Organizational & Employee Engagement Surveys
Thought Leadership
Successful organizations realize that engaging and retaining employees is integral to their ability to sustain a leadership position and grow their business in the marketplace. But how can you tell if your people are engaged? Surveys have become one of the most widely used techniques for quickly and efficiently gathering data from a large number of associates. Web-based surveys that are designed, implemented, analyzed and interpreted by professionals are useful and powerful tools that can be more reliable and more cost-effective than any other approach currently available. In fact, the cost of implementing a survey can be negligible, especially when the value of the information obtained is taken into consideration.
Surveys may be used in many ways, including:
- Understanding employee characteristics, opinions and attitudes
- Assessing behaviors in employees’ day-to-day work experience
- Creating baseline measures to be used for benchmarking
- Utilizing the data to drive organizational change and development
The popularity and widespread use of surveys has led many to believe that it is a simple, straightforward process. In fact, the survey process is a complex one that is in need of careful management. For the data garnered from surveys to be truly valuable, careful consideration must be given not only to the questions asked but the way they are asked, to survey delivery and response gathering as well as the management of the overall process.
TalentQuest provides consulting expertise in survey design, development, implementation and interpretation. We have the technology required to deliver and manage surveys for large employee groups and the expertise to interpret responses in a way that will enable you to maximize employee performance, engagement and retention. In addition, TalentQuest’s consultants will help you communicate the results of the survey and the employee engagement metrics to your leadership team or your organization as a whole, extracting even greater value from the exercise.
Surveys can help:
- Assess perceptions of the organization’s senior leadership team.
- Determine if the current organizational structure facilitates productivity and achievement of work.
- Determine if employees feel satisfied and empowered in their jobs.
- Identify barriers to enhancing employees’ performance.
- Determine whether employees understand and are committed to the company’s stated mission or vision.
- Determine whether employees think organizational changes are occurring too quickly or not quickly enough.
- Achieve authentic employee engagement.
