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SUMMARY:Live Event: Advanced IDI Interviewing Skills - Probing Techniques for Challenging Interviews
DESCRIPTION:This session focuses on IDI probing techniques that help qualitative researchers elicit richer responses — even when participants are vague\, guarded\, or overly brief. \nSign-up for this event is required. Sign Up Here. \nFormat: How-to \nLevel: All – Suitable for all levels. \nTopic:  Advanced IDI interviewing skills help researchers probe effectively when participants are vague\, guarded\, overly brief\, or difficult to redirect. This session will cover how to apply probing techniques that deepen responses while maintaining rapport and protecting the integrity of the interview. \nLearning Objective:  Upon participation\, researchers will be ready to confidently use advanced probing techniques in IDIs to elicit richer responses\, manage challenging interview dynamics\, and preserve a productive participant experience.
URL:https://www.researchrockstar.com/elearningsched/idi-probing-techniques-challenging-interviews/
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SUMMARY:Live Event: Stop Doing Boring IDIs - Creative Approaches that Engage Participants
DESCRIPTION:Creative IDI techniques — from word association to digital collage — help researchers move beyond straight Q&A to engage participants and surface richer insights. \nSign-up for this event is required. Sign Up Here. \nFormat: How-To. \nLevel: All – Suitable for all levels. \nTopic: Are your IDIs boring? Have you tried word association\, heat mapping\, story stems\, image matching\, or digital collage making? Engaged IDI participants are essential to research success. And today’s research platforms make it easier than ever. \nLearning Objective: Attendees will see realistic examples of ways to amp up their IDIs. If your interviews rely on straight Q&A alone\, you may be missing the chance to reach deeper—into customer needs\, perceptions\, and even aspirations and values.
URL:https://www.researchrockstar.com/elearningsched/creative-idi-techniques-engage-participants/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260908T130000
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SUMMARY:Live Event: Delivering Research Projects to C-Level Leaders - Chief Marketing\, Customer Experience\, and Revenue Officers
DESCRIPTION:C-level research delivery requires connecting evidence to the strategic decisions CMOs\, CXOs\, and CROs are accountable for — clearly\, concisely\, and with business impact. \nSign-up for this event is required. Sign Up Here. \nFormat: Hot Topics \nLevel: Level 2 – For those with basic market research knowledge\, typically 2-5 years in the field. \nTopic: Delivering research projects to C-level leaders requires researchers to connect evidence to the strategic decisions executives are responsible for making. This session will cover how to frame findings for Chief Marketing\, Customer\, and Revenue Officers so insights are credible\, concise\, and tied to business priorities. \nLearning Objective: Upon completion\, attendees will be prepared to tailor research deliverables for C-level leaders by emphasizing decision relevance\, business impact\, and clear recommendations grounded in evidence.
URL:https://www.researchrockstar.com/elearningsched/c-level-research-delivery-cmo-cxo-cro/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260924T150000
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SUMMARY:Live Event: Conducting Awesome Webcam Interviews - IDI Practice with AI Avatars
DESCRIPTION:This hands-on session puts your webcam IDI moderating skills to the test — conducting practice interviews with AI consumers and receiving immediate\, actionable feedback. \nSign-up for this event is required. Sign Up Here. \nFormat: Cohort. \nLevel: All – Suitable for all levels \nTopic: How good an IDI moderator are you? In this session\, attendees will conduct brief practice IDIs with AI consumers and receive immediate feedback on their interview moderating skills\, including engaging participants\, building trust\, probing\, and clarifying as needed. \nLearning Objective: Upon participation\, researchers will be ready to confidently apply feedback on their IDI moderating skills to improve how they engage participants\, build trust\, probe\, and clarify during interviews.
URL:https://www.researchrockstar.com/elearningsched/webcam-idi-moderating-skills-ai-practice/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261013T130000
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SUMMARY:Live Event: When to Use LLMs vs Specialty AI Tools for Research Tasks
DESCRIPTION:When should you use LLMs vs AI tools for research? This session compares general-purpose LLMs and specialty AI tools across qualitative coding\, survey analysis\, synthesis\, and more. \nSign-up for this event is required. Sign Up Here. \nFormat: Tool Demo. \nLevel: All – Suitable for all levels \nTopic: When should researchers use LLMs versus specialty AI tools for qualitative and quantitative research tasks? This session will compare where general-purpose LLMs and research-specific AI tools fit across tasks such as qualitative coding\, theme development\, survey analysis\, data cleaning\, synthesis\, and reporting. \nLearning Objective: After this Live Event\, researchers will be ready to make informed decisions about when to use LLMs\, when to use specialty AI tools\, and how to evaluate fit based on the research task\, data type\, quality requirements\, and level of human oversight needed.
