Is the training program for you employees being described as dull and unexciting?. Does your company’s board meetings actually mean bored meetings?. Are audience feedback and feedback hard to come by from the participants of your corporate events and conferences?. Well, this should not be a problem now with all the audience feedback systems available in the market today.
A type of interaction between the speaker or facilitator and his or her audience using a device called audience response systems or ARS is called audience response. As interactive presentations it is a tool that has a powerful way of connecting and communicating to large audience during meetings or events. More importantly, it has been a proven method to help increase learning, knowledge retention, build consensus and make valuable decisions.
A very useful apps in an audience response is its interactive polling. Audiences are more likely to be attentive, involve and interested through interactive polling. The participant will remain anonymous which is important to some who doesnt want to publicly share their opinions since audience responses, feedbacks and voting are done via handheld device. Decision-making and voting can be made faster because ther is immediate access to polling which could make a lot of savings for the event in terms of cost.
Crowdcomms, one audience response provider, has a flexible polling and audience response systems that can be used through smartphone technology and can be built to suit your different needs. Almost everybody now is using smartphone which makes this application very important. Just like your traditional audience response devices, with the Mobile Phone Polling System in your smartphone, audiences can answer questions o nline or via text messaging. Polling results can be viewed and displayed almost immediately, as well as the other data collated. The event’s speaker and content evaluation can happen right away. This also gives you an opportunity to revisit key materials or messages and identify areas for further improvement. To add, with real-time consolidation of data and responses from the audience, key decisions can be made faster. Lastly, organizers can determine the pace and the depth of the presentation with the help of real-time audience response.
To top it all, audience response, whether it is through the traditional audience response systems available in the market or the Mobile Phone Polling System of Crowdcomms, yields a 95% response rate from the audience compared to the less than 50% rate when using the paper form for feedbacks. With this statistics, you can gauge the effectiveness of your events, conferences or meetings accurately.