Ask a question in the first two minutes, and use interactive slide formats like open ended questions or word clouds whenever you need input. Put decisions to a Ranking vote or Multiple Choice format, and start an anonymous Q&A session for the questions that matter most.

Add the Mentimeter app to Microsoft Teams to run polls, word clouds, quizzes and more inside the Teams meeting window, without anyone leaving the call or opening a second tab.

Good check-in questions are quick to answer, low-stakes, and reveal something useful. Six that work in most teams:

• What is one word for how your week is going?

• What is taking up most of your attention right now?

• On a scale of one to five, how clear are you on this quarter's priorities?

• What is one thing you need from someone else this week?

• What went better than expected since we last met?

• What should we spend the most time on today?

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Open Q&A submission before the all-hands starts. Let attendees upvote each other's questions, allow anonymous submission, and use moderation to screen any questions before they hit the screen. Close with a short-pulse poll so you can compare sentiment across quarters.

A meeting reflection is a short structured review at the end of a meeting or project, where the team assesses what worked, what did not, and what to change. Formats that work well for reflection sessions include Start-Stop-Continue, Rose-Thorn-Bud or a simple two-part question: What went well? What would we change?

Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet are video conferencing software. Miro and Mural are infinite-canvas whiteboards for visual and asynchronous work. Mentimeter is a presentation tool first, where interactive tools are built inside the same deck you present from rather than alongside it. Slido is the closest direct alternative, offering live polling and Q&A.

Absolutely. Responses in Mentimeter are anonymous by default. Because results are saved automatically, you can run the same set of questions each month and track how sentiment moves rather than relying on a single snapshot.

No. Team members join from any browser by scanning a QR code or entering the join code at menti.com. Only the person building and presenting the meeting needs a Mentimeter account, which makes it easy to include contractors, new starters or people from other organisations.