When Employee Surveys are Completely Useless
Very often, at the end of an employee survey, we end up with a big, big phonebook style listing of all our results. And this is great, but we have to make sense of it all.
Topic
Employee Surveys
A collection of 28 issues
Did the lockdowns change work for the better?
I've been exploring this in our UK workplace study and through client feedback, and there's still quite a heated debate going on about working from home ...
While some leaders regard the pre-pandemic "normal", as a time when everything worked just fine, there's
Is a score of 3.7 good?
Maybe! Dan uses some of Surveylab's UK Workplace Study data to show three ways to present your results and when you might want to use each approach.
What's it really like to work 'here'? Part 2
(Photo by Museums Victoria on Unsplash)
I love my work. Hmmmn, ok maybe not always. I should qualify - sometimes, I love my work.
One of the activities that count towards enjoying my work is getting to work with different clients and figuring out what's going on there.
What's it really like to work 'here'? (Part 1)
The real state of the Employee Experience in the UK? How do you measure up?
Understanding Employee Ownership (+ a free survey offer)
Awareness of employee ownership and the benefits it brings to organisations is growing.
Example wellbeing questions for employee surveys
If you need example questions about wellbeing at work for your employee survey ... I shared these with a new client last week.
New Year, same old survey
If you run an annual survey - be it customer experience or employee feedback - you do it every year, ask the same questions, review the report, repeat - then we have a new year challenge for you.
Another staff survey! Why will it be any different this time?
What happens when you need insight and feedback from staff but your organisation's track record with staff surveys has not exactly been a success? For some, the disappointment was a poor response rate. For others, the results simply weren't what they hoped for. Probably, nothing happened.
Benchmarking employee surveys: average, better than or worse?
Benchmarking the results of your employee survey helps you get a feel for where the organisation is. And yet too often it leads to inaction. In the worst case, results are justified or explained away, instead of action being taken to improve things.