Improve CSA/ERM
By utilizing an audience response system, you can quickly collect unfiltered and honest information from risk and control workshop groups. Internal audit professionals have used our systems for many years to improve workshop trust, participation, information and flexibility. Your CSA/ERM programs will be significantly enhanced with the addition of candid and highly accurate information.
Using wireless keypads, participants anonymously respond to interactive questions (created on-the-fly or prepared in OptionPower software) about risks in the work environment. While some of the benefit is derived from collecting polling data, the real power of our audience response system is evident when results are displayed to the group; everyone is able to see their collective opinion displayed after an anonymous poll. This knowledge creates open and honest discussion and gives you reliable, qualitative data to supplement polling results. OptionPower is not just a tool for discovering what everyone thinks, it helps find out why they think that way and then focuses on what should be done to eliminate risky practices.
Better Surveys
Strong companies rely on their employee feedback programs to measure the perceptions and opinions of their workforce. Many types of survey tools exist, some as paper-based forms and others more “hands on” like independent consulting teams. Yet, none have proven more effective than the combination of wireless keypads and OptionPower’s targeted survey application software.
The advantages of our real-time electronic group surveys are evident when compared to the costs and logistical requirements associated with other types of employee surveys. Imagine the benefit of eliminating the creation, printing, distribution and collection of surveys for the members of your entire company. Our system empowers participants with an anonymous (and therefore honest) voice and instant validation that helps them realize their opinion matters. Moreover, features such as impromptu questions and instant on-screen audience response graphs help foster new ideas and consensus with far greater efficiency than other survey methods. In fact, most forms of surveys offer little if any ability, once they’ve been distributed, to make changes or customizations to compensate for the needs of different employee divisions within a company.
Unlike other survey methods where you might wait weeks for results, our interactive surveys give you a rapid turnaround time and let you begin your comprehensive analysis quickly. All the data collected is available for analysis almost immediately and because our solutions work seamlessly with the Microsoft Office suite of products, accessing and sharing your employee satisfaction survey results is as simple as sending an email.
Improve Market Research
Interactive technology fundamentally improves the dynamics of focus groups and other customer listening sessions. Using wireless response keypads, participants answer interactive questions about various aspects of products, services or other marketing topics where key customer input is needed. Depending upon the type of research you are conducting, quantitative or qualitative, there are a variety of benefits that can be experienced:
INTERACTIVITY FOR QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS
- Accelerate data collection– Collect data from dozens (even hundreds) of participants in a fraction of the time it would take with standard survey instruments.
- Automatically process data– Polling results are instantly tabulated, saving the time and cost of manual compilation. Polling results can be instantly reviewed by participant demographics (gender, age groups, etc.).
- Display real-time results– Polling results are displayed instantly, providing immediate insight into the group’s opinions.
INTERACTIVITY FOR BLENDED QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS
- Live data display fosters stronger discussions– Polling data quickly shows collective opinion, but the real value comes from the discussions after results are displayed. This dynamic group interaction gives you valuable insight into consumer behavior.
- Honest input– Because the process is anonymous, people are willing to use the keypad to express their true voice.
- 100% participation– During an interactive question, our OptionPower software can display keypad numbers that haven’t responded, ensuring that everyone provides their opinion while maintaining anonymity.
Improve Town Meetings
The town meeting format can be highly effective when properly conducted, and OptionPower helps create rapid consensus or discover rifts in participants’ feelings and perceptions. Whether there is a need to analyze public opinion about social and political issues or to discover the feelings and attitudes of a company’s employees dealing with organizational changes, interactive meetings can make all the difference.
With OptionPower audience response systems, we can instantly produce live, on-screen results that nurture the feedback and opinions of everyone in the audience. Your audience data can be dissected by demographic variables to further drill down and discover where there is alignment or disparity of opinions. Our town meeting solutions ensure that each participant has an equal voice; no member fears negative consequences from speaking against the status quo.
Town meeting services are completely turnkey from creation to completion. We work closely with our clients to create the ideal mix of content and questions to enhance their meeting’s success. From ranking important issues to voting on the most popular ideas, we will put our experience and technology to work for you.
Check out this electronic voting PSA from the town of Eastham, Massachusetts. They have adopted our system to conduct town meetings and have a review of and an introduction to the system.
