How many times have you sat through meetings for hours without the discussions heading anywhere? How many times have you missed lunch, your coffee breaks or have left office hours after you would normally do due to overstretched meetings?
The truth is that despite the importance of time and everyone’s awareness of that reality, meetings tend to stretch. Often, meetings stretch because of pointless discussions. It is not uncommon for meetings to achieve absolutely nothing, even after hours of toiling of the best brains in an organization. All that can now be countered or managed with Qoffee.
Qoffee is an app designed to facilitate meetings and to trim them, to make them more objective and meaningful. Here’s what the app does or can do.
Meeting times can be set democratically by asking every participant or attendee to vote on the time. No more meetings after work or during lunch time. What everyone would have to do will be based on consensus and that would seldom be wrong. Have meetings at times that suit most people and for a duration that is agreed to by all. Breakfast meetings don’t need to be stretched till lunch and afternoon meetings don’t have to end at dinnertime.
Qoffee allows everyone in a group or those designated to attend a meeting to post notes and to fix the agenda. Thus, the entire agenda of the meeting is not merely what someone decides on. It is agreed to by everyone whose opinion matters, unless of course there is a directive from the management to have a certain agenda which is not flexible.
Qoffee also allows people to vote on discussions while the meeting is on, in real time, and the topics or subjects that get the maximum votes can be discussed further. More importantly, every discussion can be of a certain preset duration which will again be voted on by all involved to set a timeline for every specific phase within a meeting.
This app works in sync for every individual attending a meeting and the real time determining of popular or majority opinion is a guide to keep meetings short and precise, objective and meaningful.
Qoffee is a wonderful app, ideal for those who lose track of time, either due to compulsion or by choice. However, Qoffee has some shortcomings such as one cannot make notes or record the minutes of a meeting.
