IntelliConferences
There are many intelligent, dedicated individuals across industry, government, and the community. What has been lacking are effective methods and forums to gather that intelligence into well-designed plans, policies, and investment strategies.
Typical conferences draw hundreds of people who listen passively to speakers and their PowerPoint presentations. Even when hallway and dinner conversations are lively, the energy fades by the time participants start their next workday.
OnTrackNorthAmerica’s IntelliConferences bring together stakeholders, online and in person, for efficient discussions that harness collective intelligence, resulting in improved solutions, better-informed decisions, and effective action.
Efficient, Effective Engagement
IntelliConferences present a path-breaking approach to small- and large-group dialogue that greatly reduces participants’ time commitment while increasing the impact and satisfaction of the interaction.
We have developed an inquiry-based approach to dialogue and thinking called IntelliSynthesis®, which empowers participants to co-create innovative solutions and projects.
traditional processes
Fixed meeting schedules require participants to travel or go online at pre-determined times.
Inadequate facilitation results in chaotic banter or polite, unproductive conversation that leaves essential questions unanswered.
Participants are expected to read what everyone has written, wasting valuable time.
Attrition results from time-consuming, contentious processes.
Squabbles and entrenched positions flare up when participants are forced to respond directly to previous posts.
Sharing some views can be risky if forced to do so publicly.
Asynchronous flexibility allows participants to read and respond on their own schedules, from wherever they are.
Call and response is initiated by the facilitation team, who language the dialogue agenda as questions, rather than phrases, so that problems are reframed as opportunities, leading to solutions, and progress.
The facilitation team summarizes each rounds’ input, saving participants time and stimulating enthusiastic participation and real results.
Participation agreements that are reasonable and productive are signed by each participant at registration, with adherence tracked and cheered.
Participants’ input is sent to the facilitation team, who catalog the group’s similar views and identify individual outlier perspectives that the group may need to address or align with, thus keeping the focus on the end goal.
Anonymity is an option wherein participants can choose public or private on all or some of their input.