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Volkswagen

The Volkswagen Group is won over by PowerVote and doubles the number of interactive voting keypads for training
Since 2008, the Training and Human Resources Department of the Volkswagen Group has used the interactive PowerVote voting system to train the distribution and repair networks of its 5 brands (Volkswagen, Skoda, Audi, SEAT and Volkswagen Utility Vehicles), particularly for the launching of new products, such as the latest Skoda or the new Passat.
This solution allows the department to create interactive, fun presentations, to gather the participants’ answers, and to graphically display the results in real-time with the help of a video projector. Following the success of this method, the Group decided to extend this system to all training courses, thereby doubling the number of its voting keypads for a total of 48 cases of 15 voting keypads each.
Extending training via PowerVote
Improved knowledge acquisition thanks to the playfulness of the training, the possibility of measuring in real-time the training’s effectiveness and to react immediately, better performing teams, and, finally, ROI (return on investment) achieved in under a year: such were the benefits that convinced Volkswagen to extend its use of PowerVote to all training courses and all sectors of activity:
• Marketing.
• Parts and service.
• Technology/body work.
The Group’s interactive PowerVote training programme will be extended from 8,000 to nearly 12,000 workers, for a total of between 960 and 1,000 training courses taught each year by 40 instructors.
According to the Director of the Training Department for Marketing and Technology/Service at Volkswagen, “for us, the major advantage of the PowerVote solution is its flexibility and ability to evolve. And, above all, the system allows us, thanks to the possibility of modulating the frequencies, to simultaneously evaluate the participants’ knowledge acquisition in all 14 rooms of our training centre. Isn’t that incredible?”
An even more intensive use of the system
For next year, the Group plans on optimising the use of PowerVote by confirming each step of the training programme. This would allow instructors to verify knowledge acquisition and continually adapt their courses to their classes.
Internet-based quizzes are also planned.
About Volkswagen France
Created in 1960, the distribution company Volkswagen defends the interests of Volkswagen AG throughout the country and markets the products of the Group’s five makes: Volkswagen, Skoda (since 1991), Audi (since 1965), SEAT (since 1986) and Volkswagen Utility Vehicles, as well as these makes exchange parts, components and accessories. 5,200 vehicles sold in 1960, year of the Group’s creation, and over 230,000 sold in 2003 (137,800 for Volkswagen, 14,000 for Skoda, 41,300 for Audi and 37,400 for SEAT). The one thousand points of sale and service that constitute the Group’s network employ over 16,000 people.
For more information: http://www.volkswagen.com

SM publishing house

The SM publishing house used the electronic PowerVote voting keypads during a meeting with its employees

The Human Resources department of the SM publishing house held a meeting with all of its Spanish employees in November 2007.
So as not to limit itself during this meeting to a simple presentation, the event was organized in the form of a competition, with questions being asked on the company. All participants were invited to take part in the quiz, thanks to the electronic PowerVote voting keypads.

According to Adolfo Crooke Llop, Director of Human Resources for the SM Group, during this type of event, the audience’s involvement is proportional to the system’s ease-of-use: “The tool used arouses in large part the participants’ curiosity, and this voting keypad encourages participation while at the same time facilitating communication.”
Organizing a meeting for several hundred people, gathering information, and ensuring that the answers instigate immediate exchanges can together seem an impossible task without the use of interactive voting keypads. This was a priority for the HR department of the SM publishing house in preparing for this meeting to which all of its Spanish employees had been invited. It amounted to a huge challenge for the organizers, for this was the first time that the company was gathering together “all SM Group personnel in our country,” explains Adolfo Crooke Llop, Director of Human Resources.

An interactive competition

Taking advantage of the work carried out on the group’s corporate values, the general management, as well as the HR department proposed gathering together all staff during a one-day macro-event. “The proposed goal consisted of reflecting upon our company and sharing a day with all of the group’s professionals,” explains Mr Crooke.
The Aranjuez Casino in Madrid was chosen as the venue for this event, and several presentations were held. Management members presented to the participants the goal and the developed actions, while members of the HR department explained the company’s policy on reconciling one’s professional and family lives. “Since we didn’t want to only carry out the classic presentation of an agency specialized in this type of event, without any type of interactivity, we proposed a competition in the form of questions on the company,” explains the Director of Human Resources for the SM Group.

