Why Meetings Go Wrong (And How to Fix Them)

Meetings often drain our joy and sap our focus-–and meeting overload kills productivity. So why do we have so many of them– and is a better world possible? Adam investigates the science of improving meetings and explores how workplaces are fighting meeting bloat. Available transc ...  Show more

Managers all over the world facilitate meetings every day, but how many managers facilitate meetings well? The goal of facilitating a meeting is to create a space so that everyone can participate effectively. This may not come naturally to some managers, but it’s a skill that ...

WorkLife with Adam Grant, another podcast from the TED Audio Collective is back! This season, Adam takes a look at how to find meaningful work and how to make jobs more energizing. In this first episode: meetings. Meetings often drain our joy and sap our focus — and meeting overl ...  Show more

Why are most meetings so awful?

A lot of us leave every meeting feeling like we've wasted our time and gotten nowhere on a problem -- only to get back to our desks farther behind on our "real jobs."

But with a little intention, we can make meetings not just produ ...