Interest : You want to immediately see how your audience’s knowledge or opinion has evolved following your presentation: “mirror sorting” is the answer.

Note : Your performance will be judged in real-time by your audience.

Sequence :

How to program a mirror sorting :

• Create your question.
• Copy and paste your question screen onto the end of the presentation.
• Make sure that this 2nd question screen is correctly programmed (correct answers, etc.).
• Generate the results screen based on this 2nd question.
• On the results screen thus created, go to Settings and select “”Mirror Sorting”" in “”Chart Type”".
• Generate a new results screen.

For more details (including screen copies), visit our online help.

• Frequency of use (once a year, once every quarter, once a week, etc.).
• The number of participants at each meeting (15, 50, 200, 500, etc.).
• The total number of participants at all meetings during one year (100; 1,000; 10,000, etc.).

What resources and how much time do you have available to prepare and carry out your PowerVote meeting?

The following table can help you make your choice:

Each year, 5,000 people are trained thanks to this system of interactive meetings based on electronic voting.

Each year, the Training Department of Biotherm develops training programmes for the sales teams of its distribution network. In total, 1,113 chemists and 1,302 perfume shops are concerned. Themes covered include the identity and positioning of the brand, the performance and technical nature of the ranges of treatment, the group’s sales techniques and sequences, and new products. Throughout each training session, the participants, divided into teams, use their electronic PowerVote voting keypads to answer a series of questions, so as to confirm their understanding of the messages being communicated.

A fun solution for more effective training

Since 2003, Biotherm has displayed a strong desire to develop original training programmes by offering the teams of its distribution network an innovative, interactive format that matches the brand’s dynamic, modern image. « The parallel between the technical nature of Biotherm’s products, whose performance can be measured, and the technological evolution of our training programmes is greatly appreciated by our participants, » declares the Training Director at Biotherm.

Breaking with the especially common tradition of paper-based questionnaires, Biotherm chose to acquire the PowerVote solution, which allows it to create interactive, fun presentations, to collect the participants’ votes in real-time, and to immediately display the results in the form of a “Leaderboard” with the help of a video projector.

For the Training Director, «PowerVote met two essential and concomitant goals: increase participant involvement thanks to interactive presentations and allow for a real-time confirmation of the participants’ understanding, through the use of electronic voting keypads.»

A friendly solution adapted to the need for flexibility

Easy to deploy, the PowerVote solution allows Biotherm to offer its training sessions in a variety of formats, no matter the number of participants.

“In 2003 and 2004, our training courses were offered in the evening, for groups of between 50 and 300 people. In 2005, we opted for a “roadshow” format, with training sessions organised in nearly 40 cities. These one-day courses are designed for groups of 20 participants. “It was therefore important that our instructors benefit from a solution capable of adapting to any configuration and in no way hindered by the number of participants,” explains the Training Director.

The use of electronic voting keypads is also greatly appreciated by the instructors who, thanks to the real-time display of the answers, can immediately react to the subjects touched upon. “The training sessions become much more dynamic and fun. There’s a real exchange, that had previously been checked by the paper-based questionnaires,” concludes Training Director.

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Save time and replace paper, pencil and eraser with individual MS Excel result spreadsheets. Using a quiz consisting of your scored questions and in MS PowerPoint format, launch the evaluation by having each participant vote using their voting keypads.

At the end of the session, PowerVote Quizz automatically transfers the results to an MS Excel folder that in turn distributes the results to detailed, individual spreadsheets (surname, forename, department, e-mail, etc., quiz score, individual question score, individual subject score, signature space, etc.).

The spreadsheets can be immediately printed and handed out to the participants.

The Excel file can then be saved for traceability.

The PowerVote Quizz functions to use:

• Importation of detailed participant lists from MS Excel.
• Creation and management of subjects.
• Use and settings of the transferable MS Excel “”individual results spreadsheets”".

For more details, see the PowerVote Quizz educational software.

Create a scored quiz: add “ranking” results slides.
“Pub quiz” displays the participants (voting keypad numbers or participant names) along with their scores.
You choose the number of participants desired and PowerVote Quizz ranks them from first (top) to last (bottom).
You can create as many rankings as you like, with the audience holding its breath for each new display. A great atmosphere, guaranteed!

To add a little excitement, you can limit the voting time and display an animated time keeper (a stop watch, an hour glass, a countdown, etc.) that produces some sort of sound (tick-tock, music, etc.). Each participant is thus aware of the passing time and hurries to answer the question(s), especially if you use response time as a tiebreaker!

PowerVote Quizz functions used:

• Creation of a Ranking Results slide.
• Allowed voting time.
• Addition of a voting animation.
• Choice and use of a voting animation (40 video examples provided).

For more details, see the PowerVote Quizz educational software.

You would like to study the distribution of answers according to:

• The various departments of a single company.
• Age groups.
• Multiple countries or sectors.
• Participant gender.
• The answers to another question.
• etc.

Start by creating a Question slide to specify the distribution into subgroups:
Question – You work in:

• Answer 1 – The marketing department.
• Answer 2 – The sales office.
• Answer 3 – Accounting.

or
Question – You are:

• Answer 1 – Between 10 and 20 years old.
• Answer 2 – Between 21 and 30 years old.
• Answer 3 – Between 31 and 40 years old.
• Answer 4 – Over 40 years old.
• etc.

Create a following Question slide:
- Which do you prefer?

• Cakes.
• Fruits.
• Vegetables.
• Meat.

Next, create a Results slide by choosing “Cross Sorting” as the results type.
PowerVote Quizz will ask you to specify the cross-sorting question (for subgroup distribution) and the interlocking question (on which the calculation by distribution will be based).
The “cross-sorting” results will display the answers to “Which do you prefer?” with several histograms:
Answer: “Cakes”

• 20% marketing department
• 10% sales office
• 15% accounting

“Fruits”

• 50% marketing department
• 25% sales office
• 25% accounting

etc…
-> Note : 20% of participants belonging to the marketing department prefer cakes.

For more details, see the PowerVote Quizz educational software.