The decision to conduct an employee survey in your company has been made. By doing so, you have taken a decisive step toward greater understanding and connection!
First, the goal is to convince your employees to actively participate in order to get the most out of your survey. Below you will find helpful measures and arguments for achieving the highest possible participation rate in your employee survey.
Provide a rationale
Anyone who takes the time to answer questions also wants to know why and what it will achieve. Explain to your employees why you are conducting this analysis and what benefits it holds for the entire team and the corporate culture. Clearly signal your readiness to take on feedback and initiate changes if necessary.
Signal openness
Make sure everyone is informed and make it clear how important every single voice is to you. Also let your employees know that you are open to critical feedback. Employees are allowed and should share what is on their minds.
Guarantee anonymity
The responses from the survey are compiled and presented as an overall result. Departments are only evaluated starting from 5 participants to prevent any association with specific individuals. Foreign-language responses are translated automatically. Emphasize the anonymous evaluation to your employees to build trust and create the framework for constructive and honest criticism.
Allow time
Enable participation during working hours. PERSENTIS clients have achieved the best participation rates when providing a dedicated tablet and creating specific time slots for this purpose. Filling out the questionnaire takes an average of 10-15 minutes.
Respond reliably
Be sure to follow up the analysis with action. Feel free to also provide an overview of the results and the initial measures you will derive from them. When your employees see that their participation makes an impact, they will certainly go the extra mile in the next survey.
Learn how to design invitations that actually get accepted in the next article:
