Employee Engagement Survey Second Squeeze

You have your “official” employee survey responses.

But, what’s between the lines?

The responses to your employee engagement survey offer a snapshot of what your employees think, or at least what they want you to think they think. But, if you cross-check those answers against the rest of your business metrics, do they make sense?

Stop using those answers as the end of the drill. Instead, use them as the beginning of deeper conversations with, for and through your employees. They have more to say — and much more to offer — than what’s showing up in your survey results.

This is especially critical if you’ve built shiny new strategies, plans and budget requests based on these results. They likely include a whole lot of “more” without considering if any of that “more” is actually “better.” Without a deeper dive, there’s a pretty good chance you’re gonna start unleashing even more uncertainty, noise, disruption and angst at a time when your employees need exactly the opposite from you.

Let’s take another look and do a second squeeze on those results to coax every last drop of goodness from your survey.