Tag: employee engagement survey
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How to Elevate Your Employee Listening Program in 2023
A new year offers a fresh start – a chance to set intentions and align actions to make this your best year yet. In addition to reflecting on your personal goals for the year, this is also a great time to pause and revisit the purpose and outcomes of your employee listening program. In 2022, I […]
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Dos and Don’ts: How to Drive Accountability for Acting on Employee Feedback
Research shows that employees who work for organizations with a feedback program in place are more engaged. Taking it a step further, organizations that turn employee feedback into action “really well” have employees who are twice as engaged as those whose employer does not act on feedback well or at all.1 Despite these positive outcomes, only […]
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Feedback is Meant to be Shared! Best Practices for Providing Access to Open-Ended Survey Comments
Open-ended survey questions allow employees to speak up anonymously, offer context surrounding their multiple-choice and numeric survey responses, and provide additional understanding around topics of interest. These qualitative responses to open-ended questions can also feel empowering to employees because they want their voices to be heard.Unfortunately, many organizations that gather employee input via surveys are […]
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Employee Experience vs. Expectations: How to Make Sure Your Organization is Upholding its End of the Bargain
Many employees leave an organization within a year of being hired because the job doesn’t meet their expectations.Take a moment and reflect on the last time you were applying for a new job. Think about why you applied to that role. What made you seek out that opportunity?In most cases, people apply to opportunities that […]
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Surveys are One Part of Your Listening Strategy. Are You Over Relying on Them?
As organizations become more adept at using surveys to gather employee input, there can be a tendency to use surveying as a default – even when it may not be the best method for accomplishing your goal. Survey tools can give everyone the opportunity to share their opinions confidentially, track progress over time, understand the relationship […]
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Start the Conversation: “What Engagement Means to You”
Many employees are asked to fill out engagement surveys, but they aren’t often asked what engagement really means to them. As part of an ongoing effort to focus on and improve the experience of their workforce, Border States Electric (BSE) has stepped back to fully understand this important perspective.
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Why your Employee Survey Participation is Low—and How to Fix It
When running an employee feedback survey, participation numbers are a common concern. Everyone wants to hit 100 percent, or at least achieve a sample size large enough to feel confident in the results. This is a valid concern, as it is hard to find much value in a survey if you fail to get a […]
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People analytics in the world of small to medium-sized organizations
“Big data” is hot right now. The terms used to describe this trend are many: people analytics, data science, data-driven organizations, predictive modeling, machine learning . . . and the list goes on . . . I find myself wondering how these concepts fit together. Are these terms different lingo for the same general idea? […]
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Should Pay Be a Part of the Employee Engagement Conversation?
Do you ask questions about compensation on your employee engagement survey? If so, you may want to reconsider. Our research (and loads of others’) suggests that compensation is important for recruiting high quality candidates, securing job offers, and nudging people to pursue promotions (Cable, 2013). Pay does not, however, drive employee engagement. So if it’s […]
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10 ways to make your employee engagement process more strategic
As Human Resource professionals know all too well, employee engagement surveys face the danger of being seen as a check-the-box, HR initiative. However, when done right, feedback from engagement surveys can have a major impact on the execution of strategic objectives. Here are 10 ways to make your employee engagement survey more strategic. Customize your […]