IntelliConferences
There are many intelligent, earnest professionals operating throughout industry, government, and the community. What has been lacking are effective methods and forums for gathering that intelligence into well-conceived plans, policies, and investment strategies.
Typical conferences convene hundreds of people to listen passively to speakers and their PowerPoint presentations. Even when hallway and dinner conversations are lively, energy dissipates by the time participants begin their next work day.
OnTrackNorthAmerica’s IntelliConferences convene stakeholders online and in-person in efficient dialogues that foster better thinking, decision-making, and action, producing viable solutions.
Efficient, Effective Engagement
IntelliConferences present a completely new approach to small- and large-group dialogue that greatly reduces participants’ time commitment while increasing the creativity and impact of the interaction.
We utilize an inquiry-based approach to dialogue and thinking that empowers participants to co-create innovative solutions and projects.
traditional processes
Fixed meeting schedules require participants to travel or gather online for prescheduled meetings.
Inadequate facilitation impedes progress by fostering polite but fruitless conversation about the most contentious issues.
Too much information in the form of reading, listening to, and digesting a surfeit of facts, statistics, and data is both exhausting and time consuming. Limiting the type and amount of information invites more enthusiastic participation for real results.
Attrition is the result of inefficient, time-consuming, and contentious processes that lead participants to drop out or pull back.
Unproductive conversations often come with histories, and stakeholders can also come with baggage, bringing past relationship challenges into their communications.
Reactive engagement occurs when participants respond directly to previous posts, which can cause interactions to devolve into squabbles or reinforce entrenched positions.
Speaking can be risky and participants are sometimes reluctant to say what they think and feel about the issues at hand.
Asynchronous flexibility allows participants to read and respond independently on their own schedules, from wherever they are, saving valuable time.
Call and response is facilitated by the IntelliConference moderator who asks a set of questions. In turn, each participant responds with their written replies. The facilitation team compiles and sends the results to all stakeholders, interacting with individual participants as needed.
Facilitator summaries are are sent to all participants, enabling everyone to have a synopsis of the entire group’s input.
Participation agreements are a set of reasonable policies presented to and signed by each participant at the time of registration. Adherence to these agreements is tracked and cheered.
Participant coaching is provided by the moderator as needed, to encourage and enable participants to express themselves fully without unnecessarily confusing or offending other participants.
Inquiry-based IntelliConferences utilize questions to stimulate inquiry-based dialogues that focus the group on the end-game.
Anonymity is an option offered by the IntelliConference methodology to allow participants to choose attribution or anonymity on all or some of their input.
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