All-hands Hub

A space for inspiration and resources for organizing and running All-hands meetings

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Alex
AlexSlido Community Manager
posted in Master your Facilitation Skills

🙋‍♀️ Discussion of the month: How to run the best all-hands meetings?

Hey everyone! Can’t believe it’s been almost a month since our Inclusive Meetings discussion! Thank you so much everyone that participated! If you still have some great experiences or tips to share, here’s the thread - we’d love to hear from you 🤗  This month’s topic is all about All-Hands Meetings 🙋‍♀️  I think we’ve all experienced our fair share of dull and unengaging All-Hands meetings, especially after switching to hybrid or virtual setup. At Slido, we consider All-Hands the most important meeting of the month, where teams get together, share their updates, celebrate wins, learn from their fails and get all of their tough questions answered.  👉 Here’s a list of  8 fresh ideas we put together for you to try at your upcoming All-Hands or even Town Hall meeting. I particularly like number 4: Turn your business numbers into a quiz, it’s much more engaging and fun than listen to long monologues describing charts 🤷‍♀️Plus, makes it so much easier to actually remember the content!  B

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How to host better Q&A sessions at all-hands meetingsfacilitation tips

Giving your employees a chance to ask questions in a Q&A session should be one of the core elements of your all-hands meetings. It’s a priceless opportunity to learn what your employees think as well as address the most burning issues. But – running a Q&A session can be a real challenge too.How do you encourage employees to ask questions in the first place? How do you prevent the Q&A session from becoming toxic or negative?In this article, we’ll share 9 tips that will help you handle your entire all-hands meeting Q&A with grace, ensure that important questions get addressed, and leave everyone satisfied. 1. Leave enough time for Q&AFor a Q&A session to hit its mark, it cannot feel rushed. Your employees must have enough time to think about and ask their questions. At the same time, they have to feel that their questions are answered properly, not hurriedly.A rushed Q&A session may even backfire – your employees may feel as though leaders don’t care about the

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Alex
AlexSlido Community Manager
published in Set up Slido for All-hands Meetings

How to set up Slido for all-hands meetingshow-to

Here’s a collection of articles to help you with setting up Slido for All-hands meetings:           

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1 year ago
Alex
AlexSlido Community Manager
published in Master your Facilitation Skills

5 ways to deal with difficult employee questions during Q&AFacilitation tips

Opening up to employee questions has never been more important than it is today. In these tough times, hosting transparent Q&A sessions and giving people a chance to ask is a key channel for the leaders to build trust and open culture. To start a conversation with their employees, many companies use Slido to crowdsource questions from their teams.However, the power to speak up might tempt people to ask questions that hint a sense of frustration or hostility. Or, ask a question that is irrelevant for the discussion.To help you handle such situations, here are 5 Slido tips that will reduce the number of poisonous or irrelevant questions during your company Q&A. 1. Set clear guidelines and expectationsPrevention is better than cure. Setting clear, simple guidelines can drastically improve the quality of your employees’ questions.Clarify the expectations and rules for submitting questions before each of your Q&A session. “You can’t put the tool out there and expect everyone to

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KatyMrvova
published in Master your Facilitation Skills

How to host more inclusive meetings: 15 essential tacticsFacilitation tips

What do we mean when we talk about inclusive meetings? The term itself doesn’t describe any new phenomenon; rather, meetings as they should be. Inclusive meetings are meetings where each employee has a voice and feels empowered to actively contribute.Running inclusive meetings means you open the door to a diversity of thought and enable all your team members to bring the best ideas to the table – regardless of their personality, role, or work setup.Pick up a few of these handy practices, adopt them throughout your meetings, and start hosting more inclusive meetings for all. Preparation phaseDon’t underestimate the prep phase. It’ll set the tone for your upcoming meeting (and beyond). Here are a few tips on how to be inclusive of all your teammates before your meeting even starts. 1. Invite everyone who might benefit from the meetingAs much as 67% of employees say that spending too much time in meetings distracts them from being productive at work, as this study found. On the other hand

