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Integrating Audience Response Systems Into Your Meeting

Integrating Audience Response Systems Into Your MeetingMaking an Impact – How Using Interactivity can Add Value to Your Next Meeting

Someone may have said to you, "Wouldn't it be neat to use wireless keypads to get some feedback in our next meeting?" The question then becomes: "How do we use this incredibly powerful technology in a way that adds value?"


Using the list below, select the outcome you hope to achieve by using interactive audience response technology in your next meeting.



Help us add to our list of outcomes! If you don’t see one that matches what you are trying to accomplish in your meeting, email us your suggestion to service@optiontechnologies.com








Outcome: Decision-Making
 [Make the best choice given a list of alternatives]

Recommended Solution:
Focused Decision-Making Process
Recommended Tool:
OptionFinder
Recommended Service:
On-site consultant

In a focused decision-making process, participants evaluate/rank long lists of ideas or initiatives with OptionFinder, our interactive audience response system that contains specific tools to assist in a group decision-making meeting. An on-site consultant will help you design ranking exercises and facilitate discussion, if desired.

Examples:
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List of Values to Rank
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Polling a Value Against a Scale of Importance
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Results by Importance
(1 criteria graph of polling results)
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Importance vs. Capability
(2 criteria graph of polling results)


Learn more about Decision Support








Outcome: Audience Voting
 [Electing candidates to office or voting on referendums]

Recommended Solution:
Rapid, Cost-Effective Election Process
Recommended Tool:
MeetingNet Delegate Voting
Recommended Service:
On-site consultant

By far the fastest and most cost-effective way to conduct an election. Using wireless group response systems in your next meeting, and your voting delegates can quickly select from long lists of candidates. Results can be tabulated so quickly that the time spent you usually spend on elections can be cut by as much as 90%.

Learn more about Audience Voting Systems











Outcome: Market Research
 [Receive better information from focus groups]

Recommended Solution:
Collaborative Insight Market Research
Recommended Tool:
OptionFinder
Recommended Service:
On-site consultant

You’ll never get more useful, actionable information out of a market research session than you will using audience response keypad technology. Interactivity will not only help you collect better quantitative data from your participants, it has been shown to increase discussions that will lead to the all-important qualitative information your organization needs to give you improved insight into consumer behavior. An on-site consultant will help organization leaders design content and help facilitate discussion, if desired.










Outcome: Presentation Support
 [Involve, engage, or entertain participants]

Recommended Solution:
Customized Interactive Game
Recommended Tool:
MeetingNet Group Competition Module

Many clients are engaging meeting participants with a customized interactive game show. These are based on today’s hottest TV games and allow multiple teams to compete against each other. Participants will respond to game show questions using wireless audience response systems. The responses are instantly tabulated by a multimedia computer system. Scoreboards are displayed on large video projection screens for all to see.

Typically, a corporate celebrity or host presides over the program, much like a television quiz show. Question and answer options appear on-screen. Members of the audience indicate their answer by using an wireless group response system. Individual, regional, or district scores are instantly tabulated and available for display.










Outcome: Education
 [Improve continuing medical education programs]

Recommended Solution:
Interactive Case Studies/Board Reviews
Recommended Tool:
MeetingNet or OptionFinder
Recommended Service:
On-site consultant

Successful CME! Interactivity has a very positive impact on a physician’s education experience. Speakers present different case studies and ask for everyone to choose the correct diagnosis. Polling results (right/wrong answers) are displayed immediately for discussion. At the conclusion of the meeting, physicians are given an individual summary of their performance.

Learn more about Interactive CME










Outcome: Sales Training
 [Motivate sales staff for new product launch]

Recommended Solution:
Group Competition
Recommended Tool:
MeetingNet GameShow
Recommended Service:
On-site consultant

This accomplishes two things: (1) Gets sales staff excited about products or organization initiatives, and (2) provides sales leaders with valuable information about group or individual knowledge of products and other offerings. Divide your sales group into teams and test their knowledge of your products or organization. their knowledge o Sales training sessions or product launch meetings a memorable and rewarding with an interactive game show experience! Your attendees will pay closer attention and walk away remembering more of your key points. Everyone involved will enjoy the exciting competitive experience! Option Technologies offers a variety of audience response participation game show options for live events.










Outcome: Survey
 [Get feedback from employees or constituent groups]

Recommended Solution:
Town Hall Feedback Session
Recommended Tool:
MeetingNet, OptionPower, or OptionFinder
Recommended Service:
On-site consultant

Imagine a meeting where you could quickly find out what everybody believes about anything… Using interactivity to gauge group perception will help you receive some truly compelling information from participants. Used for employee climate surveys, town hall meetings, and customer feedback sessions, this form of interactive group response feedback encourages honest responses and open discussion about key issues. More importantly, interactivity will let you go beyond simply finding out what everyone thinks. You’ll discover why they think that way and then be able to focus on what should be done.

Learn more about Town Hall Meetings


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