Meetings Don’t Have to Suck: Learn a Better Way to Create & Collaborate | with Dr. Steven Rogelberg

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Ep261: Meetings Don’t Have to Suck: Learn a Better Way to Create and Collaborate | with Dr. Steven Rogelberg
My guest today is Dr. Steven Rogelberg who is an organizational psychologist and author of the new book, Glad We Met: The Art and Science of 1:1 Meetings, and according to Adam Grant, Dr. Rogelberg “knows more about how to improve meetings than anyone on earth.” He has helped a number of leading organizations including Google, Facebook, Amazon, Pfizer and Warner Brothers.
Now, we all know that meetings often get a bad rap and according to Dr. Rogelberg, it’s not just us. It’s bad everywhere. In this episode, Dr. Rogelberg and I dive into the underlying reasons why we struggle at meetings and why we still need to crack the code to have better meetings. We also talk about why meetings are so important in any organization, including the creative space, despite our collective aversion to it. More importantly, Dr. Rogelberg shares how you can reclaim your time, energy, and creativity using different strategies to make meetings productive, engaging, and even (dare I say) enjoyable.
Regardless of the industry you are in, my conversation with Dr. Rogelberg will help you transform your meetings from soul-sucking snooze-fests to dynamic hubs of productivity and collaboration so you can have the bandwidth to do great creative work.
Chapters:
00:01:59 | Why we struggle at meetings
00:03:08 | Why it’s hard to change the way we do meetings
00:07:55 | What makes meetings for creatives essentially similar to other industries
00:11:12 | The connective tissue that universally makes us bad at meetings
00:15:46 | How to build team cohesion and have better meetings (versus the other way around)
00:20:55 | The reasons why not everything can just be an email
00:28:24 | How to have better meetings (for creatives)
00:35:01 | Why meeting about meetings (and training on meetings) is important
00:38:32 | Conducting asynchronous meetings
00:44:23 | Making meetings more productive
00:46:57 | How remote work has changed since the pandemic
00:50:21 | Human interaction for 100% remote teams
00:53:32 | How to help make better meetings as an attendee
[RESOURCES MENTIONED]
Glad We Met: The Art and Science of 1:1 Meetings by Dr. Steven Rogelberg
Parkinson’s Law
Kairos
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