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KatyMrvova
published in Master your Facilitation Skills

How to lead and facilitate virtual team meetingsFacilitation tips

For many companies around the world, running virtual meetings is the only way to manage cross-team communication. But there are multiple challenges that come with attending meetings online. Remote workers often tend to zone out or feel excluded from the conversation unless they’re compelled to actively participate. As a company that runs hybrid meetings all the time, we know a thing or two about it.There is, however, a number of ways to make sure that doesn’t happen and secure the best experience for your remote teammates.Let us run you through some of the best tools and facilitation techniques that work for us at Slido.We believe they will help make your virtual meetings better and more valuable for your remote colleagues. 1. Double-check the AV setupFirst, you have to make sure the tech doesn’t fail you. So before you kick off your meeting, make sure everything works like a well-oiled machine. Pick a quality live streaming toolIf you’re running virtual meetings or hybrid meetings, fi

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posted in All-hands Community

Any tips on different polls for allhands?

Hi! What questions do you use in your company-wide meetings? We’re usually doing ice-breakers like ‘Describe your week in one word’ or what’s been the highlight of the month and a feedback at the end, but I’m running out of inspiration. Do you have any tips?

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3 years ago
Alex
AlexSlido Community Manager
published in Master your Facilitation Skills

Video: Building trust with an all-hands Q&Avideo

Learn how to make the most of your all-hands Q&A to build trust 👉  

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Alex
1 year ago
Alex
AlexSlido Community Manager
published in Set up Slido for All-hands Meetings

Running all-hands with integrationshow-to

Here are some helpful how-to guides to get you started with setting up your Slido with our integrations:        

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Alex
1 year ago
Alex
AlexSlido Community Manager
published in Master your Facilitation Skills

What to do with unanswered questions after your all-hands meetingFacilitation tips

For your employees, the Q&A is often the most valuable part of your all-hands meeting. That’s what our team members say, too. But there’s a problem many companies face: limited time. So what do you do if you end up with some unanswered questions at the end of your meeting?Our advice: don’t ignore them. If you wave people’s concerns off, they will feel like their voice doesn’t matter.Instead, show people that you care. Address the unanswered questions afterward. It will help you ensure that important issues don’t slip through the cracks. To help you handle it, here are 8 ways to address outstanding questions after your next all-hands. 1. Address unanswered questions on SlackThe most useful place to share the answers is where you communicate as a team. And for many companies, this place is Slack. So it only makes sense to publish the answers there.One of our customers, a leading games publisher, shared how they handle unanswered questions using Slack.Their executives commit to answer

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Alex
1 year ago
Alex
AlexSlido Community Manager
published in Get inspired by All-hands Customer Stories

Engaging employees during online team meetings with Slidocustomer story

“Slido took us from 0 to 100. Before, we only had assumptions about how many people were engaged in our team calls. Now we have facts, thanks to Slido.”Brian Davenport, VP of Service, A1 Garage Door Service A1 Garage Door Services is a growing business with 200 employees across ten U.S. states. To keep their field workers aligned and updated, they run weekly live-streamed team meetings. Some people join from 15 different offices, others are completely remote. But hosting virtual meetings comes with its challenges. “In the past, nobody would speak during the calls, and after each meeting, we got questions about things we had already explained. It seemed like people were not listening”, shares Brian Davenport, VP of Service. Brian wanted to find a way to resolve this and get people more involved during the calls. “We wanted to increase our employee engagement across the country in all of the live-streamed meetings. That's where Slido came in and helped us to increase this.” The problem:

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Alex
AlexSlido Community Manager
published in Set up Slido for All-hands Meetings

Video: How to set up Slido for All-hands Meetingsvideo

  Take a deep dive into the technical setup of Slido for All-hands meetings or Townhalls, so that you are set up for success!

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1 year ago
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Kylewis98
asked in Master your Facilitation Skills

Intro slide keeps getting skipped

When I first start presenting as the host, instead of staying on the screen where it just shows the QR code (and give people time to join and setup), it immediately jumps into the first poll question with the QR code on the left side. How do I stop it from doing that?

