How to create a Speedboat activity
Using a Speedboat to encourage discussion and generate ideas for achieving your team's goals.
Using the analogy of a Boat, for example, your participants explore what allows the team to move forward towards its objectives and what has been holding it back. This approach, accessible to all, encourages the group to materialize the successes and weaknesses of a project.
To create a Speedboat activity, click on “Add a slide” on the top left of your screen, and select the activity Speedboat.
When you choose the "Speedboat" activity, the interface adapts instantly: a dedicated editing panel appears on the right of your screen, allowing you to customise your activity. At the same time, the system automatically saves your activity with the same name as the newly created activity (in this case, Speedboat) and integrates it into your presentation, visible as a slide in the left-hand navigation bar.
Activity settings
Title and instructions
- Customise your Speedboat activity! The default title is the name of the activity. To change it, delete the automatic title and enter your own question or a customised title.
- Add an instruction to give you more details about your activity. This option is optional.
Activity format
Beekast offers a range of brainstorming formats:
- The Boat, used as part of a continuous improvement workshop by adapting the title and icons of the categories to your work context.
- The Hot Air Balloon, where you tackle the same theme (brakes/motors) as the Boat without the objectives/obstacles dimension. The hot-air balloon analogy is a simple activity for implementing continuous improvement in your team. It allows you to vary from the Speedboat and bring novelty to your meetings (essential to avoid fatigue among your participants).
- In the car, keep an eye on the rearview mirror to see how far you've come and the parachutes that are slowing you down, but don't forget to look far ahead! A ravine is coming up fast, but the team probably has the means to build a bridge to avoid it!
- The Rocket, a collaborative activity for discussing strategic issues. Take a step back with the Beekast rocket and work as a team on transformation issues: describe your strategies and initiatives to be put in place (Earth), your resources such as teams and skills (Rocket) and finally the objectives (Moon) which are your strategic challenges.
- Using the pencil icon under each Speedboat proposal, you can change your column headings and even attach an image to the title.
- You can make your participants' answers anonymous.
- An also activate voting for your activity. Either by likes or points
Launch settings
To make your activity even more dynamic, you can choose to display a Stopwatch or a Timer (to determine the duration of your activity).
If you add a Stopwatch, the proposals will be displayed to your participants. You can make them visible for 5 seconds by clicking on “Display temporarily”.
Presentation settings
From here you can
- Activate the option to display the number of ideas live
Start and participate in your activity
In participant scroll mode (asynchronous mode), your Speedboat is automatically accessible as soon as your activity is recorded.
Proceed to the voting phase
Activity options
You can perform the following actions on your activity at any time:
In moderator mode, you can manually launch your activity by clicking on the green "Start" button at the top right of your slide.
To take part :
1. Select the place where you wish to place your idea
2. Write down this idea.
3. Then click on Send
Proceed to the voting phase
If you have selected the "Enable voting" option on your activity, you will have an initial phase of brainstorming and putting the different ideas online by clicking on "Start". Once all the ideas have been entered, you can proceed to the voting phase by clicking on the "Start polling" button at the top right, which has turned blue. Your participants will then be able to vote by likes or distribute points to the different ideas in the activity.
Once you click on "Stop polling" the activity will be closed to your audience.
Activity options
You can perform the following actions on your activity at any time:
- Reset
- Edit
- Duplicate
- Delete
The activity is not editable anymore once the answers have been saved.
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