EP 202: Dr Steven Rogelberg - The High Performance Meeting Makeover

<p>An estimated 55 million meetings happen across the USA every day and 9 out of 10 employees admit to daydreaming during meetings. Forty seven percent said attending too many meetings is the No. 1 time waster. Dr Steven Rogelberg, author of <em>The Surprising Science of Meetings: How You Can Lead Your Team to Peak Performance</em> provides direction, smart tactics and a how-to guide to change your working life. Steven is the world’s leading expert on fixing meetings to stop wasting time and perform with better efficiency.</p> <ul> <li>The book's title is '<em>The Surprising Science of Meetings: How You Can Lead Your Team to Peak Performance'</em><em>.</em> What is peak performance?</li> <li>Why the science of, why not the research of? What does science tell us that research doesn’t?</li> <li>What does evidence tell us about the effectiveness of meetings today vs say 5 years ago?</li> <li>When we have meetings that are not fulfilling or empowering, how does that impact the company or team engagement?</li> <li>Have we gotten to a point where bad meetings are the expectation? Is it a self perpetuating thing?</li> <li>What's the residue following a bad or unproductive meeting?</li> <li>What would Steven put in a course on running meetings?</li> <li>Good stewards are committed to selfless service. Where does ego sit in a productive meeting?</li> <li>Should how we run a great meeting almost be part of the identity of a great leader?</li> <li>Steven has said he has seen himself as a scholar. How does that influence how he sees his work in the corporate landscape?</li> <li>Steven's best friend's dad once spoke with his father and that conversation taught him a valuable lesson. What lesson did he learn?</li> <li>There is a space between stimulus and response. In that space what would Steven hear?</li> <li>Many attendees if not the actual leader are late for meetings. What is the effect of lateness on the effectiveness of meetings?</li> <li>The DRI Directly Responsible Individual is something Apple uses after each meeting