MeetingSphere simply side steps the issue by providing assured anonymity on demand whenever the leader of a meeting requires full disclosure and open mindedness. Participants get this immediately: Hot issues are shared directly - no warming up required. Ideas, opinions or facts are discussed on merit alone. This is a fundamentally liberating and deeply satisfying experience. It also produces results that hold water, reliably and fast.
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Sticky dots
You can specify up to 3 sticky dots (MeetingSphere Pro: 5) by color, quantity and meaning and whether they can be placed on topics or comments or both. Allocation can occur 'privately' meaning that participants are blind to the allocations of others while they place their dots of 'joint' meaning that placements or withdrawals are immediately visible to all.
This enables a host of of powerful use cases where comments can be prioritized or flagged in context. For instance, to avoid wasting time by participants laboring on points that are clear enough, you could use sticky dots to focus the attention on the group on comments that require more info or substantiation. Participants could then withdraw their dots once their information needs are satisfied.
Discussion prompts
With MeetingSphere Pro, you can structure discussions with 'prompts' to ensure that participants think of and cover relevant aspects.
This is especially useful when the outcomes of a meeting or workshop feed into predefined 'next steps' or templates or systems.
Automatic Documentation - Export
Like all MeetingSphere workspaces, Discussion is self-documenting.
Discussions are, of course, included in the meeting report which is available instantly as a Word document. For follow-up processing with other applications, export the data as a text file.