Electronic Voting Services
TeamTalk and its associates can provide various electronic voting services that range from light-hearted quiz sessions for small social events through to sophisticated interventions where organisations need to gain serious opinions from many hundreds of stakeholders. In the former example we act as a service provider and in the latter we act more as a consultant who can advise and help design the electronic voting sessions as well as advise on the questions to ask and just as importantly how to ask them.
We can use our experience and knowledge to help you get the most from your
meetings and we act more as a partner rather than a service provider.
Suggested Uses of Electronic Voting
The Reply system can be used in many different ways depending on the situation. The following suggestions are aimed at giving you some ideas on how you could use the Reply system in some of your meetings.
General Training & Education Sessions: The intangible benefits of using the Reply system include generating greater interaction between the trainers and the participants, keeping the participants alert, switched on and above all awake. The tangible benefits include allowing the trainer to see in real time how the participants are doing and how they are absorbing the learning points. You can also run a quick multiple choice type test after the training session and print out a report that shows how people have done. It has been shown in research projects that average exam and test marks in subjects where students used this type of technology can be between 8 and 28% higher than in the exam subjects that did not use this type of technology.
Specialist Training Sessions: In many areas such as the Financial Services Industry or Health and Safety training it is necessary for participants to obtain a minimum mark to pass tests and gain the necessary qualifications. By adding a roster file to the question file and making sure that participants get a specific keypad that is dedicated to them it will be possible to track individual's results.
Sales Conferences: Use the Reply system to ask the attendees questions about customer's opinions of the company and its products; about their views of the competitors and the customer's views of the competitors. Maybe during new product training sessions present the new products to the participants and train them in the features. Alternate the leaning points with questions back to the participants on the features of the new products thus seeing how they are absorbing the learning points.
Staff Meetings: Many organisations now carry out regular staff briefing sessions, and immediate feedback from staff can be gained on subjects raised in these sessions. Questions can range from "Did you receive the report of the last meeting", through to "Do you believe what the management team is telling you". The Reply system can be used to ask staff their views on issues, on a scale of say Strongly Disagree, through to Strongly Agree, and the immediate results obtained then allow management to ask questions to discover why the staff thing the way they do. Management could use the Reply system to ask a series of questions to discover the staff's opinions on subjects at the beginning of the meeting, give a briefing on the subjects during the meeting, take questions and then use the Reply system again to see if there has been any change in the views of the staff.
Market Research: Put issues to focus groups on various subjects, make use of the demographic capability to split the groups into demographic units, ask them questions to get an immediate response, then start the discussion on the opinions gained.
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