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Zing is a facilitated meeting and learning environment that provides a shared conceptual space where all participants are able to simultaneously view and contribute ideas as they are created. Groups are quickly able to function as teams, efficiently generating new knowledge, understanding and plans of action. After a session, the information can be instantly emailed to all participants for further collaboration and decision-making.

Zing is being used successfully in many areas including:

Visioning
Business planning
Workshops, seminars and retreats
Creativity and innovation
Business process re-engineering
Crisis management
Market research and focus groups
Advertising and public relations campaigns
Change management
Project management
Human resource development activities including leadership,
     teamwork and team building
Futures and scenario planning
Community development and stakeholder engagement
University and school education and training
Marketing and product development

Zing is being used to help organizations and communities
re-invent themselves for success in the new global economic climate.

There are many sets of meetings currently available for the Zing platform, which address the needs of business, education and community development. Meetings are easily customizable, as well, to meet the specific needs of a group. This can easily be done by a trained Zing facilitator.

The computer interface is simple and uses either wireless keyboards connected to a main machine, or an intranet/internet system. While there is great benefit to having participants meet in person, successful sessions can be held virtually as well.

The benefits of Zing team meetings are:

Five times faster than conventional meetings.
Anyone can facilitate sessions.
People generate hundreds of useful ideas an hour.
Everyone gets really involved and has an enjoyable experience.
Disorganised groups become top-performing teams.
New reliable knowledge is created.
People reach radical but similar conclusions despite their differences.
People become committed more readily to take action.

Here's how it works:

Participants discuss their ideas, then type them into the system, via wireless keyboards, where they are displayed for everyone to see.

Next all ideas are read aloud and the group finds common ideas or themes.

© 2011 by A. Straus & Associates, Inc.

"Knowledge creation is now an essential skill.

The critical skill required in the world of work is longer the ability to accurately reproduce or apply knowledge, but to create new knowledge through engagement with others...."
          -John Findlay, creator of Zing

Participants say...

• Way more effective (and fun) than ordinary meetings
• Every voice is heard
• Generates hundreds of great ideas
• Everyone owns the outcome
• Makes people smarter
• The group becomes a team
• It’s easy to see the big picture

Please contact us for more information about:

• Purchasing a Zing system or site license
• Zing facilitator training
• Meeting facilitation using Zing

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