Keeping Circles Connected with the EOS Meeting Pulse

Welcome back to the Business Builder newsletter. We're continuing the EOS series, and in today's issue, I'll share my experience with implementing the Meeting Pulse routine in my business.

Estimated read time: 3 minutes.

Staying Focused on Your Rocks

As businesses grow, so does their complexity. For example, the more staff you hire, the more complex everything becomes.

Once a leadership team has set their quarterly priorities and annual goals, it’s crucial to stay focused and work towards the shared goals for the business.

Simplifying Everything with the Meeting Pulse

The Meeting Pulse keeps the team on track and addresses crucial obstacles that hinder business progress.

It focuses on solving issues at their root through a process known as IDS, to prevent them from reoccurring.

The 5 essential elements of The Meeting Pulse include adhering to the same day, same time, same agenda, starting on time, and ending on time.

Below are the 3 stages of the EOS Meeting Pulse.

Annual Meeting

The annual planning meeting is a two-day event that happens once a year and is the kickoff for the new year ahead.

Day one is all about reviewing the previous year and setting the tone for the new year, and day two is about planning the first quarter of the year.

Quarterly Meeting

At the end of each quarter, the company’s leadership team gets together for one day to hold a meeting to accomplish numerous tactics.

Some of the most important elements of the quarterly meeting are:

• Reviewing the V/TO and the previous quarter’s rocks.

• Establishing next quarter’s rocks.

• Resolving key issues through the IDS process.

Weekly Level 10 Meeting

The L10 meetings are deliberately designed to be as simple as possible for the team. They run on the same day every week.

In this meeting, the leadership team gets a pulse on how the business is going across all divisions and can identify and solve key issues.

An L10 meeting starts and finishes on time, runs for just 90 minutes, and follows the same agenda every week:

• Segue – Transition from working in the business to working on the business.

• Scorecard – Check that weekly accountabilities are being achieved.

• Rocks – Check that quarterly priorities are on track.

• People – Check on customer and employee headlines and issues.

• To-dos – Check that the previous week’s commitments by the team are done.

• Issues – Identifying, discussing, and solving problems and opportunities.

• Conclude – Reminder of new to-dos. Cascading any information that affects the rest of the business.

The EOS meeting pulse offers a structured and disciplined approach to conducting meetings within a business.

Initially, when you introduce it to a company, some people will love it, and others will hate it.

Eventually, it clicks for everyone.

I’ll keep sharing how we run these meetings more in-depth as we continue this series next week.

Stay tuned.