Our Work

Collaboration for Collective Action

Our work at WebStudy Foundation is to bring the proven methodology as outlined in Virtuous Meetings: Technology + Design for High Engagement in Large Groups to organizations serving the learn/earn ecosystem who are seeking a new approach to creating meaningful change.

“Virtuous Meetings is a simple notion—give participants back their voice, and enable them to generate ideas, solutions and understandings that move the whole group, no matter how large, forward together.”

By 2030, to educate qualified workers for future jobs, educators and employers will converge to create a ‘Business as UNusual Future’.  Our future is based on what organizations do in the next six years.

Participant Centered Collaboration Matters!

It matters most what leaders and front-line workers are thinking—even thousands of them at once, who may be in the room, at satellite locations or on laptops at home.

Collaborative Services to Explore
Meta-Conversations

WebStudy Foundation introduces collaborative services that liberates large groups of participants from traditional assumptions and business-as-usual Q&A and discussion tactics with a new approach for hearing and working with the contributions of all participants, live, virtually.

How Does It Work?

 

The proven methodology outlined in Virtuous Meetings uses design + technology + facilitation so all participants have the experience of working as an integrated team. We make the best use of the audience’s energy, ideas and time to transform what they can accomplish in collective action.

DESIGN + TECHNOLOGY + FACILITATION

Design
Technology
Facilitation
Features
  • Our proven design methodology integrates process design, technology, and unbiased facilitation
  • Our engagement tools include online feedback tools for simultaneous input from 50 to 5000 stakeholders, utilizing collaborative methods like brainstorming, polling, ranking, and Likert scale measurements
  • We synthesize responses and present them back to the audience in a theme analysis
  • In a digital environment, we deepen engagement that results in accelerated decision-making
  • We conduct network analysis before and after engagements to demonstrate ongoing collaboration and effectiveness
Benefits
  • We engage multiple stakeholders more broadly and deeply, fostering heightened commitment
  • We optimize strategic thinking, ensuring efficiency without wasting time
  • We focus planning across silos to maximize resources and eliminate redundancies efficiently
  • We accelerate decision-making, ensuring faster and more precise outcomes
  • We facilitate innovative collective action to address complex challenges effectively
  • In a virtual environment, we simplify event logistics and reduce meeting costs
Outcomes
  • Input from diverse groups working on shared challenges leads to inclusive and rapid convergence in mutual understanding
  • Effective collaboration converges divergent viewpoints and aligns actions across different groups, enabling stakeholders to improve performance and collaborate on scalable solutions
  • Participants learn that continued networking sustains the initiative longer as a result of achieving aggressive goals
  • The pre- and post-network analysis metrics suggest a new learned behavior of sustained collaboration is possible
  •  A community plan is developed through capturing and synthesizing diverse thinking
  • Aligned actions and collective commitment are achieved, with universal support for collective decisions
 

Most people attend a meeting instead of solving challenges. In our convenings, multiple departments or organizations solve challenges with participatory decision-making.

The combination of design + technology + facilitation results in a convergent outcome. The audience generates new insights, new understanding, and suggestions never thought of. Leaders, philanthropists, front-line educators, employers and government agencies embark on a transformative iterative process of change.

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