Whether you’re receiving feedback through staff and employee surveys, stakeholder and customer surveys or 360 degree feedback, they all have one thing in common – the feedback you gain from them is crucial to your business!

Feedback is important to your business as it enables you to gain a greater understanding of your organisational strengths, opportunities and problem areas. By gaining this understanding, leaders are able to make more informed, effective decisions and developmental changes.

However, there are 5 major survey mistakes you must avoid when receiving feedback to ensure that it leads to enhanced individual and organizational performance.
The 5 major survey mistakes to avoid are:

1. Poor Senior Leadership Engagement – It is important that you’re senior leaders are involved when implementing feedback initiatives to ensure survey success.

2. Failing to create the context for feedback – By creating the right context for feedback, it ensures that respondents remain engaged throughout the process to ensure valid results.

3. Weak survey design – To ensure valid results, you must carefully consider the questions asked, as well as those not asked, to ensure good quality feedback.

4. Ineffective post-survey communication – If you don’t effectively communicate feedback results to participants, it stops them from being able to make productive changes in the workplace.

5. Lack of follow-through action – If you don’t ensure follow-through actions after receiving feedback, your time and resources used to gather that feedback has been wasted.

In the next few blog posts, we will be looking at each of the 5 major survey mistakes to avoid in further detail, to ensure you don’t fall victim to them when completing your business feedback.

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