The GroupMind and Thought Capture

Ipads and Smart Phones can lead to some very creative ways to up the participation at your next meeting.

Have everyone attending link their device to The Hive. In The Hive, set up a simple thought capture page. A one-liner for thoughts that are triggered by the speaker. Thoughts from everyone accumulate as the speaker progresses.

As the facilitator - set the Hive Page to Anonymous and private, so only you can see the GroupMind. As people enter their thoughts help the team create a good norm  by censoring out any blatantly ridiculous ideas that appear. You will only have to do this once  as folks will get the message. And the senders, anonymous as they are will thank you later.

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At the end of the presentation, with the OK of the presenter (you have contracted with him or her beforehand), display the thoughts from GroupMind

Often their will be a few questions that the presenter can answer right away, that didn’t get asked during the presentation. Often there will be some amazing insights about the topic, or nuances, not presented that give the presetner and the team pause.

This is a different way of attending meetings. It gives an eerie meditative quality to a presentation. Like in meditation, just let the thoughts flow by. Afterwards you have a chance at additional insights. Give it a try. My clients love it, and we have had several significant breakthroughs through the use of this technique.