The world's fastest workshop – took just ten minutes!

One day before the meeting Vocean created an activity on its idea platform. The question participants were asked to contemplate was: "How do you think the way we work will change after Covid-19"? All participants were invited to generate ideas for the activity via email and LinkedIn. That very same evening a large number of ideas had already been submitted to the platform – ideas that were visible for everyone to see. Vocean began the Speaker of the Week segment at the BNI meeting with a three-minute presentation of the company and its vision. Participants were then divided into seven breakout rooms, where they could discuss the ideas that had been submitted to the platform before the meeting. The platform is easy to navigate, and its workboard makes hundreds of ideas visible to everyone. During the breakout room discussions, several new ideas emerged that were also entered into the idea platform by the participants themselves and made instantly visible to everyone in the meeting. Only the idea is visible on the platform, not the creator of the idea. This is done to ensure participants aren't influenced by the personality behind an idea – but rather the idea itself. After just three minutes in the breakout rooms all the participants were asked to like – give the thumbs up – to three ideas on the platform. The breakout room sessions came to an end, and participants returned to the meeting for a four-minute summary. The ideas that were shortlisted were discussed, and Vocean started a poll on the platform to determine which one of them the participants liked best.