Dr. Steven G. Rogelberg

This session has the following primary goals: 1. Changing meeting culture starts with each leader running their meetings in the most effective/inclusive manner possible. This is not only key for maximizing productivity but given that leader practices become normative for others, it is critical that the practices that cascade informally down the organization are optimal. Leveraging the science of meetings, evidence-based approaches to running meetings, and preventing meeting overload, will be discussed and illustrated. 2. Within every organization, an implicit and explicit meeting ecosystem exists. This ecosystem drives meeting load/demands and meeting practices. To address the importance of examining and altering the ecosystem to support meeting excellence leaders will learn what and how to implement new standards and approaches to meetings with their teams designed to maximize meeting quality, but also return time to their teams through decreased meeting activity, decreased meeting sizes, and decreased meeting time.