This competition was held at the Aranjuez Casino, with the Assistant General Manager of SM acting as the presenter. Three volunteers were recruited among the participants to also act as presenters. However, a voting keypad was given to each employee to allow the entire audience to participate by answering the questions. “In this manner, the participants and the audience were able to vote. In addition, a prize was awarded the audience member who answered the most questions correctly,” explains Mr Crooke.
According to the Director of Human Resources at SM, this activity was made possible thanks to interactive voting, “which facilitates the participation of all audience members, while rendering dynamic an activity that otherwise could only have been carried out on stage”.
According to Mr Crooke, the audience’s involvement is proportional to the system’s ease-of-use. He underlines that, “The acceptance of this system depends in large part on the tool used, which arouses the audience’s curiosity, for it encourages participation while at the same time facilitating communication.”

A positive experience

The SM meeting constituted a double challenge for the HR department. Firstly, this was the first time that the publishing house was gathering together all of its employees in Spain and secondly, it was also the first time that the interactive PowerVote voting keypads were being used. “We hesitated to use a new tool without first knowing how it worked. It’s true that we were pleased with the system glimpsed at ExpoManagement. We had noted its simplicity and its ease-of-use. That’s why we decided to use the electronic voting keypads. What’s more, we requested the assistance of the PowerVote technicians to resolve any incident or answer our questions,” explains Mr Crooke.
Despite the system’s simplicity, the Director of Human Resources at SM admits that “taking charge of its set up, programming and coordination would have been difficult or impractical”.

The SM Group
The SM Group is an independent Spanish publishing company with a strong presence in Latin America (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Columbia, Spain, Mexico, Porto Rico and the Dominican Republic) and which is the leading publisher of educational books and literature for children and adolescents.
The publishing group’s SM Foundation channels the resources from Ediciones SM toward the funding of independent projects and the implementation of various programmes. The initiatives launched by the Foundation focus on four main sectors: educational programmes, educational social-betterment programmes, publications on social research and educational publications, as well as various literary prizes.
The publishing house celebrated its first meeting with all of its employees and it was also the first time that it made use of the wireless technology of the PowerVote voting machines. “This was our first such experience,” recalls out Mr Crooke.

CB Richard Ellis

Stimulate participation with the help of interactive voting

Interactive voting systems are very versatile. Some companies use them to enliven their events, like a sort of game played with the audience rather than a means to obtain feedback. Other companies use the interactive voting keypads to stimulate debates and discussions that would be difficult to enter into without this tool.
This is the case for the property consulting firm of CB Richard Ellis, Spain that has used the PowerVote system since 2007 for its clients gathered together during events organized by its marketing department. “These are thematic seminars dealing with the property sector and during which we carry out an opinion survey among our clients with regard to certain important aspects of the sector,” explains Gorka Anitua Valluerca, Director of Marketing for the consulting firm.

How it works

The voting system set up by CB Richard Ellis for these events is very simple. During these meetings, a round table is set up, consisting of around five persons who propose concrete situations taken from this sector of the market. Questions are subsequently asked on the given subject, which the audience answers using the interactive voting keypads. Finally, the members of the round table evaluate the results highlighted by these answers.

Gorka Anitua recognizes that this system is doubly effective: “Firstly, it allows us to know the audience’s opinion; secondly, we can encourage participation in the debate aroused around each answer.” Compared to the traditional method of raising one’s hand, the Director of Marketing at Richard Ellis, Spain points out that the interactive voting keypads not only help the participants relax when it comes time to express their opinions, but “it is also easier for them to defend their opinions” after having voted.
In general, during events organized by this property consulting firm, the interactive voting systems are rather well received by the participants, “although there are always persons who prefer not to vote, perhaps because they would rather not express their opinion on the various subjects raised,” explains Anitua.

