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Jan 2024
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927: Fixing One-on-One Meetings Improves...

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About this episode

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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