Meetings Suck—Here are the Science-Backed Ways to Fix Them
In this episode, Kaila and Kyle are joined by Rebecca Hinds, PhD, author of Your Best Meeting Ever: 7 Principles for Designing Meetings That Get Things Done. Rebecca breaks down the science behind why meetings so often fail—and shares research-backed tactics to decide which meetings are actually worth having, and how to design them for better outcomes.
00:00 Intro
02:36 Why do meetings suck?
03:47 Meeting Doomsday
05:40 Determining which meetings are actually useful
08:03 Considering remote employees
10:11 Making better meeting agendas
13:53 How to stop attendance inflation
16:13 How to manage the dominant speaker in a meeting
19:48 The “meeting-free day” debate
23:30 The value of a pre-read
25:55 Game: So Crazy It Just Might Work
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