Product Overview
If You're Looking For:...
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A way to significantly improve any meeting environment, either in a face to face or virtual setting.
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A way to reduce costs by reducing the need to travel.
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A way to allow employees to work from home or their office
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A way to get your introverts to speak up and contribute the great ideas you know they are hatching
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A way to evaluate ideas objectively so that there is buy-in to the decision
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A way to make meetings more interactive and engaging
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A way to instantly document this productive conversation
Then FacilitatePro is for you.
Flipcharts are NOT dead. Using each participants own phone, tablet or computer, FacilitatePro instead recreates them into something much more powerful, flexible and truly conducive to a collaborative meeting environment.
Our software allows groups to have productive conversations by sharing, organizing and prioritizing ideas either in a face to face or virtual, multi-location settings. With FacilitatePro your face to face meetings are dramatically more productive. When travel costs or safety are an issue, FacilitatePro easily supports virtual meeting and working, collaborative environments. You can set up any number of topics ahead of time or dynamically during a session. Invite people to come in and post their ideas or comment on others’ ideas. They can join at the same time or a time of their convenience. FacilitatePro brings people together in a virtual or face-to-face meeting and lets the power of anonymity allow everyone, even the introverts, to contribute their thoughts. For groups which prefer, ideas can be attributed - your meeting, your choice.
Once you have a rich list of ideas, you can edit, combine and categorize them as a group, or do it yourself later. Take the temperature of your group with a thumbs up vote or use sophisticated default or customized decision-making criteria to evaluate and identify the ideas most worth pursuing. FacilitatePro brings people together to collaborate anywhere, anytime and from virtually any device.
Capture Ideas with Brainstorm
Everything starts with ideas. Sometimes you want your group to brainstorm freely, sometimes you want to structure a discussion. Either way, your goal is to end up with the most complete list that represents everyone’s best thinking. With FacilitatePro, everyone posts their ideas anonymously to the Electronic Flip Chart, where they are shared with everyone else. Individuals post ideas at their own pace, which accommodates people with different styles and backgrounds.
Organize ideas with Categorize
As you look at the list of ideas, certain ideas will start to “belong together” because they represent themes or a common Big Idea. Click on the Category action tab, name your categories, and drag ideas into the desired category “buckets”. When you are done, the flipchart is neatly organized with ideas listed by category. If you want to have a more structured discussion, create the categories ahead of time and let people categorize their own ideas as they go. You can even easily use our drag and drop categorization option to quickly categorize you items individually or as a group.
Prioritize ideas with Thumbs Up
When you want to take the temperature of the group, and maybe create a “short list” for further discussion, use the Thumbs Up feature to take a quick poll. Now your list is organized by number of thumbs up votes and it’s easy to identify the ideas worth taking a closer look.
Evaluate and select ideas with Vote
When it comes time to evaluate the ideas, select one of many voting methods to give the group the opportunity to vote individually and privately. Choose among checkbox, ranking, rating, agreement scales, “dots”, true/false or multi-criteria such as cost/benefit or impact/feasibility, whatever method helps your group come to an objective decision.
Decide with Results
Share the results of the vote with the group. The list of ideas is ordered by highest average score, making the strongest candidates easy to identify. Click to display a vote distribution graph to see the degree of consensus.