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How to have a meeting that isn't a complete waste of time with Prof Steven Rogelberg

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Are the meetings you lead not actually getting enough done? Are you worried that participants are leaving them feeling annoyed? If so, then this episode is for you.

Professor Steven Rogelberg is an organisational psychologist, an award-winning author and the world’s leading expert on workplace meetings. He is an award-winning teacher with over 200 publications and has been cited well-over 12,000 times in the academic literature. Steven’s keynotes on meetings span the globe and occur at the world’s leading organisations such as Google, Facebook, Amazon, Pfizer, Cisco, Bank of America, PayPal, The United Nations, and many more.

His book, The Surprising Science of Meetings: How You Can Lead Your Team to Peak Performance has been on over 25 “best of” lists including being recognized by the Washington Post as the #1 leadership book to watch for. To top it off, Adam Grant has called Steven the “world’s leading expert on how to fix meetings”.

In this episode Steven shares:

-        🔍 How to figure out if something should actually be a meeting and who needs to be invited to it

-        🎯 The common traits that make an effective meeting leader and the mistakes we make that can derail a meeting

-        🎉 Some unusual and unique techniques you can use to liven up your meetings

-        🤖 The role of AI in meetings and what you should and shouldn’t use it for

-        📋 What you need to do before and after a meeting to ensure maximum success

 

Key Quotes:

“One of the best predictors of the mood of a meeting is the mood of the leader coming into the meeting.”

“We act with intentionality all the time when we're meeting with important stakeholders, but we don’t act with intentionality when it comes to meeting with our peers.”

“The characteristic of really good meeting leaders is they understand that meetings need an ending.”

Connect with Steven via his website and linkedin.

 

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