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Linked Activities – Take Your Group From Ideas to Decision

With MeetingSift you can link a Brainstorm activity to a Top Picks activity, taking your meeting participants from open-ended brainstorming to reaching a group decision in just a few minutes.

By linking activities, suggestions submitted in a Brainstorm activity automatically are imported as the options to choose from in a Top Picks activity. All you need to do is ask the initial Brainstorm question, then link it to a Top Picks activity, and MeetingSift takes care of the rest.

The Challenges of Multi-Step Group Processes

In meetings today, time is wasted when the meeting strays off topic or is simply delayed by administrative work or no progress is made by the end of the meeting. Meetings stray off course for many reasons but a big reason is a lack of process or flow to the meeting. Meetings that end with no measurable outcome need to be rescheduled to yet another meeting.

Today in a typical meeting as a team you may gather a bunch of ideas, write the ideas on the whiteboard or post it notes, take those ideas and prioritize them to take action on them. This process is usually done by a meeting organizer or note-taker, some ideas may be missed, and organization of them takes a lot of time. Even in the act of soliciting feedback not everyone’s voice or comments may be heard. Usually after all ideas are written and discussed, these ideas are then narrowed to a smaller list, or maybe organized. This process can also take a lot of time and without a strong meeting leader, this process may not move along and a desired outcome may not be achieved.

MeetingSift Makes It Quick & Easy

MeetingSift Linked Activities solves the tedious manual effort of writing, organizing and prioritizing by allowing you to create an effective flow to your meeting. By linking activities in your meeting to one another you allow one activity to capture and use information from the results of another activity. This bit of automation allows the meeting leader to facilitate rather than fumble and keeps your meetings flowing and moving.

Use MeetingSift to easily link your Brainstorm activity to a Top Picks activity, or link your Top Picks to a Quadrant. Our solution allows the meeting leader to elegantly create workflows that become automated. The meeting works as it should without any interruptions and you get to your intended outcome sooner.

Benefits of MeetingSift’s Linked Activities:

Automation – by linking two or more activities to one another the meeting leader can seamlessly guide the group through the process
Speed – meeting runs faster because of the efficiency of the process and natural workflow
Anonymity – all responses from participants can be anonymous which encourages more participation
Results – with the proper workflow enabled you get results

HOW TO:

Link Activities in MeetingSift

Link a Brainstorm Activity to a Top Pick Activity in 2 simple steps

Create your meeting as you normally would. Certain activities today you can link to one another (Brainstorm to Top Pick, Top Pick to Quadrant, etc.).

STEP 1: Create a Brainstorm Activity

STEP 2: Create a Top Picks Activity & Link it to the Brainstorm Activity

Check the box for “Use items/options from a previous activity”, then pick the Brainstorm Activity you created in step 1 from the drop down menu.

You have now linked the Brainstorm and the Top Pick activities, and when you run your meeting the Top Picks will automatically be populated with options submitted by the meeting participants to the previous Brainstorm.