Guide structured sessions and keep teams focused, engaged, and productive. Run workshops, retrospectives, and planning sessions with facilitation tools that manage flow, participation, and outcomes.
Made for Facilitation
Facilitating a session means managing flow, participation, timing, and outcomes at the same time. Spreo is designed to support facilitators directly, giving them control over the session while keeping participants focused, engaged, and contributing throughout.
Activity frames define each phase of the session, allowing the facilitator to reveal activities progressively and guide participants through a clear flow.
Host controls allow the facilitator to move participants to the current activity, manage what they see, and keep attention on the task at hand.
Private writing and anonymous modes help balance participation, giving quieter team members space to contribute independently.
Visible timers keep the session on track, helping the facilitator manage time without constant reminders or interruptions.
Built-in controls handle mechanics like revealing activities, managing tools, and tracking readiness, so the facilitator can focus on the discussion.
Actions are assigned during the session and tracked with reminders, ensuring follow-up after the workshop.
Workshop facilitation is the practice of guiding a group through a structured session — managing the agenda, keeping time, ensuring participation, and driving toward a clear outcome.
The facilitator is responsible for setting up the session, guiding participants through each phase, managing group dynamics, and capturing outcomes. This applies across many types of sessions, including retrospectives, planning, brainstorming, and strategy workshops.
The facilitator chooses a template that matches the session goal, with structure already built into the board. Teams can start contributing straight away without the facilitator needing to set up activities from scratch.
Meeting Mode is activated, giving the facilitator access to host controls to manage the session and guide participants. The facilitator can control what participants see, move the group to the current activity, and manage the pace of the session.
Activity frames define the phases of the session, allowing the facilitator to reveal activities one at a time. Participants follow a clear structure from writing and discussion through to voting, decisions, and actions.
The facilitator can move participants to the current activity, use readiness checks, and control available tools to keep everyone aligned and engaged throughout the session.
Timers are visible to all participants, helping manage time without interrupting the flow of discussion or requiring the facilitator to call out time manually.
Actions are created during the session, assigned to team members, and tracked with reminders and carry-forward into future sessions, so nothing is lost after the meeting ends.
What the teams who use Spreo every week say about it
Enno Peters
Agile Coach, Architrave GmbH
I have a hard time picturing my work as a fully remote Agile Coach without Spreo.
The contribution and alignment it brings to the teams and people I work with every day is exceptional. This tool is the best remote adaption there is for creative and collaborative whiteboard meetings, which we all enjoyed so much before the pandemic.
Thanks Spreo for this outstanding tool, which makes my daily work so much more effective and enjoyable.
Alexa Lautenbacher
Agile Coach
I love that Spreo is designed simple and yet offers many smart features to make workshops more valuable and effective, such as hidden content writing, easy clustering, timeboxing and last but not least the confetti cannon!
Jason Martin
Agile Coach, Meltwater
Spreo improves the way I work.
There are constant requests to ‘facilitate a meeting for a topic’ and it doesn’t matter what is asked for, I know I can build a board for that. If you want to have a very structured, formally-designed meeting, Spreo has tools for that. Or if you want to have a bit of a free for all, figure it out as you go meeting, there are tools for that too.
Jakob Edholm
Freelance Agile Coach
As an agile coach I need a tool that is easy for my teams to use, and advanced enough for me as a facilitator so I can set my workshops the way I want them.
Spreo has a well-balanced blend between user-friendlyness, productivity and fun! Also, the people behind this great service have been very nice and open for discussing improvements and future features.
It’s a pleasure using Spreo and I use it for most of my retros and workshops, many times every week!
Theda-Marie Howaldt
Agile Coach, Haiilo
Spreo is an integral part of our daily business - and not to forget the confetti tool - our teams love it!
We at Haiilo started using Spreo during the pandemic to connect and collaborate effectively in a remote setting.
We are now a global company with different locations and a larger team so it becomes even more important to have a tool in place that can be easily rolled-out without much user onboarding. With Spreo our teams conduct constructive workshops and meetings of all kinds and for multiple needs.
Patrice Roux-Caillebot
Consultant-facilitator - Innovation and collaborative design
I am a collaborative processes designer and facilitator, working for french organizations, both public and private.
In 2020, when face-to-face meetings had to stop because of the pandemic, I was looking for the most efficient solution to run remote workshops. And I found it!
Of all the apps I tested, Spreo is the best suited for my needs and those of my clients. It’s just the perfect tool to easily create well-designed boards and engage people online. And I can’t wait for the next features (yes, it’s still improving!) Rich and simple, performant and fun: Spreo has it all!
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