Meeting Canary calculates the cost of a meeting in real-time. It’s configurable, so you can change the average cost of colleagues’ times (or an individual’s) in whatever currency you require. The actual cost will depend on the number of internal participants in the meeting and the time they collectively spent.
You can only manage what you can measure. After every meeting the Meeting Canary collects feedback to help identify participants who perhaps did not need to attend the meeting. This is entirely configurable, so you can gain insights into how your colleagues feel about their meetings and, to encourage genuine feedback, this can be done anonymously if you wish.
As well as the friendly Canary present in all meetings, Meeting Canary has provided a side panel. Here you can see the FiRE indicator scores (Focus, Inclusion, Respect and Energy), how much the meeting is costing (clocking up in real-time) and access the summary and action items from the last meeting. You can also see who is speaking the most, who has not spoken yet and the relationship between all the participants. Individuals can also see personalised ‘top tips’ – which might be encouraging them to involve others, asking them to reduce monologuing (unless they are presenting something of course!) and so on.
As an actual real-life (ish) participant, our friendly Meeting Canary will react to all sorts of things that happen in a meeting. More and more animations are being added, so watch out for subtle visual nudges – like late arrivals, interruptions, long meetings, non-inclusive language, idea generation and monologuing. When a meeting nears the end, your Meeting Canary even looks at its watch. Using the wake word ‘Ok Meeting Canary’ you can even ask the bird things – just look out for the chat reply to any question you ask!
Meeting Canary provides a full report after each meeting. This can include summary transcripts, action points and sentiment calculations. How much small talk was made, who spoke to whom and how many people turned up early or late is also provided. If the meeting overran, we’ll show by how much. Even a report on the technical quality of the meeting is given. All of this data is available for you to take action, in fact, to make meetings better!
Much of our reporting is focussed on how the overall meeting went, but we also give tips and hints to individuals with their own personal FiRE score. It could be that you speak a lot, or not enough, that you interrupt a bit, or that you’re always late or maybe don’t put your video on. Seeing how you’re progressing is helpful and seeing your score going down is more likely to encourage you to improve.
