GroupMap is a digital facilitation tool that creates collaborative, interactive workshops
We support industry best practice group facilitation techniques with templates that you can customize.
Easily create activities to suit your workshop activities and set the rules of engagement. Access a wide range of features that boost your facilitation toolbox and drive decision quality. Capture and share ideas, comments, votes, scores, images and files to create rich dialogue and drive evidence-based decisions.
GroupMap gives everyone a visual space to share and prioritise ideas in a safe and secure environment, face to face or online. Real-time results gives everyone more time to focus on meaningful conversations.
Get ready to think better together.
Want to create engaging workshops with impact? Here’s a little inspiration
Start from one of our 60+ templates or create your own that you can rinse and repeat. From design thinking and creative problem solving through to strategic planning or community consultation, GroupMap gives you the workshop tools to more effectively facilitate amazing conversations!
Ideas and solutions brainstorming
Design thinking and innovation workshops
Business planning and strategy
Community and group consultation
Conference breakout sessions
Audience polling and Q&A
Professional development and training
Ideas and solutions brainstorming
Judgement free, next level brainstorming without the bias
When you need the most creative ideas, honest answers or innovative solutions, GroupMap lets you create anonymous brainstorming sessions. Individual (or silent) brainstorming means that everyone can add their ideas and concepts without being influenced by others, including the boss! Share inspirations, pictures, hand-drawn images or notes without fear, production blocks or bias.
Design thinking and innovation workshops
Create new business models and evaluate prototypes
When developing a new product or services, GroupMap’s design thinking templates can be customized to help develop a customer focussed mindset. Create an empathy map or value proposition canvas or allow people to evaluate prototypes for real-time, fast iterative feedback.
Business planning and strategy
Transparent, effective strategic planning and evaluation
Capture your strategic planning goals to get people working on the same page. Strategies can be shared with clear objectives in mind to ensure alignment and strategies can be evaluated based on merit, not the loudest voice in the room. From a SWOT Analysis or PEST scan to strategy formulation and execution, GroupMap lets you have a clear evaluation process and a way to capture key discussion points.
Community and group consultation
Give everyone a voice, build consensus and identify blockages
Change can be challenging. GroupMap helps you meet that challenge by giving people an opportunity to voice their opinion and to tackle the barriers to change in a collaborative way. Whether it’s a conflict resolution map, anchors and engines exercise or simply to help contextualise the need for change, GroupMap provides a consultative workshop tool that helps ensure that people feel heard and listened to.
Conference breakout sessions
Capture and share thinking during breakout sessions
Easily create activities for breakout groups where people can share comments, ideas or solutions. Show this on the ‘big screen” with everyone to consider. Use a digital scribe or have people add their thoughts around key topics.
Audience polling and Q&A
Create engagement, excitement and interest
Run a quick poll or survey the audience and show results in real time, or get feedback from your workshop session at the end of the activity to help with continuous improvement of your workshop delivery.
Professional development and training
Learner-centred delivery made easy
Get people thinking, sharing and learning. Break down a case study, explore the issue from different perspectives or create a collaborative learning activity that requires people to work together. Create professional development sessions that get people talking, sharing and growing!
What people say
GroupMap… Powering collaboration and brainstorming around the world
Ease of use, and the opportunity to use [GroupMap] asynchronously over a longer period of time – so people could either contribute during a teleconference or in the week after if they couldn’t make it – were benefits we all appreciated from using GroupMap for our online brainstorming.
The best feedback I heard was from a group of 35 consultants who ended up using a GroupMap Open Space as a substitute for a personal meeting during the COVID-19 pandemic. They had doubts that a virtual open space would work. In the end, they came out with better and more results than in any physical meeting before.
GroupMap literally salvaged our virtual executive global event. We would not have been able to have our workshop nor accomplished as much without this tool.
Better brainstorming and group decision making
Seriously good facilitation
Effectively communicate key objectives and processes of your workshop with an instant tool kit of customisable visual templates.
Foster more meaningful conversations with a range of brainstorming styles, prioritisation techniques and audience engagement tools.
Save everyone time and money by reducing waste, improving decision quality and creating efficient workflows.
Powering up participants
Giving everyone a voice and for ideas to be shared without bias and for the collective wisdom of the crowd to become visible.
People feel heard, engaged and empowered whether they are in the same room or around the world.
Fast, reliable cross-browser and cross-device capability with nothing to download means that people can get started easily.
Accountable workshop outcomes
Enrich the conversations by capturing ideas from simple sentences to fully detailed concepts with images, descriptions links and categories.
Create an action-oriented workshop – add actions against ideas to move people forward.
Easily demonstrate workshop outcomes with tailored, exportable reporting from the whole session to a single idea.
Features designed for classrooms
Capture drawings, pictures, links and documents
Snap a picture of that incredible prototype or creative butchers paper output and encourage greater sharing, collaboration and creativity. Don’t let great ideas go to waste!
Group ideas to synthesize thinking for discussion
Find common themes and groupings for ideas. Discuss, synthesize and pull all similar ideas into a group. Decide between facilitator only or audience based grouping.
Prioritize ideas effectively and efficiently
From simple dot voting or a thumbs up/thumbs down vote to multi-variable weighted scoring, you see results instantly in order to build group consensus and know where to focus your time and energy.
Poll or survey your audience
There is no need to switch tools or applications. Capture a quick thought, run a check in / check out, poll the audience or evaluate your session. Get even more engagement and insights easily.
Save buckets of time with dynamic, exportable reporting
Download an image or PDF for an activity in just a click or customise the data you want for your reports and export it to Excel or CSV. Drill down to individual ideas or participant for a full detailed report or look across a range of ideas to see how they were evaluated and ranked.
Control the tech and focus the conversation
We believe that conversations and connections are key. GroupMap lets you lock the map, hide views or prevent further changes allowing you to “turn off the tech” and turn on the talk. When you are ready, bring everyone back to capture highlights. You can even use directed brainstorming to create a central capture point.
A safe space for everyone to share ideas
Trusted by banks, governments and universities through to professional facilitators, GroupMap uses 256-bit TLS security and meets GDPR And privacy laws to keep you, your data and your participants safe.
Manage bias and group think
Make ideas anonymous to encourage more honest or creative responses. Use individual brainstorming mode to manage social loafing and anchoring. All our voting and rating stages are done independently before results are revealed so that they are free from influence.
Create action items linked to ideas
One of the biggest complaints from workshop attendees is feeling like there were no take away actions. GroupMap has an optional action step that allows you to capture key action points against ideas that can be assigned a target date and owner. Export and share the report or take action items into a new map for further discussion.
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Ready to use
No need to download and install or create accounts. Works across browsers and devices.
Co-branding
Add your logo and a customised landing page to GroupMap.
Multiple facilitators
Great for concurrent sessions or just for an extra pair of hands.
Partner with us
We’ve have run workshops from 30 to 1,100 people. We can help design, support and co-facilitate.
Synchronous or asynchronous
Open up the process flow or manage participants through stages. The choice is yours.
Augment your video conferences and other online meeting tools like Skype, Zoom or Webex. GroupMap’s range of features makes it the chosen digital facilitation tool used by professional facilitators, consultants and workshop organizers from around the world.