URL:https://www.researchrockstar.com/elearningsched/llms-vs-ai-tools-for-research/
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SUMMARY:Live Event: Making Methodology Recommendations for B2B Research Needs
DESCRIPTION:Making sound B2B research methodology recommendations means aligning study design with the business decision at stake — balancing feasibility\, population access\, and method tradeoffs. \nSign-up for this event is required. Sign Up Here. \nFormat: Case Study. \nLevel: Level 3 – Advanced \nTopic: Making methodology recommendations for B2B research requires researchers to align the study design with the business decision it needs to support. This session will cover how to evaluate B2B population access\, feasibility constraints\, and method tradeoffs so researchers can recommend approaches that are practical\, credible\, and fit for purpose. \nLearning Objective: Those attending will leave ready to make evidence-based methodology recommendations for B2B research needs by aligning research objectives\, target population access\, budget and timeline constraints\, and expected business decisions with appropriate qualitative\, quantitative\, or mixed-method approaches.
URL:https://www.researchrockstar.com/elearningsched/b2b-research-methodology-recommendations/
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SUMMARY:Live Event: The Art & Science of Hypothesis Generation - Using Behavioral Science Models to Spark Better Consumer Insights
DESCRIPTION:Behavioral science models like COM-B and the Fogg Behavior Model give researchers a structured way to think about consumer motivation\, decision context\, and hypothesis generation. \nSign-up for this event is required. Sign Up Here. \nFormat: How To. \nLevel: Level 2 – For those with basic market research knowledge\, typically 2-5 years in the field. \nTopic: Hypothesis generation improves when researchers use behavioral science models to structure how they think about consumer motivations and decision contexts. This session will show how frameworks such as COM-B and the Fogg Behavior Model can help researchers develop sharper hypotheses and uncover more actionable consumer insights. \nLearning Objective: Participants will leave equipped to use behavioral science models to contribute stronger hypotheses and identify behavioral factors that may shape consumer attitudes\, choices\, and actions.
URL:https://www.researchrockstar.com/elearningsched/behavioral-science-models-consumer-insights/
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SUMMARY:Live Event: Hot Topics in CX Research\, UX Research\, and Market Research - Trade Show Season Insights
DESCRIPTION:Customer research trends often emerge first at trade shows — this session debriefs recent conferences to surface the hot topics shaping CX\, UX\, and market research today. \nSign-up for this event is required. Sign Up Here. \nFormat: Hot Topics. \nLevel: All – Suitable for all levels \nTopic: Hot topics in customer research often emerge first through the conversations and presentations taking place at trade shows and industry conferences. In this session\, Research Rockstar instructors will debrief on recent customer insights and consumer behavior trade shows\, highlighting hot topics and keeping us all current. \nLearning Objective: After this Live Event\, researchers will be ready to evaluate recent industry trends and assess their implications for research planning\, methodology choices\, and insights delivery.
URL:https://www.researchrockstar.com/elearningsched/customer-research-trends-trade-show-insights/
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SUMMARY:Live Event: Planning MaxDiff Surveys
DESCRIPTION:MaxDiff survey planning requires careful attention to item development\, survey structure\, and platform selection — this session covers the key design decisions that drive reliable\, prioritized insights. \nSign-up for this event is required. Sign Up Here. \nFormat: Application \nLevel: Level 3 – Advanced \nTopic: Planning MaxDiff surveys requires researchers to structure tradeoff exercises that produce clear\, prioritized insights without overburdening participants. This session will cover key design decisions for MaxDiff studies\, including item development\, survey structure\, analysis considerations\, and how to assess platform options based on research needs. \nLearning Objective: After this Live Event\, participants will be able to contribute to team decisions about MaxDiff survey planning\, work more effectively with data analysts\, and identify key setup\, analysis\, and platform considerations that affect fieldwork quality and reporting.
URL:https://www.researchrockstar.com/elearningsched/maxdiff-survey-planning/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261217T150000
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SUMMARY:Live Event: Making Sense of Survey Open-Ends - AI-Supported Techniques for Unstructured Data
DESCRIPTION:Survey open-end analysis is often under-leveraged — this session demonstrates how AI tools\, from general-purpose LLMs to specialty platforms\, can unlock richer insights from unstructured response data. \nSign-up for this event is required. Sign Up Here. \nFormat: How-to \nLevel: Level 3 – Advanced \nTopic: Open-ended responses are often the most under-leveraged data in a survey—rich material that’s tedious to analyze by hand. AI changes that\, not just by speeding up thematic analysis but by deepening the value we can pull from these responses. In this session\, the instructor will demonstrate open-end analysis live using two different types of AI tools—a general-purpose LLM and a specialty platform—giving attendees a concrete basis for weighing which approach would best suit their own work \nLearning Objective: By the end of this session\, attendees will be able to compare LLM-based and specialty-platform approaches to open-end analysis to determine which would best fit their own survey work
URL:https://www.researchrockstar.com/elearningsched/survey-open-end-analysis-ai-tools/
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