Category: Develop your capabilities

AI-powered guidance: your creative assistant in Diggle Get creative with Diggle Buddy, your smart assistant powered by ChatGPT. Designed to help you jumpstart your Diggle sessions, Diggle Buddy guides you through crafting engaging learning content, making it easier than ever to get started and stay inspired. Here’s how Diggle Buddy enhances your content creation: Step-by-step guidanceTo create an effective workshop, you need to know your participants. What are their backgrounds, characteristics, knowledge levels, and expectations? This information will help you tailor the content, activities, and delivery methods to meet their needs. Session type Whether it’s a live presentation or workshop, a remote survey or feedback session, or an interactive quiz, Diggle Buddy helps create the content accordingly. Topic definitionDiggle Buddy helps you create content for the topic you define. Audience profileTailor your Diggle to fit your audience’s knowledge level and preferences. Learning goalsWith Diggle Buddy, you can establish clear learning targets, adding direction and purpose to your content. Language optionsSpecify your preferred language Fine-tuningAdd your own style with customization options for tone of voice, question types, and more. Diggle’s AI assistant helps you quickly create a structured set of slides to kickstart your learning sessions, discussions, or workshops. This foundation allows you to easily adapt and expand the content for effective group collaboration and knowledge sharing.

Workshop design 101 – How to use Diggle for increased engagement and interaction This is an easy guide for how to set up and design a workshop session using Diggle. Whether you’re a seasoned professional or new to workshop facilitation, this guide provides valuable insights and practical strategies to enhance participant engagement and learning outcomes. This design works well for corporate training, educational workshops, and team-building events. Feel free to check out one of our ready-made templates for more inspiration. What are your goals? The first step is to clarity the purpose of the workshop. What specific knowledge, skills, or outcomes do you want participants to gain? Clearly defined objectives will guide the workshop design and method, facilitating effective learning outcomes. Statkraft Statkraft Telenor Telenor Elvia Elvia Customize the workshop to your participants. In order to create an effective workshop, you need to know your participants. What are their backgrounds, characteristics, knowledge levels, and expectations? This information will help you tailor the content, activities, and delivery methods to meet their needs. Create good structure. Developing a detailed agenda that outline the workshop flow, including specific topics, activities, and time stamps, will aid both you as a facilitator and your participants. A well-structured agenda helps you stay organized and ensures a smooth progression of content throughout the workshop. Presentations and activities should be well periodized to ensure that your participants do not loose focus or interest. Select an appropriate method. Consider the most suitable design for your workshop. You can use a combination of various formats such as lectures, interactive group activities, practical exercises, and discussions and reflections. Remember that your chosen method should be aligned with the established objectives and facilitate engagement and learning. Utilize engaging material. Preparing visually appealing and informative materials, preferably a mix of presentation slides, reflection tasks, and other interactive resources. Visual aids and supporting materials help convey information effectively and enhance participants’ understanding. Focus on interactive activities. Interactive activities that promote discussion and reflection will be your best friend as a facilitator. Sitting through 8 hours of lectures in silence with no reflection or experience exchange is simply not effective – always include interactive elements throughout the session to foster engagement and active learning. Incorporate group discussions, brainstorming sessions, practical tasks, role-playing, simulations, or exercises that encourage participants to apply their new knowledge. Diggle is a great tool for all these activities. Create a good learning environment. As the facilitator, it is your job to ensure a positive and inclusive learning environment. Encourage active participation, ask thought-provoking questions, provide clarifications, and foster discussion among groups. Even though it can be difficult, engaging participants and guiding them towards achieving the learning objectives should be your top priority. From our experience with working with various clients, Diggle is a very useful tool for creating increasing engagement and interaction among participants compared to more traditional methods. Provide sufficient variation to promote reflection. In order to keep participants engaged and focused on the learning objectives, a variety of methods and formats should be used. This gives participants opportunities to reflect, both individually in groups, and learn through active engagement. It is also a plus if the workshop is perceived as fun and meaningful, where variation is key. Gather feedback for continuous improvement. Incorporating evaluation mechnaisms to assess the workshop’s effectiveness and gathering feedback will help the next group of participants experience even better learning outcomes. You can use basic survey designs or other assessment methods to gauge satisfaction, understanding, and evaluate whether learning objectives have been achieved. Reviewing feedvack will also aid you as a facilitator to identify areas for improvement and enhance future workshop designs.

Survey Design 101 – How to optimise Diggle for surveys This is an easy and straigthforward guide for anyone looking to create effective and engaging surveys using Diggle. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced survey designer, these insights will enhance your approach to survey creation and help you achieve meaningful results. This design works well for conducting market research, gathering employee feedback, exploring academic topics, and so much more. Essentially, this guide will walk you through the key steps to design a survey that yields valuable insights. Feel free to check out one of our ready-made templates for inspiration! What do you want to know? The first step is to define what you are trying to achieve with your survey. If you do not have clear goals, it can be hard to get the insight you are looking for. Every question or task in your survey should contribute to achieving your goal or answer the question you set out to explore. If a question or task does not match your goal, skip it. Choose an appropriate method. What kind of survey are you opting for? Are you looking for feedback, or do you intend to explore something? Your chosen method will set the framework for what type of questions you should ask and what kind of question types you should use. Always keep participants in the loop. Remember to let your participants know the purpose of they survey. This can easily be done by including a survey introduction as the first slide in your Diggle. The introduction should include who is distributing the survey, the intention of the survey, how long it will take, whether the survey is anonymous, and other relevant information. A good survey should be tailored. Consider your target group. Who are the participants you are aiming for? This step is similar to step one; you should always know who you are reaching out to and what characterizes them. Keep important details like demographics and other attributes in mind when designing your survey. Variety is key. In order to keep participants interested and to make your survey a little extraordinary, opt for various question types and items. Whether you are looking to collect numbers and statistics, or text and feedback, Diggle offers several different question types that can benefit your purpose. Avoid leading questions. If you are looking for results that are representative and honest, opting for open and closed questions that fit the purpose of your survey will likely aid you. Closed questions make it easier to create graphs and charts, and simplifies comparison and analysis. Open questions are great if you are looking to learn more about opinions, experiences, thoughts, and beliefs. Remember that open questions often take longer to answer, which should be considered when designing the survey.  Consider the order of your questions. A good rule of thumb is to place “boring questions” at the very end of the survey (i.e., age, gender etc). Even though structure is key, these questions are pretty standard and do not really give off a good or bad impression so you might as well place them at the end. If any questions are designed to take longer to respond to or require more effort from the participants’ side, place these first. However, don’t start off with questions that are too difficult – let the respondents ease into it. Specificity is your friend. Make sure that there is limited room for interpretation in your formulations. Be specific and straight to the point, and keep language simple and humane. Making questions simple and understandable makes participants more likely to answer the whole survey and not loose interest quickly. Feel free to use one of our ready-made templates for inspiration! Run a pre-test. Pre-testing your survey is always a good idea as it gives a good indication of whether questions are understandable and specific, and that your chosen question types serve their purpose. It is also an excellent opportunity  for you to practice being a Diggle-facilitator. Your test subjects doesn’t have to be participants from your target group – it can be friends, family, or co-workers.