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Slido: gangster moves for largeR groups
Slido helps you transform a large group meeting into something productive.
One of our sweet spots is the meeting that’s bigger than a conventional workshop and not quite a conference. 20-60 people. How do you make that work, right? Reach for Slido. (Other brands are available). Instant engagement from gruff CEOs through to sceptical sixth formers.
1 Set up
You’ll need a Slido account, but no one else does. You’ll set up an ‘event’ in advance, which will give you a event code. More here.
Tell your participants to get their phones out and ask them to search for Slido. It will take them to a page and the put in the code. Bingo. Everyone’s in.
Especially useful if some people are operating remotely.
2 Q&A
Invite people to type in their questions about a topic, as a response to a speaker or in an AMA (Ask Me Anything) session. Slido is anonymous by default
Also, ask them to upvote other people’s questions. Instantly you get a read out of the questions that are actually in people’s minds, and how common they are. Get weaving.
This is a Q&A gangster move.
3 Polling
Slido’s other key feature is different types of polling. A couple of examples:
‘Quiz’ type options to bring some smiles to the room (get them to form groups if they’re competitive types). Or to check if they’ve done the pre-reads..
Word clouds to get a visual sense of peoples’ feelings and priorities. (e.g. type in two words that come to mind when you think about money, next year’s revenue, opportunities within the business…)
Open polls are also brilliant for generating a variety of responses to big questions.
4 Ideas
Slido don’t seem to keen on this feature (you have to fiddle in the settings to enable it.) But I don’t understand why. It’s brilliant.
You invite people to contribute ideas on a specific topic. Ask them to be as specific as possible so that other people ‘get’ the idea. (‘We need to communicate more’ is NOT an idea.) And ask them to upvote other ideas based on some simple criteria.
Once you’ve done that, you get a sense of the most popular and have people group up and do some work together to take the ideas further.