Preparatory work

Despite the user-friendliness of the technology designed by PowerVote, the Director of Marketing at CB Richard Ellis, Spain believes that it is essential, before each event, to carry out a pre-analysis of the questions to be asked the audience, in order to choose those most suited to each situation. “Clearly, interactive voting stimulates participation, but one must pay particularly close attention to one’s choice of subjects and the wording of one’s questions,” he recommends.

Following a dozen experiences with the interactive PowerVote voting keypads, Gorka Anitua underlines their ease-of-use and the facility for their users to memorize the results, thanks to the graphics used by the system, which can reproduce the voting results in Microsoft Excel.
So far, all events organized by CB Richard Ellis, Spain have relied upon the collaboration and assistance of the PowerVote team, and no hitch has occurred. “We have yet to try the system without technical assistance, even though, a priori, PowerVote is rather simple, not any more complicated than PowerPoint or a spreadsheet,” insists Anitua.

Furthermore, he believes that the interactive PowerVote voting keypads could be much more effective “if one were familiar with all of this tool’s possibilities”.
CB Richard Ellis, Spain uses, on average, 100 voting keypads for each seminar. Anitua recalls that the company’s first experience with the system was at the HSM Innovation Forum: “We were pleased with this system and decided to adopt it for our own events.”

About CBRE
CB Richard Ellis, Spain is a property consulting firm that celebrated thirtyfive years of activity in Spain in 2008.
The history of this company in our country mirrors the important years of the property sector, of its successes and its difficult periods. Among the various consulting services provided by the Spanish subsidiary, the firm is particularly active in the management of property assets, business services, financial markets, shopping centres, and residential services and agencies. The firm also benefits from a large research team, which occasionally produces reports on the market and its trends. Richard Ellis numbers 400 offices in 58 countries around the world.

Groupama

PowerVote: a tool to help mobilize young people with regard to sensitive issues

For the past few years, the multinational company Groupama has used the electronic voting system to raise awareness among young French students of early driving instruction and road safety. An initiative that is spreading among secondary schools and to which Groupama has dedicated the PowerVote voting keypads the French company acquired four years ago.
Learning to drive before the legal driving age should not be a problem, as long as this instruction is carried out within a supervised, educational framework, as has been the case for years for thousands of French 14- to 18-year-olds.
In the country and in the city, French adolescents can practice driving in a safe, secure environment thanks to each of two prevention programmes: “10 for Young Driving” and “10 for Rural Driving”; these programmes allow young people to familiarize themselves with the automobile environment and are both promoted by Groupama, in cooperation with Renault Ltd., Total and the National Gendarmerie for the former and Class, Total and various Compagnies Républicaines de Sécurité (state security police forces) for the latter.

The goal of the “10 for Young Driving” programme is to raise awareness among young people of the major risks met with out on the road, to teach them the basic rules of driving, and to teach young students the proper attitude to adopt when they find themselves behind the wheel. The goal of the second programme, “10 for Rural Driving”, is to teach young people how to operate farming vehicles in complete safety.

A dynamic and adapted educational tool

The teaching method used for the two programmes was developed by Groupama and is updated on a regular basis. According to Marc Le Botlan, Director of Prevention at Groupama, the use of electronic voting keypads during these programmes “lends life to the courses’ theoretical instruction: the students answer a multiple-choice questionnaire while practicing driving at the agricultural and/or general educational establishments”.
The classrooms are equipped with a slide show and informative videos on the various subjects of discussion: the Highway Code, legal information and insurance, as well as the various risks posed by alcohol, drugs and speeding.

The PowerVote voting keypads are used to evaluate the level of knowledge of the students participating in these programmes. Placed before a video screen and with the help of their remote controls, the young people have between 20 and 25 seconds to answer the questions and thereby determine their level of understanding concerning the various subjects touched upon during the programmes.

