Course Description:

This course will give students a more in-depth understanding of how to apply meeting science directly to organizational and workplace meetings. Students will learn about various meeting design components that can influence meeting outcomes. Students will also learn about meeting leader and attendee behaviors as well as effective reflection techniques of their own meeting behaviors

What you will do in this course:

• Explore what makes an effective meeting
• Discuss how to apply meeting science to enhance meetings

What materials you will explore:

• Mroz, J. E., Allen, J. A., Verhoeven, D. C., & Shuffler, M. L. (2018). Do we really need another meeting? The science of workplace meetings. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 27(6), 484-491.
• Lehmann-Willenbrock, N., Rogelberg, S. G., Allen, J. A., & Kello, J. E. (2018). The critical importance of meetings to a leader and organizational success. Organizational Dynamics, 47(1), 32-36.
• Allen, J. A., Lehmann-Willenbrock, N., & Rogelberg, S. (2015, July). An introduction to the Cambridge handbook of meeting science. In The Cambridge handbook of meeting science (pp. 3-11). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
• Olien, J. L., Rogelberg, S. G., Lehmann-Willenbrock, N., & Allen, J. A. (2015, July). Exploring meeting science. In The Cambridge handbook of meeting science (pp. 12-19). Cambridge.
• Lehmann-Willenbrock, N., Allen, J. A., & van Vugt, M. (2020, March). The Origins and Evolutionary Significance of Team Meetings in Organizations.In Managing Meetings in Organizations. Emerald
• Reed, K. M., & Allen, J. A. (2021).?Suddenly Virtual: Making Remote Meetings Work. John Wiley & Sons

Course Structure:

Course is designed to be taken Online and Self-Guided.

The time length of each course is 2-Hours.

You will have 30-days to complete all course requirements from the date you receive the enrollment confirmation with the link to access the course online.

Please note that there are two meeting effectiveness courses offered - The Science of Meeting Effectivness and The Practice of Effective Meetings. Each course costs $125 to enroll in, or $200 for both. Students will need to enroll in both courses and pay $100 for each to claim the discount. Students who select the $100 fee but do not register for both courses will not be given access to the Canvas course materials until the full payment amount is received.

After payment is received in full, you will be added to an online Canvas course within 10 buisness days of registration. The link to access the course will be sent to the same email address used to register. If you do not recieve the link within 10 buisness days, please email jessicagardner4@weber.edu. Time to complete the course begins from the date the link to acces the course is sent.  

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