ThinkHub MultiSite enables real-time, room-to-room collaboration across up to 10 office locations, making it ideal for globally distributed teams. Here are some key ways teams can leverage ThinkHub MultiSite for effective collaboration:
1. Global Organizations
For global organizations, ThinkHub MultiSite offers an unparalleled platform to ensure seamless collaboration across regions. With all locations connected in real-time, each team can see updates to the shared Canvas immediately, regardless of geographic distance.
- Live Updates Across Time Zones: MultiSite allows globally distributed teams to work simultaneously on a shared Canvas. Teams in different countries can contribute to the same document, strategy session, or workflow, ensuring everyone is aligned with the latest information and goals.
- Effective Collaboration Without Travel: Reduce the need for international travel by connecting offices worldwide through MultiSite. Teams can interact as if they were in the same room, reducing costs and logistical complications.
Pro Tip: Save Canvases after each meeting to keep track of progress across multiple regions. Teams can resume work from where they left off in the next meeting, eliminating the need for lengthy follow-ups.
2. Strategy and Planning Teams
ThinkHub MultiSite enhances the productivity of strategy and planning teams, enabling them to collaborate on long-term goals and tactical planning in real-time, regardless of location.
- Building Comprehensive Strategies: Teams across different locations can come together to contribute to a shared strategy. MultiSite allows for live annotations, brainstorming sessions, and real-time input from multiple offices, ensuring every stakeholder is on board.
- Visualizing Long-Term Plans: Strategy teams can map out multi-year business plans or product roadmaps on a single shared Canvas. Everyone can see and interact with the same visual elements including goals and live dashboards (such as timelines, metrics, etc) making planning more interactive and engaging.
Pro Tip: Build and save structured Canvas layouts that support strategic planning sessions, ensuring key milestones and objectives are front and center for all participants.
3. National Organizations
For national organizations with multiple offices across regions, ThinkHub MultiSite helps each location align and work toward the same objectives.
- Unified National Teams: With MultiSite, national organizations can hold company-wide meetings or workshops with all regional offices connected in real-time. This feature is particularly useful for company updates, national strategy rollouts, or training sessions where consistent messaging is critical.
- Real-Time Updates Across Locations: Whether hosting a training session or a national planning meeting, ThinkHub MultiSite allows each regional office to collaborate on the same Canvas, ensuring alignment across all levels of the organization.
Pro Tip: Use saved Canvases to track progress across multiple regions. By maintaining a consistent record of decisions and updates, all offices stay informed and aligned with national goals.
4. Remote and Traveling Employees
ThinkHub MultiSite allows remote or traveling employees to fully participate in meetings, reducing the friction often caused by working from different locations.
- Seamless Integration for Remote Workers: MultiSite supports both in-room and remote participants, meaning that employees working from home or on the road can contribute just as effectively as those in the office. They can access and interact with the shared Canvas, ensuring they remain fully engaged.
- Connecting Traveling Employees: Whether employees are working from a hotel, another office, or a client site, they can still join and participate in important strategy meetings or project discussions through MultiSite.
Pro Tip: Encourage remote participants to use ThinkHub’s digital tools such as annotations and notes to contribute to the Canvas, keeping them fully integrated into the collaboration process.
5. Headquarters to Multiple Locations
ThinkHub MultiSite is ideal for organizations with a central headquarters that needs to communicate and collaborate with multiple satellite offices.
- Headquarters and Regional Office Collaboration: MultiSite allows headquarters to maintain constant communication with regional offices across the country or the world. Whether it’s sharing updates, discussing regional performance, or planning for the future, all teams stay aligned.
- Streamlining Decision-Making: MultiSite enables quick decision-making by allowing all offices to collaborate on the same Canvas. There’s no need for lengthy email threads or fragmented communication—everything happens live and in one place.
Pro Tip: Use MultiSite for monthly or quarterly strategy sessions to bring all regional offices into the loop. Save Canvases after each session to create a continuous record of discussions and decisions.
6. Customer Support Teams
MultiSite is a game-changer for customer support teams spread across different locations. Whether it’s resolving customer issues or training new team members, this tool enables real-time collaboration on shared customer data and workflows.
- Solving Customer Issues in Real Time: Support teams across multiple locations can use MultiSite to collaborate on difficult customer cases, ensuring that all stakeholders are up to date with the latest information. They can work together on a shared Canvas to brainstorm solutions and troubleshoot issues.
- Customer Support Training: MultiSite is also useful for running training sessions across distributed support teams. The ability to share training materials, customer support workflows, and live troubleshooting sessions ensures that everyone, regardless of location, is equipped with the same knowledge.
Pro Tip: Use the recording and save functions to capture complex customer case discussions. This allows support teams to revisit conversations and follow up on important issues more effectively.
7. External Guests
ThinkHub MultiSite makes it easy to collaborate with external guests such as clients, partners, or consultants, providing a secure and interactive space for cross-organization meetings.
- Seamless Client Collaboration: Invite external guests to join your MultiSite session without needing complex setups. Clients can easily connect to the shared Canvas via the T1V, where they can contribute ideas and view progress in real-time, regardless of where they’re located.
- Partner and Vendor Alignment: When working on joint projects with external partners or vendors, MultiSite allows both internal and external teams to contribute to the same Canvas. This ensures full transparency and seamless collaboration, helping to avoid communication breakdowns.
Pro Tip: Use ThinkHub’s integration with video conferencing tools to host a fully interactive virtual or hybrid meeting with external guests, allowing them to present their own content and collaborate as easily as if they were in the room.