The surprising science of meetings : how you can lead your team to peak performance / Steven G. Rogelberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rogelberg, Steven G., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Business communication.

Meetings.

Leadership.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (180 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]

Summary:

A recent estimate suggests that employees endure a staggering 55 million meetings a day in the United States. This tremendous time investment yields only modest returns. No organization made up of human beings is immune from the all-too-common meeting gripes: those that fail to engage, those that inadvertently encourage participants to tune out, and those that blatantly disregard participants' time.Most companies and leaders view poor meetings as an inevitable cost of doing business. But managers can take heart: researchers now have a clear understanding of the key drivers that make meetings successful. In The Surprising Science of Meetings, Steven G. Rogelberg, researcher and consultant to some of the world's most successful companies, draws from extensive research, analytics and data mining, and survey interviews with over 5,000 employees across a range of industries to share the proven practices and techniques that help managers and employees enhance the quality of their meetings. For those who lead and participate in meetings, Rogelberg provides immediate direction, guidance, and relief, offering a how-to guide to change your working life starting today.

Contents:

Preface

Setting the meeting stage

So many meetings and so much frustration

Get rid of meetings? no, solve meetings through science

Evidence-based strategies for leaders

The image in the mirror is likely wrong

Meet for 48 minutes

Agendas are a hollow crutch

The bigger, the badder

Don't get too comfortable in that chair

Deflate negative energy from the start

No more talking!

The folly of the remote call-in meeting

Putting it all together

Epilogue: trying to get ahead of the science' using science

Tool: meeting quality self-assessment

Tool: sample engagement survey and 360 feedback questions on meetings

Tool: good meeting facilitation checklist

Tool: huddle implementation checklist

Tool: agenda template

Tool: guide to taking good meeting minutes/notes

Tool: expectations assessment

Acknowledgments

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-068923-4

0-19-068922-6