ResearchTalk Inc.'s unique approach and philosophy facilitate your ability to integrate effective qualitative analysis methods into your research design, both now and in the future. If you're already using qualitative analysis methods, ResearchTalk Inc. can hone and enhance your skills and those of your research team, increasing your efficiency by allowing you to focus more on the substance of your work and less on administrative and mechanical tasks.

Our "Learn as You Would Use" Philosophy is designed to achieve practical goals. We believe that as active scholars with rich knowledge and experience we can work together to comfortably integrate new research perspectives and techniques into your current methods of knowledge discovery. We want to leave you and your colleagues as independent decisions makers, confident and motivated to move ahead with your research.

In this spirit, we give careful thought to 4 key principles that define our interaction with you:

1.	Active Analysis Sessions Our sessions are designed to emulate your data collection and analysis experiences. · When learning data collection techniques, direct experience is a must.   · When learning qualitative software we avoid "Click and Follow" teaching. Our work sessions introduce you to the philosophy behind software use and engage you in "active analysis" of your own data with our consultants addressing questions as they arise.   Our interactions focus on your research topics, data and issues pertinent to your research team.   · We carefully review summaries of your research work at the beginning of our relationship.     · Our in-person visits are preceded by pre-session consultation phone calls.
2.	Skills Integration Focus We no longer use the term "training." Our job is really "Skills Integration." Our clients are competent professionals who want to supplement their current skill set. We work with you to combine your current strengths with the tools and techniques we introduce to you. We work to make sure that you maintain important methodological principles you held before we met while embracing enhancements, and confronting and considering challenges.
3.	The "6 Hour Day" We design our consultation and work session days for quality interaction rather than simply filling as many hours as possible. · We facilitate intense, comprehensive sessions that revolve around information that will smooth the progress of your project work beyond our in-person session dates.   · By limiting the length of periods within full day sessions and the overall length of a day, our clients are able to maintain focus and retain content.   · Breaks and lunch periods provide opportunity for reflection and discussion.
4.	Carefully prepared materials Each work session participant receives one copy of a ResearchTalk Inc. materials pack designed by us for each topic we teach. · The materials packs outline major steps used in a qualitative research project, as well as practical suggestions to help you advance with your work.   · Our materials are written to eliminate the need for note taking that might interfere with learning during a session. ^back to top