The goal of an employee experience survey is to gather valuable feedback from your employees regarding their engagement and overall work experience.
To help businesses gauge how their employees currently feel about their work, future, and place within the company, Your Say offers the employee experience pulse survey.
This survey is designed to cover many of the same questions and categories as our comprehensive employee experience survey, but in a truncated manner that allows for more immediate insights in the short term.
So, for example, if your business recently made notable changes in leadership, management, services provided, or operational procedures, the pulse survey is a way to gain timely feedback from your employees regarding their opinions about those recent changes.
The key purpose of the employee experience pulse survey is to gather invaluable feedback from your employees so that you can evaluate things such as:
This feedback allows your business to identify where key areas of improvement lie and, as a result, develop the necessary strategies to enhance your employees’ engagement, satisfaction, and productivity.
The pulse survey brings invaluable information to light, which ultimately benefits your business and its employees. With our survey, you’ll benefit by:
Learn which components of your business operations are working well and cater to fulfilling and purpose-driven employment.
Learn which components of your business operations are not working and how those issues are impacting employee satisfaction, engagement, and retention.
Your employees get a chance to voice their genuine opinions and put forward ideas that would bring about positive change for them and the company at large. When your employees are heard, it improves your relationship with them.
Being able to take all of that invaluable feedback from your employees to enable meaningful changes both in the short and long term.
In general, our pulse survey is broken up into six phases, which are as follows:
You have a conversation with us so we can understand your business’s individual survey requirements and goals. We’ll provide you with a live demonstration of the survey as well as a formal proposal.
We help you get everything set up! All you need to do is follow the instruction guide and templates we provide. We'll create the survey project, send and discuss edits, and provide a preview for approval.
We’ll send out the pulse survey invites along with scheduled reminders. You'll get regular response updates. Generally, the survey will be live for two to three weeks, but we can extend this based on your employees’ response rates.
We'll analyse the results and prepare written reports and create online dashboards for reference.
Final survey results are obtained and we schedule an interpretation session with you to cover the key takeaways. We'll also schedule a consultation to discuss any areas that require attention with an HR Specialist.
If you choose, we provide additional assistance. This can include presenting the results to all staff, HR support, or action planning discussions.
This survey helps the leadership team understand if employees feel a genuine sense of progress and if the company’s progress and success align with their goals.
Engaged employees experience greater purpose, job satisfaction, and well-being, leading to better relationships at work. The survey measures employee motivation and involvement in their roles and teams.
Belonging is the sense of value and inclusion in the workplace, leading to greater engagement and motivation. The survey asks if employees feel included and valued in their team and the company.
Measuring connections shows the level of collaboration, communication, and commitment within the business. The survey assesses how easily employees collaborate and the challenges they face.
Progress involves both individual growth and the company's development. When both align, employees are more engaged, satisfied, and committed. The survey helps leadership understand if employees feel a sense of progress and alignment with the company’s goals.
We offer competitive pricing for our employee experience pulse survey, starting at
excluding GST.
A pulse survey, whether it’s focusing on factors like employee experience and engagement or client satisfaction, are smaller and more frequent surveys designed to complement more traditional annual surveys. They’re referred to as “pulse” surveys as their intention is to check the pulse of a business’s health, employee engagement, and other relevant factors.
They allow businesses of all sizes to gain a clear snapshot of what’s working and what isn’t so that meaningful improvements can be made when and as they’re needed throughout different times of the year. Thanks to their frequency, they also help eliminate the ambiguity of how any efforts to improve the employee experience are working out over time.
Compared to more traditional annual surveys, pulse surveys are purpose-built for more frequent evaluations of employee engagement and satisfaction. How often you choose to run them is ultimately up to you and could depend on the size and complexities of your business, but we suggest considering a quarterly cadence. This allows you to leverage more consistent insights throughout the year without overwhelming your employees with an excess of surveys.
Both traditional employee engagement surveys and employee pulse surveys aim to gain insights into overall employee satisfaction and engagement, but they go about in different ways. As noted, pulse surveys are performed more frequently and focus on providing a more immediate snapshot of engagement in a workplace. Annual engagement surveys, on the other hand, are more comprehensive and are more so a deep dive into various facets of employee engagement.
Pulse surveys serve the purpose of detecting trends early on, flagging newly emerging issues, measuring the impact of more recent changes, and supporting iterative team and organisational improvements. A full-fledged employee engagement survey seeks to establish a full baseline of organisational engagement, identify long-term cultural strengths and weaknesses, and ultimately guide a range of strategic HR and structural initiatives.
While the number of questions can differ from organisation to organisation, you’ll find many pulse surveys tend to cover core questions across Key Performance Indicators and can be tailored to focus on more immediate timelines (e.g. “How supported have you felt over the past three months?”). Annual engagement surveys, by contrast, often can contain 40 to 60 (or more) questions and touch on broader organisational themes and concerns.
Ultimately, pulse surveys and annual engagement surveys are designed to complement each other in providing your business with both comprehensive and granular insights.
If you’re looking to conduct an employee experience pulse survey, Your Say can help. Our services were established to help businesses conduct affordable and insightful surveys that can drive actionable change and improvements both in the short- and long-term. Not only does this benefit your business’s operations, but its culture and overall employee retention as well.
When you engage with Your Say, you can tell us what you want covered in your employee pulse survey and we’ll also provide you with guidance and suggestions of our own. Once you’re happy with the survey’s structure, we’ll handle the project onboarding and make any necessary adjustments before launching the survey for your company. Employees will be provided with a link to access the survey, and they can provide their feedback with confidence knowing that their responses will be totally anonymous.
We’ll then analyse the survey results and put all the results into a digestible report that enables you to implement meaningful changes and improvements that result in a greater employee experience for all.
The only way to know that your efforts in fostering positive workplace culture are working is through getting genuine feedback from your employees – that’s what an employee engagement pulse survey is all about.
With the insights you gain, you’ll know where the biggest points of improvement need to be made – whether it’s in terms of the overall culture, nurturing better team cohesion and interdepartmental communication, providing improved support or processes for employees, and so much more. All of these improvements that can be actioned from a pulse survey, on both an individual and company-wide level, foster a more positive and cohesive workplace culture where employees feel motivated and aligned.
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