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Training Courses
Spotlighted Courses
RIVA FQR, "FQR - Fundamentals of Qualitative Research"
RIVA FQR is a one day intensive and interactive seminar that is intended to provide researchers that use qualitative techniques in marketing, research, or meetings with a strong foundation in the underpinnings of qualitative research.
July 9, 2012
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Re-Broadcast RIVA Webinar"Secrets to Writing an Effective Moderator's Guide" is being offered March 9, 2012 from 12-1:30 EST
Registration Fee: $75
To register email Training@RIVAinc.com or Register Online. Registration closes at 12pm EST on Thursday, March 8, 2012.
RIVA 199,"Project Management & Screener Development"
RIVA 199 has been developed to help qualitative researchers to refine the administrative skills that make a project successful.
April 16, 2012 Register Online
RIVA 201,"Fundamentals of Moderating"
RIVA 201 provides an experiential training environment for students to learn about focus groups and their context of qualitative marketing research.Upcoming dates are below, please click on RIVA 201 link for additional training dates.
February 27-29, 2012 - 2 SEATS AVAILABLE
March 12-14, 2012 - WAITLIST ONLY
March 26-28, 2012
April 17-19, 2012
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RIVA 202,"Skill Acceleration"
RIVA 202 course provides an experiential training environment for working and experienced moderators who have not taken RIVA 201.
February 13-15, 2012 - 2 SEATS AVAILABLE Register Online
RIVA 203,"Relearn, Recharge, Refresh Moderating Skills"
RIVA 203 has been specially developed for our RIVA alums who are looking to revisit the 201 or 202 skills that have been learned. This course includes classroom instruction on improving guide questions and standard probes, as well as targets issues that have become challenges for working moderators. Recently included in the RIVA coaching program - this course allows for customized training in order to fit RIVA alum needs.
Contact Training@RIVAinc.com - Custom Pricing Applies
RIVA 204,"All About Ethnography"
This course focuses on the skills needed in order to get unfiltered responses in "real time" with interviews in a home, business, or social setting.
March 19-21, 2012 - 2 SEATS AVAILABLE
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RIVA 241,"Qualitative Analysis & Reporting"
Taught by one of the founders - Naomi Henderson
May 14-15, 2012 Register Online
RIVA 242,"Qualitative Toolbox"
A 2-day experiential course for new moderators offers a training environment for students who seek to build more complex and non-traditional moderating styles through special tools and techniques. This course is typically offered once a year, but due to high demand we are offering it again.
May 21-22, 2012 Register Online
RIVA 303,"Advanced Moderating"
The course provides advanced moderators with a review of current skills with feedback and coaching to reach higher levels of research.
March 5-7, 2012 - 1 SEAT AVAILABLE Register Online
RIVA 501"Facilitation - Practical Tools, Tips, & Techniques" is a practical three-day course, rather than a course based on theory or academics. RIVA's promise to graduates of this course is that you will be equipped with practical and actionable steps in order to facilitate a meeting moving the needle from problem to solution as the leader of that session.
May 7-9, 2012 Register Online
RIVA FQR is a one day intensive and interactive seminar that is intended to provide researchers that use qualitative techniques in marketing, research, or meetings with a strong foundation in the underpinnings of qualitative research.
July 9, 2012
Register Online
Re-Broadcast RIVA Webinar"Secrets to Writing an Effective Moderator's Guide" is being offered March 9, 2012 from 12-1:30 EST
Registration Fee: $75
To register email Training@RIVAinc.com or Register Online. Registration closes at 12pm EST on Thursday, March 8, 2012.
RIVA 199,"Project Management & Screener Development"
RIVA 199 has been developed to help qualitative researchers to refine the administrative skills that make a project successful.
April 16, 2012 Register Online
RIVA 201,"Fundamentals of Moderating"
RIVA 201 provides an experiential training environment for students to learn about focus groups and their context of qualitative marketing research.Upcoming dates are below, please click on RIVA 201 link for additional training dates.
February 27-29, 2012 - 2 SEATS AVAILABLE
March 12-14, 2012 - WAITLIST ONLY
March 26-28, 2012
April 17-19, 2012
Register Online
RIVA 202,"Skill Acceleration"
RIVA 202 course provides an experiential training environment for working and experienced moderators who have not taken RIVA 201.
February 13-15, 2012 - 2 SEATS AVAILABLE Register Online
RIVA 203,"Relearn, Recharge, Refresh Moderating Skills"
RIVA 203 has been specially developed for our RIVA alums who are looking to revisit the 201 or 202 skills that have been learned. This course includes classroom instruction on improving guide questions and standard probes, as well as targets issues that have become challenges for working moderators. Recently included in the RIVA coaching program - this course allows for customized training in order to fit RIVA alum needs.
Contact Training@RIVAinc.com - Custom Pricing Applies
RIVA 204,"All About Ethnography"
This course focuses on the skills needed in order to get unfiltered responses in "real time" with interviews in a home, business, or social setting.
March 19-21, 2012 - 2 SEATS AVAILABLE
Contact Register Online
RIVA 241,"Qualitative Analysis & Reporting"
Taught by one of the founders - Naomi Henderson
May 14-15, 2012 Register Online
RIVA 242,"Qualitative Toolbox"
A 2-day experiential course for new moderators offers a training environment for students who seek to build more complex and non-traditional moderating styles through special tools and techniques. This course is typically offered once a year, but due to high demand we are offering it again.
May 21-22, 2012 Register Online
RIVA 303,"Advanced Moderating"
The course provides advanced moderators with a review of current skills with feedback and coaching to reach higher levels of research.
March 5-7, 2012 - 1 SEAT AVAILABLE Register Online
RIVA 501"Facilitation - Practical Tools, Tips, & Techniques" is a practical three-day course, rather than a course based on theory or academics. RIVA's promise to graduates of this course is that you will be equipped with practical and actionable steps in order to facilitate a meeting moving the needle from problem to solution as the leader of that session.
May 7-9, 2012 Register Online