Gamification: for example by allowing participants to provide positive feedback to other participants (similar to liking a post on Facebook or “kudos” in some online communities). Depending on the group’s preferences or organizational policy, these tokens of appreciations could be awarded in private (reassuring participants of the value of their contributions) or visible for all participants (increasing the participant’s reputation).
Benefits:
- meetings can easily be dominated by the most vocal participants while important contributions may be less prominent, leaving the producer of such contribution uncertain (or even giving a negative impression) about the value of what they said. This can be somewhat counterbalanced through low threshold “likes”.
- If the total number of likes (or average likes per meeting) is made public in an organization, members of the organization have an incentive to make valued contributions in order to obtain recognition.