Companies are struggling with their engagement survey response rates. Improve yours with our employer 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.

Read Step Seven – Data Collection.

Read Step Eight – Timing.

Step Nine – Follow-up Actions

Ultimately the success or failure of your employee surveys rests on the effectiveness of follow-up actions. It’s how your staff knows that they’re being heard and what makes them feel more valued. Therefore they will be more engaged and their work performance will increase, as will worker retention.

Having clearly defined staff survey objectives will focus which areas will be targeted. It’s important to be realistic. You should focus on a small number of issues at one time and on those which will deliver maximum business impact.

You need to communicate what is happening with your employees and how their input has resulted in these changes. Making them fully aware of the impact of their contribution will increase the positive effects of the engagement survey.

As a result of your swift follow-up actions and fulfilling your aims, your staff will also be more likely to take part in a staff questionnaire in the future. This means that future surveys will be more effective and over time employee engagement is more likely to rise.

Move onto Step Ten – Post-survey Review 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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