As opposed to other group types that use these electronic devices for their training, young learners very naturally operate the PowerVote voting keypads to evaluate their degree of knowledge acquisition. Groupama’s Director of Prevention explains that “habituated as they are to using game consoles and other electronic devices, teenagers readily accept this voting system”. In his opinion, this electronic system, compared to other methods, proves “more didactic and less daunting” for the students.
The advantages of the PowerVote system
Likewise, Marc Le Botlan admits that one of the main advantages of the system developed by PowerVote resides in the fact that, following suitable instruction, this tool is very easy to use.
For nearly five years, Groupama has made use of interactive voting keypads to develop its young driver programmes in both urban and rural settings. The company first discovered the PowerVote tools via “an Internet search, with the help of our computing colleagues in charge of developing a management tool for the two prevention programmes,” recalls Marc Le Botlan. The company owns the voting keypads it uses.

About Groupama
Groupama was created by France’s mutual agricultural insurance system at the end of the 19th century. For over a century, the company’s main goal was proximity and member service as its principal line of activity. Groupama has a large distribution network covering all of France and insures not only vehicles, but also property and individuals; in addition, the company is active in the banking and finance sectors.
At the international level, the company has subsidiaries in the main markets of Western Europe (including Spain), Central Europe and Asia. In 2007, Groupama recorded a turnover of €14,900,000.
Marc Le Botlan, Director of Prevention at Groupama France

Genzyme

PowerVote: a rapid means of knowledge evaluation!

Interactive voting machines are increasingly being used in all types of companies. Companies rely most on electronic voting systems in publishing, property and, above all, the health-pharmaceutical sector.
Genzyme Spain first made use of the voting machines developed by PowerVote during a recent Conference of the Spanish Nephrology Society (SEN) held in San Sebastian in early October 2008.
This laboratory, by using the electronic voting keypads during the conference, had as its goal to “attract to the Genzyme stand the greatest number of people possible, while at the same time marketing its products via the questions themselves,” explains Jesús M. Vásquez, product manager for Renagel at Genzyme Spain.
The doctors who visited this stand could demonstrate their knowledge of nephrology by answering a series of questions developed by Genzyme’s specialists.

A favourable reception

The PowerVote voting system proved quite popular among visitors to the laboratory’s stand. As opposed to what happens with other technological devices toward which users prove immediately reticent, this time, just the opposite occurred. “I was greatly surprised that the clients demonstrated no reticence to using the voting keypads. They even came up to ask if they could use them,” admits with satisfaction Jesús M. Vásquez.

Although, for the time being, this laboratory’s experience with the PowerVote tool is limited to the SEN conference, the system’s evaluation by the Product Manager for Renagel at Genzyme Spain is very positive. In his opinion, the great advantage of electronic voting keypads resides in the fact that they are “useful icebreakers and help put their users at ease when one attempts to evaluate their knowledge”.
Likewise, Jesús M. Vásquez recognizes that interactive systems that allow their users to vote or express their opinions encourage the audience’s participation during a congress, conference or other group event. This is because one is able to express oneself anonymously: “When several people answer at the same time, one is less likely to stand out”.

The Product Manager for Renagel at Genzyme Spain admits that during a secret vote, it is much easier for the organizers to ask questions. He even recognizes that “without this system, it would be impossible.” What is more, and contrary to more traditional methods, “the interactive approach allows for effective and easier communication. This is carried out in the form of a game and the client doesn’t feel agressed. That is why the audience feels much more involved.”

Extend its use

Although, for the time being, Genzyme Spain has only used the electronic voting keypads during a congress with its clients, the company’s goal is to extend their use to other situation types. Indeed, the company has not ruled out the idea of using these devices during internal meetings, in order to “measure the benefits of sales meetings, as well as during round tables with doctors.”
For the sales meetings, Jesús M. Vásquez admits that the system represents “a practical and easy means of evaluating the representatives’ knowledge”, while for the round tables, the system would be useful for “observing a group of doctors before and after the meeting and influencing their behaviour.”
Concerning the facility of installing and using the electronic voting keypads developed by PowerVote, the Product Manager for Renagel at Genzyme Spain admits that they encountered no difficulty whatsoever implementing the system. “Following an hour-long instruction, I was perfectly capable of using the keypads,” he concludes.

