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AllHands

All Hands on Deck and Engaged

Uniquely combining the collective wisdom of every employee with leadership to answer questions, the all-hands is the engine of organizational communications and culture.

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Crowdsource the genius of your people with highly interactive All-Hands Meetings

Centuries ago, sailors hewed to the idea that, on a ship, you used one hand for yourself and one hand for the ship. A “hand” gradually came to refer not just to the hands of the sailors doing the work, but to the sailors themselves. “Shout,” someone might call out, “and we will send another hand” – that is, another sailor.

When someone shouts “All hands on deck!”, it means everyone is needed, and there are crucial communications from the captain and other leaders to the crew. But the all-hands also lets the crew, or staff, ask questions of the leadership. Modern business uses the all-hands meeting in much the same way: for efficient, critical communications between leaders and team members.

The all-hands is arguably the second-most important meeting you can have, after your leadership meeting.

Why are All-Hands Meetings so Uniquely Powerful?

  • Keep stakeholders well informed
  • Keep everyone strategically aligned
  • Respect workers by listening and being transparent
  • Collaborate and innovate better as a group
  • Cultivate a sense of belonging and camaraderie
  • Connect, engage, and respect remote workers

All-hands meetings are made up of two interdependent groups playing out important functions:

Leaders who have information to communicate efficiently and effectively.
A diversity of people who are closest to the work and the customer. They collectively have more insightful questions, ideas, and opinions than the leaders alone.

MeetingPulse helps share your agenda

While leaders may wish to communicate many different types of information in an all-hands, some items on the agenda remain consistent:

• Changes to company strategy and goals
• Critical milestones and metrics
• Upcoming products or events
• New hires
• Successes and employee recognition, or what went well and why
• What went wrong and how to adjust
• Q&A session

MeetingPulse offers a uniquely comprehensive suite of solutions for the key goals of your All-Hands meetings.

The All-Hands Meeting: Key Goals and Solutions

  • Brainstorm Goal: More ideas

Conventional Ideation and Brainstorming

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MeetingPulse Ideation and Brainstorming

Convey leadership’s preparedness and competence.

Give leaders more time to research and prepare responses by collecting questions in advance. Just send out a MeetingPulse Q&A to solicit employees’ questions (and votes on which are important) before the meeting.

Leaders can review questions ahead of time and better understand the workforce’s needs.

Generate a complete and relevant agenda to win maximum buy-in from attendees.

Crowdsource your agenda ahead of time by sending a MeetingPulse Agenda to all the hands in your organization, or to selected leaders.

Provide guidance on meeting etiquette and expectations, like policies on cameras being on, how to ask questions, and more, as well as presentations and bios.

Use MeetingPulse Materials to provide web pages, PDFs, or links inside the meeting.

  • Effective Crowdsourcing

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MeetingPulse solution to use

Make access to the meeting easy for greater attendance - in-person, virtually, or a hybrid of both.

Let team members join via any device, with no apps required, or integrate the MeetingPulse All-hands with your favorite tools – Zoom, Webex, MS Teams, PowerPoint.

Make it easy for people to ask their questions.

Invite participants to a MeetingPulse Q&A during the meeting – one that doesn’t require standing in line or hand-raising to ask a question. Learn more

Efficiently crowdsource ideas for improvements.

Bring participants into an Idea Brainstorming session.

Ensure people feel safe asking questions and proposing ideas – so you get more and better questions and ideas from more people.

Give attendees a choice of asking questions or proposing ideas anonymously, so that no questions or insights are lost to the inevitable human anxieties. Learn more on Pyschological Safety

  • Workflow for Questions and Ideas

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MeetingPulse solution to use

Answer the most important questions first. Surface the best ideas.

Allow attendees to vote on questions submitted by their peers to identify those most important, then answer those first. Also let them vote on one another’s ideas for the most actionable priorities.

Be sure to answer all the questions your brilliant crowd has provided.

Use workflow features to assign questions to specified people or mark them for follow-up after the meeting. 

Record all questions and answers.

Use Reports to see all questions asked, which have been answered already, and which have yet to be answered.

Clarify and reinforce organizational culture

Use Announcements and presentations from leadership. Solicit reactions and improvements from employees via Polls, Pulse™ sentiment analysis, and Chat.

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faq

Yes, it does. You can add MeetingPulse as a PowerPoint Add-in and see real-time results and changes right on your PowerPoint slide during Microsoft Teams meetings or others.

MeetingPulse works in any web browser and can be accessed from any device that uses one. You can also integrate MeetingPulse into your favorite video-meeting apps, such as Zoom, Webex, and Microsoft Teams, as well as video platforms like YouTube and Vimeo.

To make MeetingPulse a seamless addition to your meetings, we offer custom themes. You can use your own logo and your colors in Attendee View as well as Broadcast View. Your company name can also be included in the webpage’s title.

Your meeting can also have its own domain. This is great if you are going to promote your meeting offline. For example, you could use “acme2022.com” instead of “meet.ps/acme-all-hands”.

Want to know more about what MeetingPulse can do? Go to the features page.
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