An audience response system is a powerful tool that will take the interaction between a speaker and the audience to a whole new level. Keep the audience focused through seamlessly interwoven questions during the presentation, enjoy increased audience participation, and ensure greater retention of key messages. An audience response system can be used for any size of meeting or event, from a handful of people to thousands of delegates.

• Gather facts before you start and confirm audience understanding before you finish
• Collect information on the audience´s opinions, knowledge levels, and personal habits
• Vote and make decisions quickly during stakeholder or leadership meetings
• Run individual or team competitions and games
• Involve offsite attendees with web or remote polling to reduce travel costs
• Slice data based on gender, age, education or any other demographic variable
• Generate detailed Microsoft® Excel reports for post-analysis

• Ice-breakers: Start the day off with some fun questions to get to know the audience and to make them comfortable with the response system
• Long presentations: Avoid ”Death by PowerPoint” by inserting polls relevant to the topic spread throughout the presentation to keep the audience focused
• Case discussions: If you are presenting case studies, ask the audience to vote for their recommended actions or indicate how they would like to proceed
• Panel discussions: Start with some questions to give the panel audience input. This means they can focus on aspects of greatest interest to the audience

• Immediate feedback
• Improved attentiveness
• Anonymity ensures candid replies
• Efficient data gathering
• Data can be saved and analyzed over time

• Everyone gets to participate
• Increased involvement and interaction
• A fun and exciting experience
• Honesty and transparency
• Increased retention of key information