conversation belongs in IDS.

OrangeDot builds the To-do board to show last week's items alongside their owners and completion status. When the team opens the L10 Dashboard at the start of the meeting, the status of every prior to-do is visible to everyone without anyone having to track down updates or ask for a status.

The 5-minute time box holds because the structure is clear. Items are either done or they are not. Accountability is visible before anyone speaks. When a to-do moves to Done in monday.com, it stays in the board's history so the team has a clean record of what was completed each week. When IDS generates new to-dos during the meeting, they are created directly on the To-do board with the owner and due date assigned before the L10 ends, so nothing falls through after the room clears.

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