Steven Rogelberg

But just holding the meeting is not enough.

Steven Rogelberg, who studies one-on-ones and has written about them for Harvard Business Review, found that roughly half of these meetings aren't rated as good as they could be.

In his research, in fact, he couldn't find a single organization that trains its managers on how to run one.

Now, why should that worry you headed into review season? Well, McKinsey found that the number one reason people gave for quitting their last job was a lack of career development and advancement at 41%.

This is just our we've just fallen into these categories What advice or what have you seen in your extensive consulting work and research around how even to decide how long a meeting should be, optimal meeting time, and then more importantly, like, how do I know this meeting was successful? When I walk away, what metrics can I look at?

My colleague who I, I've been doing a lot of work with recently, uh, Steve, Steven Rogelberg, he's...

His research and, and other research as well suggests that there are two people who tend to leave meetings more satisfied than anyone else, and that is the person who spoke the most in the meeting, the person who, who hogged the airtime, and the organizer, right? Because the organizer had an opportunity to design the meeting in, in their best interest, and often they, they do that.

If we're thinking about treating meetings like a product, right, we should be evaluating meetings from the perspective of the users of that product, and those users are the attendees of the, of the meetings.

Yeah.

So there is an IO psychologist, Steven Rogelberg, excuse me, is an IO psychologist.

He is.

had wrote this book that a couple of years ago and he was like on the today show and stuff like that talking about like what the science of meetings is like and maybe we can get more in detail about that maybe even have steven on the episode on the podcast one day that'd be great but starting with an agenda and really thinking about with that agenda what are the things that the group of people in front of me actually have to do together like why am i bringing these people together what are the questions that have to be answered and when those questions those important questions where you need everybody together when those people are together and the questions have been answered the meeting is over

Yes.

So remember when this whole thing started out as just like a joke? Like, wouldn't it be funny if we had a pizza party like bosses and bad workplaces used to have pizza parties? And what started as a joke just quickly turned into a really great event where we had an opportunity to be in community with nonprofit leaders.

Other IO psychologists were there.

We got to just hang out with a lot of a lot of really cool people.