Sessions are meetings or structured milestones to accomplish a specific goal in a project. Team members are invited to the session to promote synchronization and cohesiveness, while maintaining fair process and transparent communication.

Using Nova, sessions are linked to an innovation tool, providing a system so the team can focus on a particular objective, optimizing their way of thinking before moving to the next step in the process.

Key information

• Sessions are created by selecting a tool, adding a date, inviting the team and providing instructions to the team.
• Sessions will be active on the starting date. The team, however, can start preparing for the session beforehand if necessary. The Session Lead, in this case, needs to communicate with the team ensuring they understand their objectives and tasks.
• When the session is active, the team can start following the instructions, where team members will need to participate in each step.
• Participation is not the same as commenting during the session. Nova wants teams to focus on optimizing processes so team members can use other apps to communicate and chat. When participating during the session, they need to provide their most authentic answers, which can be edited and modified while the step is open.
• The Session Lead will be guiding the team through the steps, summarizing and selecting the information. When each team member has completed their part, the Session lead will mark that step as completed.
• Team members or the session lead will close the session by adding a conclusion – which clarifies and summarizes the information. Step answers and/or summaries can be added to the final conclusion.