History: Wipro Technologies, the leading strategic IT partner for companies across the Globe offers integrated IT solutions. Internally, it manages a huge work force across different verticals at various levels. Thus tab on each and every project, their progress, employees’ well being, and bottom line etc assumes a huge significance.

Requirement: To make it a collaborative effort of looking at the status quo, achievement and set an agenda for the management to work towards to make the Quarterly All Hands Meet (AHM) as transparent and interactive as possible.

Solution: The participants in the conference are handed over the Radio Frequency Keypad which is an aid to give the opinion.
All the stake holders respond to the questions on:

• Their experience
• Differentiating factors
• Focus areas
• Growth opportunities
• Fun at work /Fun with Colleagues
• Appreciation by managers
• Pride factor

This regimen every quarter leaves employees with a feeling of being listened to, their views respected and actioned on and an open house which spreads the feel good factor.

History: CNBC TV 18’s initiative was to get the HR personnel from across the vertical to discuss the way out of recession and strategies which are evergreen.
The interactions were on the topics below:

• Market Turmoil: Top HR Priorities to weather the storm from the point of view of a CEO
• Developing and Sustaining a High Performance Organizational Culture by Managing Talent: The Role of HR
• Innovative HR Practices: Transforming Talent into Strategic Impact
• The changing business scenario: Is HR adding value?

Requirement: How can the delegates other than the Key speakers be involved in the conclave, how can the interactivity be maintained?

Solution: The participants in the conference were handed over the Radio Frequency Keypad which is an aid to give opinion. A set of questions were shown on screen after each topic was discussed by the key opinion leaders. The significant pointers from each discussion were converted into questions and were polled.

The voting percentages were an indication of convergent/divergent views held by the entire delegation.

History: Goldman Sachs, a full-service global investment banking and securities firm went about all their global offices meeting with the core team members and their subordinates. The focus of the workshop was Excellence, Integrity, Clarity of Communication, Confidentiality etc.

The team from the organization’s headquarters facilitated this workshop with the intervention of case studies, videos and role plays.

Requirement: How can the learning by each individual be captured in a conference room filled with more than 150 people?
How can the lessons captured make an impact on others?
To make one understand the bigger context through case studies and role plays.

Solution:

• The participants in the conference were handed over the Radio Frequency Keypad which is an aid to give opinion.
• A set of questions were shown on screen after a case study or a video
• The questions were polled
• Roles were reversed or a new dimension was introduced as part of the case study/video
• The same questions were polled again to get the marked shift in perception of a situation
• The poll percentages for each option were an indicator of a paradigm shift and it was present in the space for everyone to witness

History: Novo Nordisk, a leading pharmaceutical company breaking grounds in diabetes formulation was on an awareness campaign all over India. The primary objective was to engage the General physicians and the specialists across all regions in India and educate them on the disease, the new treatments etc.

Requirement: To make the engagement as interactive and lively as possible and to remove the dreariness in the conferences.

Solution: All the participants in the conference are handed over the Radio Frequency Keypad which is an aid to give the opinion. On the speaker front, the presentations are interspersed with the questions to break the monotony of a monologue.

When it’s time for questions, the participants read the same and poll in their choice to make their opinion known. The question will be on something that needs to be emphasized or something that needs to be driven across or something which needs to be a take-away from the conference.
The question, the participant’s opinion, the percentage of opinions for each of the choices and the debate later only increased the interaction and took the conference to a whole new level.

The locations across which the opinion polls were held:
Agra, Chiangmai – Bangkok, Alleppey, Chennai, Poovar, Trivandrum, Chennai, Madurai, Vishakapatnam, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Puri, Mumbai, Pune, Jaipur, Jim Corbett National Park

History: IBM Developer Works initiated a challenge for Developers called IBM Developer Super Star Contest. Here the invitation was to register, promote and present the application in various IT campuses to garner the support from the technical community.
More than 600 applications were received. Top 8 developers presented their application in front of their peers.

Requirement:

• To grade each application on a scale of 1 to 5
• To choose the best application

Solution: The audience were given a keypad each to opine on the application. As each application was rated, the average rating was calculated to remove the bias, if any.