Electronic Meetings
The Kolbe Company is pleased to offer assistance to teams, leaders and facilitators for electronic meetings. Participants use computers to brainstorm ideas, organize those ideas, and, with a vast array of rating tools, evaluate to help establish priorities to instantly see the results for group idea buy-in. Electronic meeting systems – by Mettingworks.com – allow participants to virtually all speak at the same time, offers those who are quiet, shy or embarrassed to have a voice in matters, and offers total anonymity when dealing with sensitive issues.
There are many proven benefits to the use of an electronic meeting system, including its use as an analysis tool, documentation, consensus building, and in acieving participant satisfaction. The ICA-Sacramento Regional Consortium has found that this system also provides the following benefits:- Provides an extremely powerful tool that include weighted criteria, cross impact analysis, rating and ranking.
- It allows for instantaneous documentation in both Word and HTML formats is available at the push of a button.
- A tool to gather ideas quickly, giving the group plenty of discussion time. Postsession surveys consistently show that participants felt they were more open and honest during our meetings because ideas were put forth and discussed without judgment or the influence of rank.
- It can be used as a polling tool to help quickly assess areas of consensus and areas of disagreement, so the group can move to action.
- Helps to reduce time to accomplish meeting objectives (approximately one-third of the normal meeting time). It is also possible for some or all of the participants to attend the meeting over the Internet, thus avoiding the costs of travel.
- Even meeting attendees who have never used a computer have been amazed at the ease of use and the productivity that they can achieve as a team.