Simple Feedback Survey

The technique has been borrowed from Philip Rosedale‘s interview with Kevin Rose on the Foundation Video Series (YouTube) in the interview Philip mentioned a technique he always did as CEO to gauge feedback and to gauge a trend line, on a very frequent basis he would send a survey out to all the employees asking them three simple questions:

• One a scale of 1–5 (1 being really bad and 5 being really good) how well am I doing at my job right now?
• What was the key motivation for giving me that rating?
• Is there anything I can improve on?

Ingredients

• Software — Survey Tool of your choice

Creating the Survey

You can use any free or paid survey tool as the feature set you will need is very basic. Below is a basic step-by-step for creating the survey:

1. Create a new survey, ideally name it “QX — 20XX”
2. Create a basic instruction text saying something like “This survey is purely about [Persons Name]l, the role he plays within the organisation and your overall feedback. Please answer the survey honestly as all feedback is anonymous.”
3. Next, create a rating module with a 1–5 scoring and give it the question “How well am I doing at my job right now?”
4. Next, create an open text box (long text) and name the question “What was the key motivation for giving me that rating?”
5. The Last step is then to create another open text box (long text) with the question being “

• Is there anything I can improve on?”

Recommendations

That’s pretty much it, you have complete the survey, I would recommend the following:

• You should send an email with a link to the survey to all the people you have worked a lot with over the past quarter, half year or more
• Create a nice email about wanting to gauge feedback for self improvement
• Send the email with a deadline of about 2 weeks
• At the end of the first week, send a nice little poke reminder email
• On the Last day send out another poke email
• Do not try to identify who said what, but grasp the bigger message on how well you’re doing and what are the areas mostly highlighted for improvement