Steven Rogelberg

This highly interactive program brings a sharp and strategic light to an activity typically taken for granted – the meeting. A recent estimate suggests that employees endure a staggering 55 million meetings a day in the United States. Sadly, most meetings fail to engage us, or even worse, blatantly disregard our time.  There is now a meeting science that can bring learning and solutions forward to solve the meeting “problem.” Leaders are uniquely positioned to transform their organization and teams through innovative practices, metrics, and processes – all tied to meetings.

You will learn: What we know about meetings from an evidence-based perspective and gain knowledge and resources on how to effectively lead meetings to promote effectiveness and innovation. This includes discussion of some organizational practices including a meeting metrics dashboard.

Each keynote is highly customized to the audience. This talk can be adapted for nonprofits, leadership, or unconventional approaches to business.

For leaders to be successful they have to capitalize on the intellectual resources and diversity their employees bring to the team.  Unfortunately, research and first-hand experience reveals that teams do not always make high quality decisions.  Clear-headed decision-making gets clouded by incomplete dissemination and discussion of information, free-riding, groupthink, and premature consensus without considering all possible alternatives. Through interactive discussions, demonstrations, and hands-on activities, this workshop will discuss approaches to team discussions that minimize the aforementioned problems and maximize team potential and innovation. Methods for determining situations when unconventional approaches are warranted and how to encourage teams to try unconventional approaches are also discussed.

Overall, program participants will:

1. Discover powerful unconventional approaches for facilitating effective team decision making
2. Learn when unconventional approaches are warranted
3. How to promote “buy-in” and acceptance of unconventional ways of making decisions
4. Gain insight into factors that undermine team effectiveness.

In order to effectively and dynamically lead an organization and team, individuals first must be able to lead themselves.  Self-talk, or the internal dialog individuals use, is at the heart of self-leadership.  Creating a habit of constructive self-talk unlocks new heights of success in leaders.  Using data collected from over 200 C-Suite leaders, constructive self-talk has been found to drive effective leadership of others, employee engagement, innovation, and personal well-being.  In this workshop, you will:

1. Be introduced to contemporary paradigms of leadership effectiveness.
2. See evidence of how leader self-talk impacts success indicators and personal well-being.
3. Garner insights into your personal self-talk strategies and the potential implications of your approaches.
4. Discuss a process for identifying, changing and leveraging self-talk for yourself and in those you lead.
5. Engage in exercises to promote the adoption of constructive self-talk practices that foster success.

Employee engagement is a key drive of individual and organization effectiveness. Research demonstrates a strong link between employees’ experiences in meetings and their overall feelings of engagement.  In other words, meetings done wrong serve to drain engagement.  However, meetings done well, actually become places of engagement gain.  Namely, meetings led effectively can not only promote engagement in a meeting, but even more importantly everyday engagement outside of the meeting.  You will learn what we know about meetings from an evidence-based perspective and gain knowledge and resources on how to effectively lead meetings to promote engagement as well as how organizations can create a culture around meetings so that enterprise employee engagement is fostered.

Complaints and frustrations around meetings abound.  What many leaders don’t realize is that in addition to better meetings promoting team and organization success, it is also essential to their personal success as leaders.   Meetings are where talent comes together.  Leaders that are not effective at fully leveraging, working with others, and working through others, are at a high risk for derailment.  Effective meeting leadership skills are essential to leader success and upward mobility.  You will learn what we know about meetings from an evidence-based perspective and gain knowledge and resources on how to effectively lead meetings to promote teamwork, engagement, and innovation.  Also covered is how organizations can create a culture around meetings so that leader success is promoted.

To fully gain the tremendous benefits of diversity, it must be partnered with genuine inclusion.  Meetings are a key mechanism to bring inclusion to life. Meetings done right allows unique perspectives. Backgrounds, and viewpoints to be leveraged in ways that promote innovation, engagement, and excellent decision making.  Meeting done wrong derails inclusion and ultimately the potential of diversity goes unrealized.   You will learn what we know about meetings from an evidence-based perspective and gain knowledge and resources on how to effectively lead meetings to promote inclusion and effectiveness as well as how organizations can create an engaging culture around meetings so that the incredible power of diversity can be unleashed.