Improve Voting
Does it take you forever to elect your leadership? Are your paper ballots tedious to produce and process? Are last minute changes problematic? With our delegate voting system, you can elect your leaders in a fraction of the time and free yourself from the hassle of counting ballots.
Clients such as Delta Sigma Theta, AME, United Methodist and Holland & Knight have found that our electronic voting saves time and money. You can turn a two-day election filled with tension into a quick and relatively painless one-day or less process. Our system is straightforward and easy-to-use. We create an electronic ballot of candidates for each office and project it onto a screen. Each voter uses a handheld device to cast their vote. Votes are automatically tallied for each candidate and the results of the election are presented in either a printed or projected format. The process is repeated until all leaders are elected.
The OptionPower voting system is designed to block multiple votes for candidates, and will not allow delegates to place more than the number of votes allotted for an office. For offices with multiple openings, it automatically blocks a delegate from repeatedly voting for the same candidate. If an office has more than one position open, delegates are allowed to vote on multiple candidates for that office. As candidates are elected to office or dropped from the voting process the ballot is easily updated.
In some cases, you may want to track voters in attendance or capture how individuals vote on particular issues. In these cases a user roster is activated. This allows delegates to be pre-assigned to voting devices. Delegates’ attendance can be tracked easily for verification purposes. The process provides added security by giving you the ability to verify the voting delegates in attendance.
You can also use our systems to vote on referendums and quickly and easily determine the future direction of your organization. Some of the benefits include:
- Accurate tally of yes, no and abstain votes.
- Automated counting and documenting process.
- Flexibility to create new language for display and re-voting.
Improve Continuing Professional Education
Your organization invests significant time, money and resources in producing continuing education, assessment and compliance programs. What if you could easily create memorable, powerful experiences that would engage your audience, boost their knowledge and allow for immediate assessment and documentation?
INSTANT COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT
With OptionPower you can easily:
- Pre-test staff and doctors’ knowledge baseline.
- Assess comprehension during the program.
- Post-test retention and measure training impact.
AUTOMATED TRACKING
Stop spending so much of your time and resources manually administering CME, SAMs, CNE, CEU, CLE and other required educational credits:
- Automatically track your meeting participants and their completion of staff training, HIPAA-mandated courses and other compliance requirements.
- Easily access and use data for certificate preparation, credits reporting and audit verification.
INSTANT CASE STUDIES & BENCHMARKS
Easily transform existing case studies and grand rounds into dynamic, interactive presentations:
- 100% PowerPoint integration removes the learning curve and minimizes demand for IT assistance.
- Real-time engagement focuses the audience on the pearls the presenter wants to reinforce.
PAINLESS REPORTING
Focus your energy on essential tasks instead of data tabulation and output:
- Built-in report manager allows you to immediately see if the audience grasped the key points.
- Easily document interactive test scores for HIPAA compliance and medical education credits.
- Instantly export all data into Microsoft Excel format for convenient analysis.
- Eliminate the hassle of compiling and storing paper tests and have powerful, easy access to the results.
Improve Adult Training and Learning
Corporate trainers and other learning specialists face significant challenges in implementing effective employee training programs that create measurable skills and knowledge retention.
Learners can easily respond to questions placed throughout your presentation with PowerPoint-based OptionPower software and wireless handheld keypads. This process gives teachers and trainers the ability to gauge their learners’ comprehension and know instantly if the class has retained the information. The group’s responses appear on-screen after each question is polled, creating an opportunity for discussion, reflection and learning.
Our training solutions combine leading-edge technology with conventional lecture formats and proven teaching principles. OptionPower will help you:
- Boost Retention– Learners will have better focus and awareness, resulting in greater memory recall.
- Increase Attentiveness– Interactive presentations will hold participant interest by providing real-time data for discussion and analysis.
- Expand Participation– Participants will overcome the ‘shyness factor’ or fear of rejection by using keypads to voice their opinions.
- Reduce Training Time and Learning Curve– OptionPower will increase program efficiency by using instant assessments to determine each individual’s readiness for additional instruction or workplace implementation.
Our system is proven to convert passive audiences into active learners while greatly increasing their comprehension and test scores. Interactive training programs create a learning experience that is more engaging, thought-provoking and productive.
