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Share team content using one address

Need to share the same information with your team members across the globe? Make communication about ideas and developments easier by creating a Google Groups email list for your team. Then, instead of emailing people individually, use the group’s email address to send everyone status updates and share resources—such as team calendars in Google Calendar and documents in Google Drive.

 

Brainstorm together in a shared document

Brainstorming ideas is easier when everyone can share information in one place and give instant feedback. Create a document that serves as a blank canvas for your team's ideas using Google Docs. Outline the information to be collected in the document and share with everyone (such as through your Groups email address). Edit together in real-time, chat within files, and get targeted feedback using comments and suggestions. Then, invite each team member to mark the ideas they like best–the idea with the most votes is the winner.

 

Store brainstorm documents in one place

Want an easy way to securely store and share your team’s brainstorm resources? In Drive or shared drives, save all your team’s files in one folder, then share them instantly with your team’s Groups email address. When someone makes a change, Drive shows you what files have changed. Team members can securely access the latest files remotely on any device, at any time.

 

Prepare team members for meetings

Prepare team members by giving them a chance to preview relevant files before brainstorming sessions. When you send a meeting invitation to your co-workers in Calendar, attach documents, spreadsheets, presentations, agendas, and more—so everyone on the team is ready to contribute ideas.

 

Discuss ideas in a video meeting

Want to brainstorm live with your remote team members? Start a Google Meet video meeting. Prepare everyone in advance by sharing a document outlining agenda items. During the meeting, showcase an idea by sharing your screen. With Meet, you can use breakout rooms to divide participants into smaller groups. Team members can participate in smaller group discussions before rejoining the original meeting.

 

Vote for winning ideas

After you’ve narrowed down the top ideas from a brainstorming session, ask your team to pick the winning idea in a Google Forms survey. View survey responses in Forms or Google Sheets—the built-in data summaries and charts make it easy to see which ideas are the most popular.

 

Keep track of ideas & tasks

Keep everyone on the team up-to-date on brainstorming sessions by tracking ideas and assigning tasks. Use Sheets to list ideas and allocate tasks to team members as the project takes off. Now, everyone can access the latest concepts, assignments, and due dates in one place and stay informed about new ideas and changing schedules.

 

Build your brainstorming site

Want to better manage future projects arising from your team’s brainstorming sessions? With Google Sites, you can keep track of brainstorming discussions by creating a dedicated project site that team members can update. Easily embed brainstorm documents, meeting notes, project schedules, and more so you can watch the whole project evolve over time.

 

Present a powerful pitch

Want to present a winning idea to your team in a brainstorming session? Have a winning idea already but need to get buy-in from external stakeholders? Create a powerful presentation to get your message across using Google Slides. Add graphs, images, videos, and links to make an impactful presentation. Share ideas with your team and get constructive feedback instantly. If your organization has Gemini for Google Workspace, you can use Gemini in Slides to generate slides and images. Or, use Google Vids to create, edit, update, and collaborate on a video pitch.


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