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The 60-Minute Meeting Agenda
One hour, four blocks, one rolling list. The weekly leadership meeting that turns "at risk" into a decision, an owner, and a due date.
Before the meeting
Bring two pages. Only two.
The scoreboard: every priority with one owner and a status. The rolling action list: every open commitment from prior weeks, with one owner and one due date. An item leaves it done, or killed on purpose.
The hour
Four blocks, timed.
- :00–:05 · Scoreboard. Statuses only: on track, at risk, or behind. No discussion, no defending.
- :05–:15 · Last week's list. Read every commitment aloud: done, or carried. Count them. Done ÷ total is the follow-through rate; say it to the room. Carried items get a fresh due date or get killed on purpose. Killed on purpose is fine. Vanishing is not.
- :15–:50 · Issues and decisions. Top three issues from the at-risk lines, three and not eleven, one at a time. Each ends one of two ways: a decision with an owner and a due date, or a plain statement of what's missing and who owns getting it.
- :50–:60 · Read-back and close. Read the new commitments back: action, owner, date. Log what was decided, and why. Close on: what does not need to come back next week?
Two rules make the hour work. The list rolls: never retype it, never let an item vanish.
One owner, one due date per line, because two owners is zero owners.
Worksheet: alinement.com/brief/tools/sixty-minute-agenda
Part of an ongoing series of tools for the weekly operating rhythm. Read the full story behind this one in Issue 10; the meeting-design argument is in Issue 6. Or browse every free tool.