Download PDF The Surprising Science of Meetings How You Can Lead Your Team to Peak Performance Steven G Rogelberg 9780190689216 Books
⧫ One of the ten Leadership books to watch in 2019 —The Washington Post ⧫ One of the top business books everybody will be reading in 2019 — Business Insider ⧫ As seen on “CBS This Morningâ€â§« “In workplaces around the world, meetings are where productivity and creativity go to die. Steven Rogelberg is the world’s leading expert on how to fix them, and here he shares the best evidence on how we can stop wasting time and falling victim to groupthink.†—Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Give and Take 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.
Download PDF The Surprising Science of Meetings How You Can Lead Your Team to Peak Performance Steven G Rogelberg 9780190689216 Books
"Dr. Steven Rogelberg's book on the Surprising Science of Meetings is a refreshing, fun, easy-to-follow and utilize guide to how to make meetings something people enjoy rather than dread. Steven strikes the right tone to stay true to the scientific literature and present it in a clear and actionable way. You can read this book this weekend and have more successful, productive, efficient, and fun meetings starting on Monday! I just put some of the tools in this book into place this afternoon in a restructured meeting format. We got done with everything on time and feeling energized!"
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The Surprising Science of Meetings How You Can Lead Your Team to Peak Performance Steven G Rogelberg 9780190689216 Books Reviews
- Most business meetings suck—time, energy and joy out of most of us. In a key survey of workers, “too many meetings,†surfaced as the critical time waster cited by 47% of those surveyed. But it doesn’t have to be that way and Steven Rogelberg tells us how to avoid that by creating fresh, thoughtful agendas, limiting the size and time of meetings, introducing silence to meetings, deflating negativity with positivity and productivity, and a host of tips based on fascinating, even entertaining research. He introduces readers to terms like social loafing, cultural tax, huddle meetings. Finally, he offers a raft of tools in the appendix to help navigate and improve team meetings. This book should be required reading for any leader with a pulse!
- Steven Rogelberg's The Surprising Science of Meetings is a breath of fresh air among the myriad leadership and management books out there. That's because this book is based upon a solid foundation of social science, which then flows naturally into actionable recommendations. In my numerous conversations with executives and MBA students over the years, I've heard my fair share of complaints about meetings. I will certainly be sharing this book with them as a timeless resource. Readers will be pleased to find that the book has plenty of data to back up its main points, yet simultaneously offers key takeaways at the end of each chapter. The book also has a number of useful tools and quick references at the end, presented in an easy-to-use format that any leader could start using immediately. Highly recommended!
- Steven Rogelberg has written a highly approachable, useful book aimed at making meetings more effective. The book clearly lays out why most people groan at the thought of yet one more meeting, and provides techniques and tips for improving meetings. I thought it was really important that these tips and techniques are based on years of research by the author himself and by others in the field, and that this research occurred in many different settings (e.g., lab studies, field studies, surveys, etc.). It's important to know that this book doesn't argue for a one-size-fits-all "prescription" for meetings, rather that there are things meeting leaders need to think about and do before, during, and after meetings that will help. I found a lot to like about this book, so it is difficult to pick a favorite tip, but the two chapters I find myself thinking about now having finished the book are the one on agendas and the one on remote call-in meetings. My department uses agendas for all meetings, but this chapter has given me ideas for improving them. And, increasingly, we find people want to call in to meetings, but this is rarely effective. If you lead meetings at your organization, you'll appreciate Rogelberg's book.
- This book is excellent for two reasons (1) it's extremely accessible... designed to make it super easy to pick up actionable tidbits to start making your meetings more effective, and (2) it's based on actual research, not just some joker's idea of what will "take your meetings to the next level." Dr. Rogelberg provides great examples, but not so many to make the book feel overly long or inflated. I love the "takeaways" at the end of each chapter, and the toolkit at the end of the book.
- As someone who has been in the corporate minutiae of day to day meetings where I was sometimes lucky to get a 15-minute break over the course of a 9-hour day, Steven Rogelberg's book was practical, thought-provoking, and even had me laughing with its inserts of humor. By treating meetings as events (like a wedding) where one takes pause to consider others and their time and to think about the details, flow and experience, Steven begins to demonstrate how we can all make a huge impact on the modern work day. I appreciated how the book included a nice balance between science and practice, including valuable tools throughout and summaries at the end of each chapter. As a leadership development professional who has both lived in the daily world of meetings and coaches and develops executives, this is a book that will be on my list of recommendations to friends, colleagues, and clients.
- As someone who both attends and leads a significant number of meetings each week, I placed a lot of hope in this book. It did not disappoint. Dr. Rogelberg calls out the need to evaluate and improve meetings, without diminishing their value. We need meetings to give team members voice and to enhance our decision making and implementation. This book highlights recognizable pitfalls (Parkinson’s law!) and provides a range of practical and reasonable tools to call upon to accomplish these goals without wasting time. I even gained insight into how I can be a better participant. Unexpectedly, it was refreshing to see some of the things my organization is already doing right – gold stars for food and laughter. This book needs to be on more shelves.
- The Internet is full of conflicting and misleading advice on meetings. This book is a great source baked by research that you can trust. A must-read for anyone is regularly organizing meetings. And please, PLEASE cancel your next meeting that doesn't have any open agenda topics!
- Dr. Steven Rogelberg's book on the Surprising Science of Meetings is a refreshing, fun, easy-to-follow and utilize guide to how to make meetings something people enjoy rather than dread. Steven strikes the right tone to stay true to the scientific literature and present it in a clear and actionable way. You can read this book this weekend and have more successful, productive, efficient, and fun meetings starting on Monday! I just put some of the tools in this book into place this afternoon in a restructured meeting format. We got done with everything on time and feeling energized!