# 1156: How to Make Great Meetings that Stop Wasting Time with Rebecca Hinds Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/how-to-be-awesome-at-your-job-956232/1156-how-to-make-great-meetings-that-stop-wasting-time-with-rebecca-hinds Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/how-to-be-awesome-at-your-job-956232/1156-how-to-make-great-meetings-that-stop-wasting-time-with-rebecca-hinds.md Podcast: [How to Be Awesome at Your Job](https://stenobird.com/podcast/how-to-be-awesome-at-your-job-956232) Published: 2026-05-28T06:30:00+00:00 Episode link: https://pdst.fm/e/prefix.up.audio/s/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/mgln.ai/e/211/pscrb.fm/rss/p/rss.art19.com/episodes/eb49c689-c748-4093-88d7-5b21d3050637.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIg90cmFuc2NyaWJyBjoGRVQ%3D--952c5701c84ad333c69d5faa668f8177091704f0 Audio file: https://pdst.fm/e/prefix.up.audio/s/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/mgln.ai/e/211/pscrb.fm/rss/p/rss.art19.com/episodes/eb49c689-c748-4093-88d7-5b21d3050637.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIg90cmFuc2NyaWJyBjoGRVQ%3D--952c5701c84ad333c69d5faa668f8177091704f0 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/how-to-be-awesome-at-your-job-956232/episodes/1156-how-to-make-great-meetings-that-stop-wasting-time-with-rebecca-hinds Duration seconds: 2247 ## Resource Rebecca Hinds discusses the simple shifts that turn meetings from time-wasters into value-generators. — YOU’LL LEARN —  1) Why most meetings don’t feel like “real work” 2) Why every organization needs a “meeting doomsday” 3) The easy agenda fixes that save so much time Subscribe or visit   AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep1156  for clickable versions of the links below.  — ABOUT REBECCA —  Rebecca Hinds is a leading expert on organizational behavior and the future of work. She holds a BS, MS, and PhD from Stanford University. Rebecca founded the Work Innovation Lab at Asana and the Work AI Institute at Glean, first-of-their-kind corporate think tanks dedicated to conducting cutting-edge research on the future of work. She is a trusted advisor to companies navigating the challenges of modern work—from meeting overload and hybrid dysfunction to the messy realities of AI adoption and organizational change. • Book: Your Best Meeting Ever: 7 Principles for Designing Meetings That Get Things Done • LinkedIn: Rebecca Hinds • Website: RebeccaHinds.com — RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —  • Tool: Glean • Book: Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success by Adam Grant • Book:  Scaling Up Excellence: Getting to More Without Settling for Less by Robert Sutton and Huggy Rao • Book: The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder by Robert Sutton and Huggy Rao • Past episode: 492: Making Meetings Work with J. Elise Keith • Past episode: 684: Achieving More by Tapping into the Science of Less with Leidy Klotz — THANK YOU SPONSORS! —  •  Scribe.  Book a personalized enterprise demo with  scribe.how/awesome •  Narwhal . Treat your home to spotless, fresh floors with  us.narw… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/how-to-be-awesome-at-your-job-956232/episodes/1156-how-to-make-great-meetings-that-stop-wasting-time-with-rebecca-hinds/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/how-to-be-awesome-at-your-job-956232/1156-how-to-make-great-meetings-that-stop-wasting-time-with-rebecca-hinds.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.