291: Your Best Meeting Ever: Designing Collaboration That Actually Works with Rebecca Hinds

About this episode

Rebecca Hinds discusses how to design effective meetings that enhance collaboration and career growth.

What if meetings didn’t have to feel like a drain, but instead became one of the most powerful tools for collaboration and career growth? In this episode, I’m joined by Rebecca Hinds, organizational behavior expert and author of Your Best Meeting Ever: Seven Principles for Designing Meetings That Get Things Done . Rebecca shares how her early years as a competitive swimmer shaped her understanding of teamwork and why putting the team first ultimately elevates individual success. We explore the science of collaboration, what most organizations get wrong about meetings, and why so many well-intentioned efforts, including AI rollouts, fail due to human resistance rather than technical limitations. Rebecca explains the “4D rule” for deciding whether a meeting should even exist, how network science can transform career advancement, and why cognitive wandering is essential for innovation. If you’ve ever felt frustrated by inefficient meetings, skeptical about AI at work, or unsure how to position yourself for what’s next in your career, this conversation offers both research-backed insights and practical ways to rethink how you show up for your team and for yourself. In this week’s…

People in this episode

Host: Tammy Gooler Loeb

Guest: Rebecca Hinds

Topics covered

• meetings
• collaboration
• teamwork
• career growth
• organizational behavior
• AI in the workplace

Keywords

• meetings
• collaboration
• teamwork
• career advancement
• 4D rule
• cognitive wandering
• AI

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Dropbox

Books & works: Your Best Meeting Ever: Seven Principles for Designing Meetings That Get Things Done

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