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Governance tips, product updates, and best practices for committees and boards.
Kutamo v5: a major release built for Rotary, Lions and every service club
The biggest release in Kutamo's history — live meetings, configurable minutes, real-time poll charts, video and transcription, and pricing that respects the people running the meetings that deliver the dictionaries, the eye tests, and the sausage sizzles.
How to create actions for your team members and track their progress
Creating actions and assigning them to your team members lets you keep track of important business decisions.
Meeting Productivity Goals
Productivity has been broadly defined as 'Using minimum input to achieve maximum output'. Adjusted for our modern vernacular: 'Applying minimum resources to achieve maximised targeted outcomes'
How to use polls and decisions to improve your meeting decisions
Whilst running a meeting, you can create multiple polls and decisions to help your team decide on important business decisions.
Why are we building Kutamo?
Over the last 25 years in business, I’ve run countless meetings with staff, clients and vendors, with participants ranging from 2 people to over 30.
Creating a board or meeting attendance report
Keeping track of who has attended or missed meetings is critical to board and committee reports.
How to write meeting minutes
Taking notes during a meeting and writing minutes is never simple, but Kutamo aims to try and make your life easier.
Using Kutamo as a Secure Data Room
A Data Room is a secure, virtual environment where one party can disclose confidential information and data to other parties, typically during a M&A or Due Diligence activity.
We've had a makeover!
We're proud to announce the launch of our new website and application, which has had a complete makeover - a new layout, new functionality and easier than ever to use.
Why Video Conferencing Is Necessary For Twenty-First Century Companies
Conferencing software provides a professional communication method that allows you to have face-to-face meetings. It instantly projects an image of professionalism, success, and of course, an up-to-date office.
Kutamo introduces Audio & Video Conferencing
Each week or so we provide an update on new features, changes and things that have happened at Kutamo.
Why Big Companies Should Run Their Meetings Like Startups
Apple is no longer a startup, but that doesn’t mean companies can’t apply its methods from its startup days. One practice Steve Jobs made famous was the “Directly Responsible Individual” method.
Poor Sales? Surprisingly, You May Need More Meetings
If your sales numbers are lagging, it’s time to call some more meetings. We know, we know. More meetings? Isn’t the prevailing wisdom to hold fewer meetings?
How Bad Meetings Are Draining Your Company’s Talent
Great employees are the lifeblood of your company. They’re the people who see a problem and go, “Don’t worry, I have an idea.” So when these stars give their two weeks notice and announce they’re moving on, it’s a big blow.
Can Better Meetings Increase a Startup’s Chances of Funding?
In recent years, there’s been a nostalgia-fuelled resurgence in the popularity of physical notebooks. But nostalgia is no reason to sacrifice convenience. Your leatherbound journal is fantastic for documenting that trip to Paris, but when it comes to recording, sharing, and building on your ideas, digital notes are the way to go.
Managing Candidate Interviews with Kutamo
Kutamo can be used to streamline and standardize your candidate interviews and HR processes.
5 Reasons Why Digital Notes Beat Handwritten Notes
In recent years, there’s been a nostalgia-fuelled resurgence in the popularity of physical notebooks. But nostalgia is no reason to sacrifice convenience. Your leatherbound journal is fantastic for documenting that trip to Paris, but when it comes to recording, sharing, and building on your ideas, digital notes are the way to go.
Why Meeting Minutes Are In Serious Need of a Makeover
What do typewriters, carbon paper, and switchboard operators have in common? They’re all vintage office features that have since been replaced.
Measurable Outcomes: Making Meetings Into Productivity Engines
Ensure that you make meetings matter. Leave nothing in this easily solvable and critical requirement to chance. We work in an Age of Automation, automate the distribution and collaboration processes of your meetings and following consultations.
How To Prevent Meetings From Draining Your Company’s Time
Meetings are tricky things. They can be both logistically necessary and a serious time drain. And in a world where time is money you simply can’t afford to run an enterprise where your talent sits around and spends an hour “touching base”.
Go Ahead - Take a Seat At Your Next Scrum Meeting
In this game called, “How to Run a Good Meeting” managers find cheat codes everywhere. One of these popular “cheats” is the advice to hold your meetings standing up.
How to Give Quiet Contributors a Voice in Loud Meetings
Meetings elicit different responses from different people. For extroverts, it’s an opportunity to confidently share ideas with colleagues. Conversely, introverts face an uncomfortable environment where they’re forced to shoot out thoughts when they’d rather take a moment to reflect.