About Genzyme
Genzyme Corporation was founded by Henri Termeer in Boston in 1981, with its goal being to create products thanks to enzymatic engineering and its strategy being to fill the niche of treating rare genetic diseases. Today, Genzyme remains the leader in the development of treatments for Gaucher’s disease, Pompe disease, Fabry disease and type 1 mucopolysaccharidoses, but the company has opened up new avenues of research targeting kidney diseases, cancers, diagnostic testing and genetic therapies. This has allowed the company to position itself as the sixth largest biotechnology firm, thanks to its listing on the Nasdaq market.
The company set up a Spanish office in the early 1990s and is currently represented via Genzyme SL in Madrid and Barcelona.
Jesús M. Vásquez, Product Manager for Renagel at Genzyme Espagne

SAMUR – Municipal Emergency Assistance and Rescue Service of Madrid

Even the SAMUR uses the interactive voting keypads!

Training procedures for the acquisition and updating of skills and knowledge are the subject of ever greater attention, not only in the private sector, but also for local governmental institutions.
This is particularly true in such important sectors as emergency medical assistance. For this reason, a year and a half ago, the SAMUR (Municipal Emergency Assistance and Rescue Service of Madrid) turned to interactive voting keypads for the training of its own technicians, as well as of outside groups.
This tool provides flexibility and fun, while favouring greater involvement on the part of personnel keen to learn new skills.
Since the SAMUR’s creation in 1992, in the same form with which we are today familiar, training has increased considerably in importance. The ever greater necessity for a service that can deal quickly and effectively with emergency health situations occurring on Greater Madrid’s public highways has turned the attention of the SAMUR’s directors to the continuing training of their institution’s personnel: “Training that targets the acquisition and updating of skills and knowledge with regard to emergency medical assistance,” explains Ramón de Elías, Director of Training at the SAMUR.

However, in addition to in-house training for doctors and health workers, the SAMUR also provides training to outside groups. This has led those responsible for training to express the necessity to locate multifunctional and more flexible tools for teaching doctors, medical professionals and volunteers new skills with regard to emergency medical assistance.
“We realized that in order to render the training procedures more flexible and improve learning acquisition, we needed to make use of new technologies, namely interactive devices such as electronic voting keypads that facilitate the transfer of data and make the training sessions more dynamic,” explains Ramón de Elías.
The voting machines are used in a traditional manner at the SAMUR: “We habitually carry out a preliminary evaluation at the beginning of the course, by asking a series of questions, and ask another series of questions at the end of the session.”

Greater participation

The use of electronic voting keypads since 2008 for training has allowed instructors to rapidly evaluate knowledge acquisition thanks to the system’s simplicity. Before beginning a session, questions and answers are programmed to later be displayed as part of a PowerPoint presentation. Once programmed, the voting keypads are passed out to the participants and each time a vote is made, the system’s software program displays the results.

That is why, according to Ramón de Elías, the voting keypads encourage greater student participation within the institution’s training courses. The fact that no one who expresses his or her opinion need do it in public or openly results in a much higher answer rate than when other survey methods are used. “With the voting keypads, almost 100% of students answer the questions they are asked,” he insists.

In addition to this anonymity made possible by technology, voting keypads boast yet another advantage, according to the SAMUR’s Director of Training: “They allow us to compile – on condition that the students are previously made aware of the procedure – all data concerning each individual participant, with his or her full name.” What is more, the use of voting keypads means instructors no longer need correct their exams nor – and this is an important point – use paper, adds Ramón de Elías.

