Surveys fail quietly: leading questions, poor samples, tired enumerators and unchecked data produce numbers that look precise and mislead. Team leaders carry responsibility for avoiding that outcome while also keeping fieldwork on schedule and on budget. Five days prepare research leads, M&E officers and field supervisors to run data collection that is both well designed and well managed. You write clear questionnaires, test them through cognitive interviews and pilots, and choose between household, key informant and facility survey approaches.
Sampling sessions cover sample size, stratification, clustering and random selection. Technical labs build forms in XLSForm for KoboToolbox and ODK, with skip logic, constraints, GPS and photo capture, then deploy them to tablets and phones, sync data and export to Excel, SPSS or R. Leadership sessions deal with enumerator training, supervision, ethics, consent, remote monitoring dashboards and data cleaning. The course suits M&E and research officers, survey coordinators, statisticians, programme managers and NGO and government staff. Delivery is classroom, online or in-house with a CPD-accredited certificate. Afterwards you can lead a survey from concept to clean dataset.
Programme decisions, donor reports and policy debates all depend on data that someone had to collect, often in difficult conditions. Mobile devices have made collection faster and cheaper, but they have not removed the old problems of unclear questions, biased samples and weak supervision. In some respects they add new ones, such as device management, connectivity and data security.
The Leadership and Performance in Data Collection, Survey Design & Mobile Tools Training Course joins technical method with team leadership. Participants start with research questions and indicators, move to questionnaire design and translation, sampling and power, and then to digital form building, testing and deployment. Management topics include recruiting and training enumerators, planning logistics, supervising in the field, motivating teams, handling ethical dilemmas and tracking performance with daily quality checks.
Most of the week is hands-on. Each participant builds a working mobile survey, collects practice data in the room, cleans a dataset with errors planted for them to find, and prepares a field operations plan. The result is a set of tools and habits ready to apply on the next assignment.
At the end of the course, participants will be able to:
Participants complete the course with:
Technical skills and team management are taught side by side through practice. Participants experience:
Day 1: From Research Question to Survey Design
Day 2: Questionnaire Design and Sampling
Day 3: Building Mobile Data Collection Forms
Day 4: Fieldwork Leadership and Quality Control
Day 5: Data Cleaning, Documentation and Use
The course is aimed at those who commission, design or lead data collection, including:
Participants who attend all sessions and complete the labs receive a CPD-accredited Certificate of Completion issued by Vision Reach Global Consultancy.
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By the end of the Leadership and Performance in Data Collection, Survey Design & Mobile Tools programme, you'll be able to translate research questions and indicators into a survey design, write unbiased questions and structure a questionnaire for easy analysis, calculate sample sizes and apply stratified, cluster or random sampling, and build and test mobile forms in xlsform with validation and skip logic. The full breakdown of topics is covered session by session in the Course Outline tab above.
The course is aimed at those who commission, design or lead data collection, including: Monitoring and evaluation officers and managers, Research officers and survey coordinators, Field supervisors and team leaders, Programme managers and project officers, Statisticians and data analysts in public agencies, Information management officers in NGOs, Academic researchers and graduate students, and Consultants conducting baseline and evaluation surveys.
Leadership and Performance in Data Collection, Survey Design & Mobile Tools Training Course typically runs as 5 Days. It's available as in-person classroom, live virtual, and in-house corporate training — every course can also be delivered on-site for your team on dates that suit you.
Leadership and Performance in Data Collection, Survey Design & Mobile Tools Training Course is scheduled in-classroom in Nairobi, Kenya, Mombasa, Kenya, Naivasha, Kenya, and Kisumu, Kenya, and 14 other locations, plus a live interactive virtual classroom you can join from anywhere. Check the schedule panel above for exact upcoming dates and fees in each location.
The next live virtual cohort of Leadership and Performance in Data Collection, Survey Design & Mobile Tools starts October 26, 2026, with new classroom cohorts also running on a rolling basis. Pick a date and location in the schedule panel above, then click "Register for the Course" — it takes a few minutes and your seat is confirmed once payment or a signed purchase order is received.
Yes — delegates who meet the attendance requirement receive a Certificate of Completion for Leadership and Performance in Data Collection, Survey Design & Mobile Tools Training Course from Vision Reach Global Consultancy, issued in the name you register with, so double-check the spelling at checkout.
Leadership and Performance in Data Collection, Survey Design & Mobile Tools Training Course is pitched at intermediate professionals. If you're unsure whether it's the right fit for your current role or background, message our training advisors before you register and they'll help you confirm.
Fees for Leadership and Performance in Data Collection, Survey Design & Mobile Tools Training Course vary by delivery location and format and are shown in real time in the schedule panel above once you pick a date. Register 3 or more delegates on the same course together and a 5% team discount is applied automatically — larger cohorts can request a custom corporate quote.
Yes — Leadership and Performance in Data Collection, Survey Design & Mobile Tools Training Course can be delivered on-site at your offices (or virtually for distributed teams), with case studies and examples tailored to your industry and the specific challenges your team is working through. Switch to the "In-House" tab in the schedule panel above to request a proposal.
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