Now anyone with a smart device and participate at the meeting.

Laptops
IPads
Smart Phones
Tablets
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Sometimes you want everyone to participate and other times you want the audience to work in small groups.

There is an art and a science to this work. In the end every meeting is an unfolding story, and every character represents a voice that can be heard.

- Everyone could speak at your next meeting?
- Everyone would speak at your next meeting?

- Every thought could be captured?
- Every thought could be examined?
- Every thought could be evaluated?

- You could actually see the "group mind?

- Your meeting embraced interactivity?
- Your meeting encouraged real time feedback?
- Your audience really felt engaged?

All of this is possible…and more!

Not only does The Hive close distances. It also collapses the time dimension as well.

- You can have your attendees add their thoughts before a meeting.
- They can interact at the meeting face-to-face, or over any distance.
- They can add their thoughts to the conversation after the meeting.

Engagement is a process. The facilitator with the meeting leader can DESIGN engagement into the meeting process and help to create iterative and progressive conversations that lead to extraordinary results.

Sticky notes take too much time.

The notes are hard to read
Engagement is note limited. It is hard to comment on notes - they become frozen.
It's facilitator dependent and facilitator driven.

The Hive moves beyond all of this. Ideas can be easily edited, by the group. They can be sorted, prioritized, and voted on - instantly by the whole group.

Set the hive to anonymous, and turn on commenting and you add ease and speed to your brainstorm. More ideas, better ideas, and greater buy-in.

Dot voting is engaging, no question. But it is also slow.
- Participants can lose interest.
- Early dot placement can influence later dot placement.
- Counting can be tedious.
- Votes have to be scribed.

The Hive enables the group to:
- Check votes - spread a number of checks or any number of items.
- Rank order a list of items - total input from the group.
- Add comments to explain why members voted the way they did.
- Participate anonymously or signed.

No more need for any of these.

Save the paper.
Save the time.
Save the money.

The Hive:
- Create any kind of survey you need.
- Eliminate Survey Monkey and brand your own.

- Likert scales, radio buttons, choose many, prioritize, add thoughts with text.
- Instant stats: mean, standard deviation, download to XL spreadsheets instantly.

Feedback is experienced differently in THE Hive.
- Feedback is instant and from everyone. It can be anonymous or signed.
- Feedback can come from those in the room or those overseas. It can be tailored to the session or to the overall meeting.

Participants can reflect on the process and their work the day following a meeting. It can be structured to be delivered over time as the meeting results cascade through out the organization.

As we say, Feedback is an acquired taste, adding a new and powerful dimension to your meetings.

The Hive can unite the group through Voting.
Usually we think of voting as divisive. Not so in The Hive. Votes can take many forms.
- Confidence Votes - to assess how confident we all are on this strategy.
- Votes can prioritize - Which of the many should we work on?

- Votes can help us choose alternatives, identify our concerns, and make our reasons explicit. Every vote can be followed by a text box for helping to explain the vote.
One client explained Hive Voting as a powerful paradox. Voting is our sword that cleaves ideas together."

Voting can be here and now or extended over time.

Hive meetings flow. They build slowly and they are designed to be consensus seeking meetings.

Often we strive to move past consensus by converging our ideas and moving to Concordance.

Concordance means that everyone is in, everyone can have a veto. We listen carefully to the idea and to learn the thoughts behind the idea.

The Hive produces agreements with the greatest amount of buy-in. And in the rare case where we can't agree we all know why and we can further work from there.

Commitment is based on Truth Telling, Choice, and Self Awareness.

The Hive delivers real information, timely and clearly. It enables all to see the Group Truth and to commit to making our collected ideas come into being.

A committed group is unstoppable. It is relentless; it is agile and open. A committed group will find a way.

Culture eats strategy for breakfast. Cultivating the practice of really seeing reality and then taking decisive action creates a strong vibrant culture. Once people learn to work this way, they won't go back.

To the participant, Hive meetings become experiences that are marked by ease and speed.

- Thoughts are collected, presented, processed and saved.
- Truth is written, published, recorded, and saved.
- Actions are planned, owned, charted and pursued.
- Meetings are faster, more enjoyable, better attended, and remembered.
- Results are real.

And thank you for your attention.