Spreading their use

As the department offers its in-house and external training days on a continual basis, it decided to purchase 130 voting keypads in the second semester of 2007.
Ramón de Elías admits that the voting keypads have not yet been incorporated into all training courses, because “before giving their classes, the instructors must provide us with their series of questions, so that they can be entered into the system. This necessitates additional preparation time,” he explains.
That said, the Director of Training for the SAMUR of Madrid insists that the results have been excellent for those courses that have made use of the electronic PowerVote voting keypads.

Even if, for the time being, the electronic PowerVote voting keypads have only been used for training sessions, the SAMUR intends to extend their use to other situations. “We would like to use the system for all types of meetings, for it has proven itself to be the ideal means of gathering participants’ opinions rapidly and collectively.”

About the SAMUR
In 1989, faced with the necessity to create a pre-hospital emergency medical service for the city of Madrid, the municipality’s Department of Health and Consumption decided to create a team responsible for studying this project, from its design to its implementation. The service, with its present philosophy, was created as a pilot project in June 1991. Later, in December 1992 and after having proven its usefulness, it was decided to attribute to this service the “Health Transport Section” category, better known as the SAMUR (Servicio de Asistencia Municipal de Urgencia y Rescate or “Municipal Emergency Assistance and Rescue Service). The goal of this service is to quickly and effectively deal with emergency health situations liable to occur on the public road network within the Greater Madrid area.
Ramón de Elías, Director of Training at the SAMUR.

ENVL – National Veterinary School of Lyon

In 2004, ENVL, as part of its policy to modernize its teaching methods via the use of ICTE (Information and Communication Technologies for Education), turned to electronic voting to lend interactivity to its lecture courses.

As for any ICTE tool, the instructor has several teaching scenarios to choose from. In addition to the more traditional scenario of asking questions during the course, so as to enliven instruction and make it more dynamic, the most effective teaching scenario is the following:
- Ask a few questions at the beginning of the session, in order to confirm the previous week’s instruction.
- Once again, ask a few questions at the end of the session, in order to determine the group’s level of understanding regarding what has just been discussed.

Based on the results, the instructors can reorganize their course and adapt it to their students, thereby ensuring a maximum level of understanding. At ENVL, the voting keypads are used to determine the students’ level of understanding and produce a “comprehension assessment” that is greatly appreciated by the students themselves and which helps them determine where they stand with regard to their training.
Question preparation is time-consuming…
ENVL has obtained the support of the Rhône-Alpes Region for financing the purchase of 50 PowerVote voting keypads.
It has even convinced Lyon’s Ecole Centrale to co-invest in the project, potentially increasing the number of voting keypads to one hundred.
Thinking up and preparing the questions requires a significant amount of time on the part of the instructors; this would seem to limit the use of this solution. “Question preparation is too complicated. This task remains a hurdle for instructors, and so it is our ICTE centre that prepares the layout of the PowerVote questionnaires. Today, at ENVL, only 10% of teachers make use of these voting machines,” explains Sophie Touze, research engineer responsible for the school’s ICTE.
… But the method pays off
“We spend time preparing the questions, but the results speak for themselves. The instructors have noticed that the students are more involved when the voting machines are used during class,” explains Sophie Touze. Interactive and fun instruction seems to have won over these veterinary students.

A new software program is currently being studied to simplify question preparation. This would allow the National Veterinary School of Lyon to increase the number of instructors who make use of the electronic PowerVote keypads.
Experience related by Sophie Touze of the National Veterinary School of Lyon

Reims Medical Faculty

Experience of the Reims Medical Faculty

Educational experience in Continuing Medical Training at the Reims Medical Faculty: M.H. Bernard, A. Bazin, F. Canas, Prof. Péruzzi

The monthly presentation of multidisciplinary clinical cases has offered Reims, for the past few years already, a new, interactive method for continuing medical training, allowing it to gather together and improve communication between doctors from diverse backgrounds, which today’s hyper-specialization tends to isolate.

In this manner, general practitioners and specialists in and outside the hospital are brought together.

