Flows

Flows, developed by HeartLed, is a virtual planning and facilitation assistant designed to enhance the efficiency and engagement of meetings. According to the vendor, this tool aims to empower cooperation, intuition, and creativity within teams and organizations, unleashing true human potential. Flows is marketed as suitable for companies of all sizes, from small startups to large enterprises. It caters to a wide range of professions and industries, including leaders and managers, meeting facilitators, project managers, design thinkers, and service designers.

Key Features

Intuitive meeting planner: Flows provides an intuitive meeting planner that, according to the vendor, allows users to efficiently plan their meetings. Users can save time by reusing parts of previous meetings and easily incorporate premade blocks from a library into their meeting plans.

Better structured meeting: Flows helps users create better-structured meetings by providing a detailed and timeboxed agenda. Users can ensure a well-structured flow by knowing exactly how much time they have for each section of the meeting, with assistance and suggestions from the planning helpers, as claimed by the vendor.

Better meeting content: Flows offers block templates and a library of meeting methods, enabling users to enhance their meeting content. Users can choose the most suitable methods from the library for each meeting occasion, according to the vendor.

Stick to the agenda and reach the goals: Flows allows users to stay on track with the agenda and reach their meeting goals. Users can easily see where they are in the agenda, whether ahead or behind schedule, and connect the team with the agenda to foster collaboration and adherence to the plan. Flows also provides a visual progress feature to track the agenda's completion, as stated by the vendor.

The team that's focused and stays on topic: Flows helps keep the team focused and on topic by displaying the current activity and instructions. Participants can easily understand the team's current focus and how much time is left for each activity or agenda block, according to the vendor.

Increased speed and flow of your meeting: Flows enhances the speed and flow of meetings by providing time indicators for different parts or activities. It encourages the use of timeboxing and a built-in timer to ensure meetings stay on track. Flows also offers attention-grabbing tools to cut long monologues and maintain an engaging meeting atmosphere, as claimed by the vendor.

Facilitation dashboard: Flows provides facilitators with a dedicated dashboard to control the meeting flow. Facilitators can check the agenda, mark points as "done," observe time, start the timer, and show instructions to participants, according to the vendor.

Participant dashboard: Flows offers participants a dedicated dashboard to view the agenda, track progress, view instructions, and monitor the timer, as stated by the vendor.

Automated activity timer: Flows includes an automated activity timer that can be set for planned activities. It helps users keep track of time, ensuring they stay on schedule and adhere to the agenda, according to the vendor.

Integration with workflows: Flows seamlessly integrates with existing workflows, as claimed by the vendor. Users can open the Flows dashboard alongside other tools they are accustomed to using, allowing for a smooth workflow integration.