Employee Engagement Surveys: The Holy Grail of Creating Them


Employee engagement surveys are one of the most effective ways to get a reliable glimpse on how content your peers are. When collecting such data regularly employers can find out what makes their personnel engaged and loyal and how to increase these aspects. It’s extremely important as a not engaged employee tends to leave the company without any hesitations earlier than those people who are satisfied with their current job position, who approve and endorse the organization’s values and mission.

Keep in mind that a survey probes into staff’s thoughts that, in its turn, may help boost a corporate culture of employee engagement.

How R U team has prepared several essential tips explaining how a correct poll can be created.

Set goals

First of all, you should clearly understand what you expect from your survey and what it’s supposed to measure. For sure, employee engagement rates are the key point you want to learn, but if your objective is just to collect data to stay informed and do nothing with it, try to think past that. Remember that knowing your peers’ attitude towards their relationship with the company can help you significantly increase their engagement and subsequently lead to productivity boost.

Define the types of questions you want to ask

This point presupposes a whole range of variants but you definitely should avoid questions suggesting only ‘yes’ or ‘no’ answers. You should take into consideration:
- Spectrums: allow an employee to choose to what degree they agree or not with this or that statement
- Ranking systems: help a peer to determine his priorities and preferences
- Open-ended questions: leave some space to share their own thoughts

Read also: 4 Questions To Ask an Employee Who’s Leaving
Set a survey length and format

Don’t make your team members spend a whole eternity completing your questionnaire and select the most comfortable way to collect data: sometimes distributing simple handouts can appear to be much more easier and faster that filling in fields in a specially created online survey.

Think about anonymity

It worth mentioning that your peers may be more likely to share their thoughts and ideas without disclosing their names. Anonymity is a trick issue for each employee who wants to leave a negative feedback or to express his or her dissatisfaction. But a negative feedback is also important, so suggest your interviewees to mention, for example, the department they work in.

Clarify to employees why you conduct a survey

It's necessary to give employees a heads up why they’re being surveyed and what you are going to do with the received information. If they clearly understand your goals it’ll be a pleasure for them to help you reach all the objectives. Also it’s vital to let your peers know that you plan to collect more data regularly.

Collect surveys and analyze the received feedbacks

Once everybody completed the surveys collect all the data you received and analyze it thoroughly. Single out the most pleasant and disturbing points and after that discuss them with top-managers to decide what to do to fix the problems your employees indicated.

Keep records of the given data

It’s useless to ask your team members how they feel just once. You should track employees’ engagement and satisfaction over time so you’ll get the opportunity to see whether your actions on solving their problems are fruitful or not. Moreover, analyzing past and current feedbacks you can define what influences your staff’s happiness in a significant way and turn this information into an advantage. 

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