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Strategies for Successful Surveys: What Local Governments Need to Know
Audio Conference Recording Price: 199.00 (U.S. Dollars) -
SUMMARY
If local governments are going to plan projects, allocate funds and serve their communities successfully they must first know what is truly important to their citizens. There is no better way to achieve these goals than conducting a survey. But what is the best way to write and conduct surveys and make sense of the results? Join us for this 60-minute audio conference where you and your colleagues will discover:
- How to bring decision-oriented information into the public policy-making process
- Keys to gathering information on residents' attitudes and opinions
- Successfully craft questions that will have a dramatic impact your results
- Realistic ways to develop, increase and sustain public involvement
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PROGRAM BENEFITS
Surveys provide an excellent way of checking the pulse of the community and getting specific and current information from a cross-section of residents in a timely manner that provides decision-makers better information and helps build consensus. Join us for this 60-minute audio conference for best practices for writing a survey and using the collected data.
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PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
- Writing Survey Questions: Create an Outstanding Questionnaire
- Develop clear, concise questions that get accurate information
- How to ask the tough questions and get straight answers
- How to order questions to maximize citizen understanding of issues
- Survey Strategies: Get the Information You Need
- What type of survey gives the best results: Mail, phone, web or on site?
- Tactics for capturing reliable data about residents' perspectives
- How to target key demographics: Measure behaviors and population characteristics
- Using Survey Results for Policy and Funding Decisions
- Keys to bring the information into the public policy-making process
- Strategies for building consensus on difficult issues
- Measuring performance standards: Benchmark results to other communities
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Live Q&A Session - Ask the expert your most urgent community survey questions!
- Writing Survey Questions: Create an Outstanding Questionnaire
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SPEAKER
For more than 25 years, Ron Vine has strategically involved citizens and clients into decision making processes that effected their lives. These efforts resulted in over $1.5 billion of funded projects for a wide range of public and non-profit projects, including community comprehensive plans, transportation plans, community and organizational strategic plans and visioning, utility studies, customer satisfaction surveys, parks and recreation master plans, non-profit and association strategic plans, and others.
- Mr. Vine is skilled in both the use of quantitative phone and mail survey research efforts and as a facilitator for focus groups and stakeholder interviews.
- Prior to starting work as a private consultant in 1989, Mr. Vine worked for 15 years in a series of high level governmental administrative positions, including serving as the Chief Administrative Officer for the City of Topeka, Kansas where he managed a work force of over 1,200 municipal employees as well as an operations and capital budget in excess of $200 million.
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PROGRAM MATERIALS
The speaker's PowerPoint presentation slides are included with your audio recording purchase. All materials are accessible through the Internet and can be downloaded as a PDF file.
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PRICING
$199.00 for audio conference recording (CD or DVD) and program materials.
This is an outstanding program and therefore we offer purchasers a Money Back Guarantee. We are so confident that you will find the conference valuable that we offer a 100% money back guarantee from now until 30 days after the audio recording is shipped, making this a risk-free investment. If you should have any concerns, comments, or refund requests with this conference, please contact our customer service representatives at 800-964-6033. Audio recordings will be received approximately three weeks after the live conference.
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