According to research from the University of North Carolina, 71% of managers consider meetings unproductive. But the problem isn’t just calendar bloat. The sessions that should drive impact — all-hands that build culture, training that develops skills, retrospectives that spark improvement — often feel like one-way presentations where most people tune out.
When participants zone out during these critical moments, organizations forfeit more than people’s time. They lose the collective intelligence that emerges when teams truly engage — the breakthrough ideas in brainstorms, the honest feedback in retros, the strategic insights from all-hands discussions. Research from Gallup suggests this engagement crisis costs the global economy nearly $9 trillion a year.
Miro Engage: Where engagement meets intelligence
At Miro, we believe every session — whether it’s a training workshop, quarterly all-hands, team retrospective, or client presentation — should generate value, not just consume time.
Our answer? Miro Engage, a new engagement solution designed to transform how teams run these sessions. It boosts participation through interactive activities and captures what people share where teams can actually use it — on the canvas where strategic work happens.
Unlike standalone engagement tools that fragment your workflow, Miro Engage lives where your work already lives. No context switching or tab jumping. Just collaborative experiences that flow right out of — and back into — the work you care about.
Non-Miro users can participate too, joining from any device via QR code. That means more perspectives, more insights, and greater strategic advantage from every session you run.
Here’s how Miro Engage transforms your workshops, all-hands, and training sessions.
Boost participation across any format
People tune out when sessions become lectures. Miro Engage keeps everyone involved with interactive activities like multiple-choice polls, word clouds, and open-ended questions.
Whether you’re running a training workshop with 20 people or a company all hands with 2,000, these activities visualize inputs in real-time so people can actually see the results of their actions. The result is a sense of co-creation that regular presentations can’t match. Anonymous contributions encourage honesty and surface insights that might otherwise stay hidden.
According to Charissa Van der Merwe, an Agile Coach at IKEA, Miro Engage has “revolutionized” meetings at the ionic Swedish retailer, “especially in conference settings with hundreds of participants. The platform’s ease in creating polls and voting increases engagement, and the team especially enjoys the fun and interactive emojis.”
Capture what matters, at any scale
The best workshops and all-hands generate breakthrough ideas, feedback, and strategic insights. But how many of those disappear because teams lack the tools to capture and act on them?
Miro Engage solves the problem by removing any technical barriers so absolutely anybody can participate and share their ideas. Even better, any insights uncovered in your workshop can instantly be exported to Miro as sticky notes so they’re easier to find, analyse, and put into action.
Kathleen Fenger, an Agile Coach at REWE Digital GmbH, has already seen the impact: “What’s particularly impressive is how low the barrier to entry has become for participants,” she says. “They can simply log in with their cell phones and start collaborating right away. As a facilitator, this means significantly more interaction, more energy in the room, and ultimately better results.”
Unite your entire session workflow
With Miro Engage, teams can create content, run interactive sessions, and analyze results in the same workspace where strategic work happens. No more juggling PowerPoint for content, Mentimeter for engagement, and Excel for analysis.
Facilitators aren’t trapped in a linear slide deck. They can zoom out for more context, explore new ideas in real-time, and follow the energy of the room without switching tools.
“You get instant visibility on the board,” says IKEA’s Charissa Van der Merwe, “allowing us to quickly identify topics needing attention.”
The power of Miro, built right in
Then there’s Miro Engage’s secret weapon — all the other parts of Miro that work seamlessly alongside it. Think AI to instantly identify key themes, uncover trends, and generate summaries. Interactive slides with spinner wheels, flipcards, diagrams, timelines, and videos to create truly impactful workshops.
A library of expert and community templates makes it easy to find fresh ideas for engagement without starting from scratch. And of course you can connect workshop outcomes to existing projects, boards, and documentation.
The complete Miro Engage experience: From prep to insights
Imagine you’re running a quarterly strategy workshop. Here’s how Miro Engage and Miro work together to make it effortless and impactful.
Prep in minutes, not hours. Import your PowerPoint deck into Miro Slides and edit it right on the canvas. Ask an AI sidekick to review your content and suggest where to add polls or icebreakers. Since everything’s on the board, you and your co-presenters can refine content together in real time.
Build engagement your way. Drop in Miro Engage activities like word clouds or multiple choice polls. Add Miro widgets like spinner wheels or alignment scales for extra visual interest. Need to explain a concept? Add diagrams or timelines directly into your slides. Mix and match whatever works for your session.
Run it smoothly. Guide participants through your slides and activities for a seamless experience. Need to show something that’s not in your slides, like a project timeline on the board? Just zoom out, show it, then zoom back in. Everyone stays oriented while getting the full context.
Make sense of feedback instantly. After the session, export all responses as sticky notes and organize them with your team. Ask AI to cluster feedback by theme or generate suggested next steps.
Learn across sessions. Here’s where it gets really useful. You’ve run this workshop three times with different teams on the board. Select sticky notes from all sessions and use AI to find patterns across groups. Spot organization-wide trends and track how themes change over time.
Get data-driven decks in seconds. Need to share findings with leadership? Ask AI to create a summary deck from your cross-session insights. You’ve got data-driven intelligence, not just meeting notes.
Why this matters. This only works because Engage lives in Miro. Prep flows into delivery, delivery into analysis, insights into action. Individual sessions build into organizational intelligence. That’s what happens when your engagement tool lives where your work actually happens.
Miro Engage is free during beta for users on all plans. Get started today and unlock what’s possible when everyone participates.
