Weekly Accountability Meeting (WAM)
A Weekly Accountability Meeting (WAM) is a short, standing meeting — typically 15–30 minutes — where individuals report their weekly execution scores, what worked, and what they will do differently. The agenda is scores, not status. Peer visibility, not management pressure, is the mechanism: people execute better when someone will see the number.
The WAM is the 12 Week Year's accountability engine, and it is deliberately unlike a status meeting. Nobody presents slides, nobody reports on projects. Each person answers three questions: what was your execution score, what did you learn from the week, and what will you do in the coming week? Five minutes per person, same time every week, no exceptions during the cycle.
The mechanism is mild, predictable social exposure. Knowing on Tuesday that four peers will see your score on Friday changes Tuesday — this is the same force that makes a running club more effective than a treadmill in the garage. Crucially, the WAM works best between peers; when it becomes a manager inspecting subordinates, honest scores are the first casualty, and honest scores are the entire value.
A four-person team's WAM might run Fridays at 9:00 for twenty minutes: scores in the first two minutes (already visible on a shared scoreboard), then the conversation goes wherever the lowest and highest scores point — a tactic that isn't working, a blocker someone else can remove, a commitment for next week said out loud.
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