Depending on the nature of the pre-meeting outreach you conduct with participants, it can promote team collaboration and help:
- Get to know participants better and figure out how to best work with them
- Gain a sense of what people already think
- Learn what insights the participants already have and don’t have
- Find out what you need to figure out or research ahead of time
- Look for areas where you agree so you can make it seem like your ideas are theirs, creating greater ownership Identify strong ideas upfront so you are ready to listen for and act on them in the larger group meeting