During 2 hours, 6 varied clinical cases are presented via video and thanks to information technology with the use of voting keypads each device recording the vote of 3 or 4 doctors gathered together some fifteen small, friendly tables.

The faculty plans on organizing video conferences and making these training sessions available online to gather together geographically remote practitioners.
www.univ-reims.fr/UFR/Medecine/

Price WaterHouse Coopers

PricewaterhouseCoopers has chosen PowerVote to enliven its “Welcome Convention”

For over 5 years, PricewaterhouseCoopers has used the interactive PowerVote voting system in the form of a large-scale, interactive game (similar to snakes and ladders) to enliven its convention for new arrivals to PwC.

Throughout the convention, the participants, divided into teams, use their electronic PowerVote voting keypads to answer a series of questions. The results are displayed in real-time, in the form of pawns moving along a circuit. The principle is simple: the faster and better performance of the teams, the faster their pawns move along the game board.

REM Sûreté

Rem Sûreté chose PowerVote for its training programmes dedicated to airport safety

Each year since 2006, 5,000 people have been trained thanks to this interactive meeting system based on electronic voting.

The Ministerial Order of 1 September 2003 made training programmes dedicated to airport safety mandatory for all air transport activities. Put in place to prevent acts of malice, these programmes answer several major goals, including: have a general understanding of the various players and their respective roles, be familiar with the safety-measure goals and prohibited items, and master the main regulatory measures applicable.

An innovative educational tool for real-time evaluation

REM Sûreté, a renowned player in the consulting and training sector, relies on the PowerVote solution to provide its services to the personnel of airlines, airports, freight companies and service firms. Following each session, the participants use the voting keypads to individually answer a series of questions, thereby allowing for a confirmation of their knowledge acquisition. For certified training courses, a minimum score of 12 out of 20 is required for validation.

“Today, all players of the air transport sector are required to implement training programmes for their entire personnel. Faced with this legal obligation, the teaching aids chosen are a decisive factor in meeting the goals set by the ministerial order. By facilitating the understanding of the measures and rigorously confirming the results, PowerVote meets our clients’ needs and expectations,” declares Rémi Arbonville, Director of REM Sûreté.

Breaking with the traditional paper-based questionnaires, the processing of which is often time-consuming, REM Sûreté 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 and graphically display the results with the help of a video projector.
“The PowerVote system is perfectly suited to the needs of our profession. Easy to use, it not only allows our instructors to visualize the answers in real-time and to save them onto their computer, it also enables them to immediately evaluate the knowledge level of the audience, thereby making them more reactive. These are differentiating factors to which our clients are very sensitive,” adds Rémi Arbonville.

Stimulating emulation to optimize knowledge acquisition

The interactivity of the PowerVote system, combined with the playfulness of the voting keypads, has also proved to be a real motivational lever for the trainees. “It is essential for us to be able to capitalize on a solution that is both interactive and intuitive and that allows us to involve the participants by making them more active,” continues Rémi Arbonville.
Another advantage greatly appreciated by REM Sûreté: the possibility for the instructor to punctuate the training sessions, whenever he or she so desires, with best-score rankings. “With the results being displayed in real-time, we are able, thanks to the voting keypads, to take into consideration the response time of each trainee. As a result, the training sessions become more dynamic, a real emulation arises between participants, and message memorization is greatly improved,” concludes Rémi Arbonville.

About REM Sûreté
REM Sûreté has been set up in Freight Zone 4 of Roissy Charles de Gaulle Airport since 1997. The company benefits from the experience acquired since 1989 by Rémi Arbonville, its founder and a specialist in airport-safety training. REM Sûreté offers introductory training, retraining, awareness and evaluation programmes to airlines, freight companies and handling companies. Courses are offered both in France and abroad.
For more information: rem.surete@wanadoo.fr

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How it works?

Ready to use in only 1 minute, the PowerVote system consists of three parts:

Several wireless, individual voting keypads.
A vote receiver (USB flash drive), to plug into your computer.
The PowerVote Quizz software program, completely integrated into PowerPoint.