# Less Meeting for Leadership Teams

Source: https://lessmeeting.com/for/leadership-teams/

A KPI scorecard that lives on your weekly leadership meeting, with a trend line for every number and team analytics on what your meetings cost.

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Less Meeting for leadership and ops teams. The KPI scorecard lives on the weekly leadership meeting itself, each KPI trends across the quarter, and an off-target number can be assigned to an owner before the meeting ends.

## What it addresses

- The weekly leadership meeting runs long and covers whatever came up loudest that morning
- Numbers get read out from a spreadsheet, so nobody sees the trend
- Decisions from weeks ago never got revisited
- No data to answer "why does the company spend so much time in meetings?"

## The scorecard

- Attach the KPIs your leadership team runs on (revenue, pipeline, churn, headcount) to the recurring meeting
- Set a threshold on any KPI so an off-track number is visible at a glance
- Each KPI charts across all past occurrences of the meeting, showing direction over a quarter
- Turn an off-target number into an action item with an owner and date, in the meeting; it carries into the next occurrence until closed
- Guide: [how to run a weekly leadership team meeting](/blog/weekly-leadership-team-meeting.md); free [leadership meeting agenda template](/tools/meeting-agenda-templates.md)

## Meeting cost & analytics

- Team Analytics reports total meeting time and dollar cost across the team
- Anonymous feedback from attendees
- An automatic score on every meeting based on agenda, timing and follow-through, calculated from how the meeting ran; nothing is recorded
- Attendee efficiency ratings per meeting
- A [free meeting cost calculator](/tools/meeting-cost-calculator.md) to run the math before signing up

## Follow-through

- Assign an owner and due date during the meeting
- Automated reminders chase the owner
- Open items from every past occurrence surface again in today's view
- Two-way sync with Microsoft 365 and Google Tasks

See also: [action item tracking software](/action-item-tracking-software.md).

## Proof

- 91K+ recurring meetings and 1:1s given a structure
- ~13% shorter than planned, for the median timed meeting
- 72% of timed meetings finish on time or early

## FAQ

**How is this different from putting our scorecard in a spreadsheet?** The spreadsheet holds the numbers; it doesn't hold the meeting. In Less Meeting the KPIs live on the recurring meeting and trend across every occurrence. An off-target number can be assigned to someone on the spot, and it stays on next week's agenda until they close it.

**Can we see what our meetings cost?** Yes. Team Analytics reports total meeting time and dollar cost across the team, so you can point at a specific recurring meeting and decide whether it's earning its place.

**Does a bot join our leadership meetings to record them?** No. Nothing joins the call and nothing is recorded or transcribed. Notes are written by the people in the room, encrypted, and visible only to those you share them with.

**What does it cost for a leadership team?** The Team plan is $5.90 per user monthly, or $4.90 per user billed yearly. Seats are purchased in groups of 10. Every plan starts with a free 14-day trial and no credit card, and you can invite your whole team into the trial.

**Do we have to change how we run the meeting?** No. Less Meeting syncs with Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace in real time, so the meeting stays on the calendar you already use; you add the agenda and scorecard to it.