927: Fixing One-on-One Meetings Improves (almost) Everything with Dr. Steven Rogelberg
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 11 January 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Steven Rogelberg explains why one-on-one meetings are so critical—and shares best practices for both managers and employees.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) Why having more one-on-ones actually saves time
2) How to create a meeting agenda that works
3) The right way to ask your manager for help
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— ABOUT STEVEN —
Dr. Steven G. Rogelberg, an organizational psychologist, holds the title of Chancellor’s Professor at UNC Charlotte for distinguished national, international and interdisciplinary contributions. He is an award-winning teacher and recipient of the very prestigious Humboldt Award for his research on meetings. Adam Grant has called Steven the “world’s leading expert on how to fix meetings”.
Dr. Rogelberg’s previous book, The Surprising Science of Meetings: How You Can Lead Your Team to Peak Performance (Oxford) has been on over 25 “best of” lists including being recognized by the Washington Post as the #1 leadership book to watch for.
He was the inaugural winner of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) Humanitarian Award and just finished his term as President of SIOP, the largest professional organization in the world for I-O psychology.
• Book: Glad We Met: The Art and Science of 1:1 Meetings
• Website: StevenRogelberg.com
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Book: The Postmortal by Drew Magary
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to be Awesome at Your Job Podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | This is the one meeting that should not be an email. |
| 0:09.0 | The research is clear and powerful. |
| 0:13.4 | Leaders who do one-on-one meetings well, |
| 0:16.4 | the gains are tremendous. |
| 0:18.9 | We see it positively affecting employee experience, |
| 0:22.2 | employee engagement, even retention of your top talent, |
| 0:27.4 | this is not an optional activity. |
| 0:29.8 | This is a core requirement of leadership. |
| 0:34.0 | Everyone is craving, feeling seen, and one-on-one's |
| 0:37.8 | are the mechanism. |
| 0:38.7 | One-on-ones are an investment of time |
| 0:41.1 | that actually saves you time. This is a core activity of being a leader. |
| 0:47.0 | That's Dr. Stephen Rolkelberg. He's been called the world's leading expert on how to fix meetings, |
| 0:53.0 | and Adam Grant even said, |
| 0:54.2 | Stephen Rolkelberg knows more about how to improve meetings |
| 0:57.4 | than anyone on Earth. |
| 0:59.4 | Stephen spent a whole lot of time, many years, |
| 1:02.3 | researching how to make meetings more efficient and |
| 1:04.2 | engaging and today he's going to help us fix the one-on-one meeting. So you'll learn |
| 1:08.3 | one why having more one-on-one's actually saves time to how to create a meeting agenda that works and three the |
| 1:15.0 | right way to ask your manager for help. I'm Peebukitis this is how to be awesome at your job and now |
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