Need someone else to facilitate?

What if I am on holiday and I need my colleague to facilitate my meeting?
By popular request, we have added the ability to make an attendee into a facilitator to allow them to facilitate or co-facilitate a meeting.

This feature is for “Invite Only” boards.

Let’s take a look!

After setting the board visibility to the above setting, you can change any invited attendee to a facilitator by clicking on the attendee.

Then click “Make Facilitator”

Note that the user will only be a facilitator in the current meeting. 

We’ve given it a revamp

We are excited to announce the release of our revamped Zoom integration! The new design is not only more visually appealing but also much easier to navigate. With just a few clicks, you can start your meeting and collaborate with others in real-time. We believe this update will greatly enhance your experience on our platform and make it even easier for you to connect with others.

Just a reminder

When using our Zoom integration, copy the Zoom link and click “Set Conference Link”

Other key improvements include:

• The addition of a ‘go with the flow’ option at the end of a timed discussion. This horizontal thumb is for those that don’t have a strong opinion either way.
• Users can edit and delete their actions or learnings (Editing comments is coming soon)
• You have a greater choice of timer sounds…
  and we’ve changed the default too!

Subscribers to Lean Coffee Table will be the first to try our new agenda-based meeting boards, for free.

Many of our global customers have asked for an alternative meeting format for their distributed teams. The new structured meeting type will be highly interactive and visually simple, building on our Lean Coffee Table experience.

Online meetings are an increasingly important part of our time at work and yet they often fail to deliver the benefits they could.  Mainly due to a dull, traditional approach and limited tools.

Our vision is to change this by maximising the engagement and creative contribution of all participants.

We can achieve this using real-time interactivity, enabling multiple-contributions whilst maintaining a clear focus with a simple and pleasing layout.

The agenda-based meeting board will be released in a Beta version and will be free for our LCT subscribers for a limited period. We would love to hear your feedback and suggestions.

In the future we will offer the new meeting format as an optional upgrade to your LCT subscription.

The benefits of our new agenda-based meeting board

• Engage attendees with a genuinely co-created meeting, rather than one that is facilitator driven.
  • Simple design maintains a clear focus, with real-time contributions and innovative ways to gauge levels of interest
• Maximise contributions by:
  • Helping attendees co-create the most engaging agenda by adding notes ahead of the meeting
  • Gathering contributions from attendees during the meeting, as they post links to articles or images to be included in the summary
  • Allowing attendees to write contributions, which were not possible within the agenda time limit.
• Make it easier for the facilitator
  • Create the minutes and actions in real-time, visible to everyone, then distribute a .pdf of the meeting minutes after it finishes.
  • Manage time with simple time and progress feedback.
  • Copy an earlier agenda for those regular meetings
  • Gauge levels of interest and engagement of attendees with the real-time ‘topic  thermometer’

Note: not all these features will be available on the first day.  We are most interested in getting your feedback on the early iterations and so are adopting the principles of an MVP (minimal viable product) to validate our assumptions and to learn as quickly as possible. Luckily, we have 1000s of users like you who will help us to do this.

The Lean Coffee Table team, as part of RippleRock Ltd. is very proud to announce we are now certified to the international gold standard of ISO27001:2013.

We invested our time in achieving this so that we can provide added reassurance to you, our clients. It turned out to be a valuable process, helping us to examine and explicitly define and improve some of our internal processes.

You want to know that your Lean Coffee sessions and data are safely stored, and we trust that the new ISO certification, together with the frequent penetration testing we undertake will provide you with that confidence.

Over the last year we have found ourselves completing long questionnaires for some larger clients who have a detailed Information Security criteria and an established purchasing process. ISO27001 should lower the bar to purchasing Lean Coffee Table by helping our customers ease the path through their due diligence processes.