Weekly Leadership Meeting
Definition
A weekly leadership meeting is a standing session — commonly 60 to 90 minutes, same day and same time each week — in which a leadership team reviews its numbers against target, checks progress on quarterly priorities, and works through whatever is blocking them. Its purpose is correction inside the quarter, not reporting at the end of it.
The structure is almost always fixed and time-boxed: a fast scan of the scorecard, a pass down the quarterly priorities marking each on-track or off-track, then the bulk of the hour spent on a short list of issues chosen from what those two segments surfaced. Anything that cannot be resolved in the room leaves as an action with an owner and a date, and the next week opens by checking those actions closed.
These meetings fail by filling with updates. When each attendee narrates their week, the hour is gone before the first real disagreement surfaces, and the items that genuinely needed a group decision slide to the following week and then the one after. The diagnostic is simple: count the decisions the meeting produced. A session that produced none was a status report held in expensive company.
Example
A seven-person leadership team meets 90 minutes every Monday: 5 minutes on a 12-row scorecard (2 rows off-target), 10 minutes on 4 quarterly priorities (1 off-track), 65 minutes on three issues chosen by vote, 10 minutes to confirm 9 action items with owners and dates.
See also: leadership meeting software