Tag: employee survey
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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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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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Tired of Low Response Rates on Your Surveys? Invest in This.
The hard work is done. You’ve thoughtfully designed your survey, you’ve accounted for all the ways you want to view the data and you’ve taken steps to ensure a great user experience.Now, one question remains – will people actually take it?At Newmeasures, one of the first topics we address with clients when kicking off a […]
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Re-Energize Your Engagement Survey
You know the scenario – you’ve collected employee engagement feedback for several years. It has resulted in some changes but now the process has seemed to have lost its energy. Leaders essentially know what topics will emerge as key drivers, but they’re not sure how to do more than they already have. They view the […]
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They’re Onboarded! Now What?
Hiring manager thought: “Success! We recruited and hired several new employees. Employees that are promising . . . and expensive, enthusiastic . . . and time-consuming, skilled . . . and not yet ready to execute. And, some say as many as 17% may quit within their first 3 months, with as many as 30% […]
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What Kindergarten Taught Me about Employee Engagement
With the school year coming to a close, I have been reflecting on the past year and how my kids have grown. This year marked the milestone of sending my oldest to public school and with that came the anxiety of putting my kindergartener on a bus. This would be the first time I didn’t […]