Meetings, Leadership, and more!
This science/practice presentation discusses workplace meetings, shifting the conceptualization from utilitarian communication tools to a critical organizational and leadership phenomenon. An overview of scientific knowledge and key findings on workplace meeting will be presented. Leveraging leadership character traits, actionable implications designed to elevate the quality of time spent in meetings will be shared.
Dr. Steven G. Rogelberg holds the title of Chancellor’s Professor at UNC Charlotte for distinguished national, international, and interdisciplinary contributions. He is a Professor of Organizational Science, Management, and Psychology. He has over 200 publications, cited nearly 15000 times, addressing issues such as team effectiveness, leadership, engagement, health and employee well-being, meetings at work, and organizational research methods. Dr. Rogelberg has received over $2,500,000 of external grant funding including from the National Science Foundation. He has received multiple awards and honors, including the 2017 Humboldt Award, the inaugural Humanitarian Award from Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) and the SIOP Distinguished Service Award, Raymond A. Katzell Award for doing research that makes a difference for people and society, and has been recognized by Stanford University/Elsevier as a “World’s Top 2%" scientist for multiple years. Dr. Rogelberg is the current Co-Editor of the Journal of Business and Psychology, Past President of SIOP and past Secretary General of the Alliance for Organizational Psychology. His research has been profiled on television (CBS This Morning, BBC world, CNN), radio (e.g., NPR, FoxNews, CBC, CBS), newspapers (e.g., Chicago Tribune, LA Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, London Guardian), magazines (e.g., National Geographic, Forbes, Scientific American Mind) and major podcasts (e.g. Work Life with Adam Grant, Freakonomics). Rogelberg’s book, The Surprising Science of Meetings: How You Can Lead Your Team to Peak Performance (Oxford), was released in 2019, and has been on over 25 “best of” lists including being recognized by the Washington Post as the #1 leadership book to watch for in 2019. Rogelberg was invited and testified to the US Congress (2022) on the topic of being successful and engaging others in very difficult working environments – using organizational psychology to elevate members of congress, their staffs, and the institution.