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Ondrej from Slido
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KatyMrvova
published in Master your Facilitation Skills

Guide: 25 tips to engage your team at all-hands meetingsFacilitation tips

Giving your team a voice is one of the main reasons why a regular all-hands meeting should be run. Still, for many employees, it is just another meeting to sit through. So, how do you organize an all-hands meeting that your team members will actually look forward to?We have put together for you this easily digestible, easy-to-read guide, that collects 25 actionable tips on how to organize more engaging all-hands meetings in your company. 👉 Download the guide as a PDF here They’re all tried and tested, either by us or by leaders in the industry. Here are the topics you will find in the guide:1. Boosting engagement in the roomAn all-hands meeting is a space where your employees have the chance to express themselves and have a direct, face-to-face conversation with their leaders. For this to happen, it has to provide them with enough opportunities for engagement and personal interaction.The first chapter of this guidebook contains a handful of simple tricks on how to engage and energize

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1 year ago
Alex
AlexSlido Community Manager
published in Get inspired by All-hands Customer Stories

Comms Manager at Zoom: Don’t ignore employee questions just because they’re inconvenientcustomer story

Zoom is a video communications platform employing over 1,500 people around the globe. It’s also the second best company to work for in the US according to Glassdoor.In the last couple of years, Zoom has experienced rapid growth in terms of both customers and employees. To keep its growing and distributed workforce aligned, the company runs regular all-hands meetings. As we wanted to learn more about how Zoom runs its all-hands, we invited its Communications Manager Priscilla Barolo to our meetup in San Francisco. She let us take a peek into Zoom’s company-wide meetings and shared some of its best practices with us. Here are some of the main takeaways from the interview. Q: Priscilla, you’ve been with Zoom for six years. Do you remember when your all-hands started?They started straight away when I was an early employee. I remember there were about a dozen of us in a circle, just talking about what’s going on in the business and the industry. Q: What do your all-hands meetings look like

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Alex
1 year ago
Alex
AlexSlido Community Manager
published in Master your Facilitation Skills

Video: The ultimate guide to using Slido at your All-hands MeetingVideo

 Discover how Slido can help you with some common challenges connected to all-hands meetings, sometimes known as town halls - whether it is sharing business updates in an engaging way, being able to read the room and running an inclusive Q&A. This ultimate guide contains our favorite best practices, facilitation tips and a lot of useful information on the technical setup, so that you are set up for success.Here's the PDF manual mentioned in the video.We also have a great template to get you set up for a great all-hands presentation attached below:  

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Alex
1 year ago
Alex
AlexSlido Community Manager
published in Get inspired by All-hands Customer Stories

Internal Comms Director at Onfido: Listen to your employees, they want to talkcustomer story

Emily Scammell is Director of Internal Communications at Onfido, an identity verification software that is currently London’s fastest-growing scale up. Emily is a highly experienced internal comms professional, having initiated and led Internal Communications for over 16 years at businesses like Virgin and Kantar.We were delighted when Emily agreed to take part in the fireside chat with our own Brand and Communications Director Kursha Woodgate at the Internal Comms Meetup in London organized by Slido. Here’s the write-up of their inspiring talk.Q: Emily, you’ve been in internal comms for a while, working for various different companies. What sort of changes have you seen in internal comms in that period?With the new generations coming into the workplace, I think there’s a higher expectation from employees in organizations. They want to experience things in the workplace that they would experience in their everyday lives. They are looking at Facebook and Instagram, being able to give in

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Alex
1 year ago
Alex
AlexSlido Community Manager
published in Get inspired by All-hands Customer Stories

Increasing employee engagement during leadership meetingscustomer story

“With Slido, we went from 5-6 employee questions received during our leadership meetings to over 100.”Jessica Kosmack, Senior Communications Specialist, Toronto Transit Commission The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) is the third largest public transportation agency in North America. During their regular leadership meetings, all 1,600 leaders gather to share updates, discuss the latest issues and align with the organizational strategy. Traditionally, TTC did not see a high engagement during the meetings. “The meeting participants had the opportunity to ask questions but most were reluctant or perhaps not interested in putting their hands up”, explained Jessica Kosmack, Senior Communications Specialist at the TTC. To address this, the TTC leveraged Slido to get more employees to participate actively. As a result, they increased the number of questions from only a handful to over 100 and brought people’s real concerns to light. Get inspired by the TTC story. Battling low engagement durin

