Companies are struggling with their staff survey response rates. Improve yours with our employee engagement strategy in ten easy steps.

Engagement Survey Response Rates

After answering the question ‘what is staff engagement survey?’ and discussing the hows and whys of engagement survey response rates we can begin to tackle the issue of improving results.

great{with}talent offers an implementation pack with their groundbreaking engagement surveys. As companies often use staff questionnaires year in and year out, the best way to improve engagement survey response rates is by refining the survey process.

From the beginning you need clearly defined objectives. An improved survey experience will engage users and keep them responding in future. great{with}talent advises ten steps to achieving this goal.

Read Step One – Communications Plan.

Read Step Two – Resource Allocation.

Read Step Three – Brand the Survey Initiative.

Read Step Four – Roles and Responsibilities.

Read Step Five – Management Endorsement.

Read Step Six – Using Right Language.

Step Seven – Data Collection

When conducting an employee engagement survey you need to consider ease of access and practicality. You need to be aware of which employees have access to the internet. You can always conduct the staff questionnaire via pen/pencil or use a combination.

Conducting the staff engagement survey online has many advantages. This method allows for ease and speed in both data collection and analysis. Therefore an online survey is the preferred method.

According to great{with}talent online surveys secure higher engagement survey response rates than paper-and-pencil. Data is also a lot less likely to get lost with an online survey.

It’s recommended that where possible you use an online survey because the speed of results is also important when considering engagement survey response rates. Otherwise staff members can become disinterested and indifferent to the results.

Move onto Step Eight – Timing or see the Steps One Through Ten.

Contact great{with}talent and find out more about their TalentEngage employee engagement surveys.

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