1156: How to Make Great Meetings that Stop Wasting Time with Rebecca Hinds

You'll hear people talk about meetings as if they're not the real work. If we design meetings correctly, they should be the real work, right? They should move work forward. So often they're It's not the case because they're used performatively.

They're used as a box checking exercise and not a product that moves our work forward. You can take any dysfunctional meeting or any meeting that you know isn't fully optimized and pick one dimension, cut it in half, take that 30-minute meeting, try to run it for just 15 minutes, take that Six person meeting. What if it's three people? That's Rebecca Hines.

She's an expert on organizational behavior who advises companies on the challenges of the modern workplace, such as meeting overload and the messy realities of AI adoption. Rebecca is also the author of the best-selling book, Your Best Meeting Ever, seven principles for designing meetings that get things done. So you'll learn one, why most meetings don't feel like real work, two, why every organization needs a meeting doomsday. And three, the easy agenda fixes that save so much time.

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