Step 1Multiple choice
What should we spend the next half hour on?
- The thing that broke
- Next quarter
- Hiring
- Something not listed
Opens the session by handing the agenda to the room. People pay attention to a meeting they chose.
Poll maker
Write a question, put a code on screen, and the room answers from their phones. Responses display live on the presenter's screen. Nothing to install, and nobody has to sign up to answer.
Why a show of hands tells you nothing
Hands go up after the first hand goes up. People read the room and then agree with it. Ask everyone at once, with no name attached, and you get what they think instead of what they think is safe.
Answer this one
A real poll. Your vote is counted with everyone else's.
Live now52 responses
What's the worst part of most meetings?
What you can ask
Multiple choice
One answer or several. The bars draw as the votes land.
Rating scales
How confident, how ready, how clear. You set the scale.
Ranking
Give people a list and ask them to order it. You get the room's priorities, not the loudest voice's.
Open text
No options at all. Everyone writes an answer and you read them together.
Three questions that work anywhere
Copy these as they are, or change the words. They take about two minutes.
- Step 2Rating
How clear is the plan right now?
A number you can compare later. Ask it again at the end and you can see whether the meeting worked.
- Step 3Open text
What's the one thing we're not talking about?
Anonymous, so the awkward answer arrives. This is usually the most useful minute of the meeting.
Getting good answers
Ask one thing at a time
Two questions in one sentence get you an average of two answers, which means nothing.
Keep options short
People read them on a phone, in a few seconds, while you are still talking.
Say what happens next
Tell the room what you'll do with the result. Polls that go nowhere stop getting answered.
Make your first poll
About thirty seconds. Your audience needs no account.
Create your poll nowNo card, and nobody you invite needs an account.
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Quiz maker
Timed, scored, with a leaderboard between rounds.
Live Q&A platform
The room writes the questions and votes on them.
Word cloud generator
One open question, and every answer in one picture.
Survey maker
Six question types in one run, answered in the room.
Presentation maker
A presentation the room answers, question by question.