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Alex
1 year ago
Alex
AlexSlido Community Manager
published in Get inspired by All-hands Customer Stories

How JAM involved 600 participants in their Q&A sessionscustomer story

 “Slido helped our 600-people audience feel heard throughout the conference by having a say in what questions get asked during the Q&A sessions.”Mathilde Leo, Co-founder of JAM JAM is a leading product conference to share the stories behind great products. Every year, it brings together hundreds of product managers and designers eager to hear lessons from some of the biggest brands around, including Uber, Netflix and Google. The team wanted to create an environment where the participants could learn from world-class speakers facing the same challenges as them. With this goal in mind, they built in Q&A sessions that offered enough space for such interaction. To involve everyone in the discussion, the team swapped the microphones for Slido. As a result, they managed to engage a whopping 70% of the audience in the conversation. Replacing mics with Slido to involve everyoneWhen JAM first started in 2015 with 150 participants, the organizers were using mics to take questions from th

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Alex
1 year ago
Alex
AlexSlido Community Manager
published in Master your Facilitation Skills

Video: Facilitating an engaging all-handsvideo

Learn how to facilitate all-hands that are engaging and inclusive 👉  

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Alex
1 year ago
Alex
AlexSlido Community Manager
published in Get inspired by All-hands Customer Stories

How HUMANOO is building a culture of transparency with Slidocustomer story

“Because of Slido, everyone at HUMANOO now has the same opportunity to be heard.”Maximilien A. Notter, Co-CEO, HUMANOO HUMANOO is a Berlin-based startup that offers customized, on-demand programs for its subscribers, enabling them to build sustainable healthy habits and improve their health, day by day. “We are the first ones in Europe to translate health activities into rewards, into cash. We do that by working with both companies and insurance companies, helping them to pay so-called health bonuses to their employees or insurees”, begins Maximilien A. Notter, the Co-CEO of HUMANOO. HUMANOO’s 80 plus employees are currently distributed across Berlin, Paris, and London, in a hybrid setup. As their global team continues to grow, the need for greater transparency across the company grew as well. In this story, Maximilien A. Notter, HUMANOO’s Co-CEO, tells us how Slido is helping him lay the foundations of a trust-based culture at his company. “While trying to address some concerns regard

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Alex
1 year ago
Alex
AlexSlido Community Manager
published in Master your Facilitation Skills

Video: Master your facilitation skills for your next All-hands Meetingvideo

 Facilitating an all-hands meeting is no easy task! Discover how Slido can help you with it. This video covers some common challenges connected to all-hands meetings, sometimes known as town halls - whether it is sharing business updates in an engaging way, being able to read the room and running an inclusive Q&A.

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Alex
1 year ago
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florence_noumbrellas
asked in Set up Slido for All-hands Meetings

Having colours in word cloud assigned to different teams?

Hi there,I’m wondering if it is possible in the word cloud function to allow participants to select a colour that we can link to their team so we can see the results and know which team they come from? Hope that makes sense,Keen to get a bit deeper with understanding the responses from different teams and showing the collective group how different teams feel,Thanks! 

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Ondrej from Slido
1 month ago
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Batuhangumuslu
asked in Master your Facilitation Skills

Correct answer photo is possible?

I want to play the "Guess it right" game. I attach a photo while asking a question. I get answers for 4 options about where the ball is on this photo. Everything can be done up to this point. After the answers are given, I would like to add a photo that will show the accuracy of the answer. Is it possible?

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Ondrej from Slido
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Crystal Gibson
asked in Set up Slido for All-hands Meetings

Sole source letter

Would you be able to provide our school with a sole source letter indicating your product is the sole source of your product?

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