Miro got me an MBA

Given the pandemic my entire MBA year had been moved online. One of my syndicate mates had briefly used Miro in a workshop and was a serious advocate. I had used it here and there in my work as a social development facilitator but never in much detail. We persuaded our team to try it and though there were obvious learning curves to overcome soon Miro became like a second language to us. We managed to work much faster to discuss everything from group position papers that we were writing as a team, designing a new business model and several case analysis assignments together. We also used Miro to co-create our group presentation decks and sometimes when the task was to give feedback we were able to quickly show our actual Miro board that we had the discussion around and provide a visual aid to what would have been a difficult conversation to follow. Our lecturers were always very impressed and excited about how we worked together and we would not have been as successful without Miro. We even eventually rubbed off on other syndicates who started trying it out as well. I think that Miro should be adopted and its use encouraged by universities who hope to facilitate learning online in the future.

Although the only way we’ve ever worked as a team was online we had other teams who weren’t using Miro to compare our progress with and hands down Miro was what made our year so successful. We were a group of complete strangers able to quickly share ideas and make decisions in a fairly democratic way, by encouraging everyone to participate visually and be active on the Miro board all views and ideas get captured, something that takes ages using any other process and even in person. I honestly feel like in-person collaboration can never be as effective as Miro.