Online Seminar
Creating flowing topic guides
Why do you need to know this?
If you have ever created - or had to moderate with an over-stuffed, over-prescriptive topic guide, you need to understand more about the role a topic guide plays both in the client-researcher relationship and in managing interviews.
Course content
- Assumptions about what people can tell you
- Different roles of topic guides: agreement, guide, safety net
- Exploring hypotheses
- Using domains to generate questions
- Structuring topic guides that fit with group processes
- Operationalising objectives
- Building in stimulus and projectives
- Energy management
- Internalisation and modeling
- Changing a topic guide
What will you know and be able to do at the end of this Seminar?
You will be clear about the differing roles of topic guides and will be able to create the type that is needed, when its needed.
You will be able to educate your clients about the best ways of getting the information they need.
Materials and exercises
- Pre-course exercise - Look over two different types of topic guides
- Course notes
- Post- seminar coaching - write a topic guide for a supplied brief
This seminar is delivered live using screen sharing and audio so is fully interactive.