SurveyMethods for Productivity

On a day-to-day basis, it’s important to know how your business is doing. Every individual employee works independently, and since it’s not possible to monitor how everyone is doing, it becomes very important to make sure that you have some way to make sure that the office is as productive as possible. Now, there are a lot of ways to judge productivity, and some of them are going to require your own expertise. But one interesting way is to use SurveyMethods’ software to evaluate how employees work and whether or not there is more for you to do.

It starts with anonymity. SurveyMethods online survey software has an anonymity option, and the only way to get truthful answers from your employees is to make sure that they absolutely cannot be punished for anything they say and so you have no way of monitoring their answers. Here's why your employee surveys should be anonymous .

With that in mind, every day or every week, you should have your employees fill out a very brief survey. That survey should include questions about their own perceived productivity, for example: How many hours of the day did you feel you were working hard? How many hours of the day were you not working at all? Did you feel challenged with your work today? Did you feel like you could succeed at these challenges? Did you feel supported with your questions? You can come up with questions yourself, but you ask questions that have to do with how productive the employees genuinely felt they were in the period and how much they could have worked harder.

The goal of this, if you find a way to incentivize honest answers, is for someone on staff to have a way of evaluating whether or not employees felt that they are as productive as they can be, and how much they got accomplished. Once you’ve put this survey in place, you can also monitor changes to it on a daily or weekly basis using the online survey reporting program. Every day someone on staff can log into reports that are live updated and find out what that day’s productivity looked like.

If it seems to be dropping, you can figure out what policies to put in place to make it better. If it’s improving, you can figure out what changed to help it improve. SurveyMethods’ software was designed to help your business in more ways than simply survey research.

While survey research is at the heart of our online survey software, the truth is that survey software can be used for anything within your business that warrants data collection, and productivity feedback is another way that your business could benefit from a SurveyMethods subscription .

As you can see, the idea here is to monitor more than simply how much they actually produce, because often that can be very hard to judge. Someone in marketing, for example, may do a lot of work that doesn’t pay off, or very little work that pays off well, and one can argue that both were productive. Ideally you have something in place to figure out how to evaluate each employee on their productivity.

But you can also find out if your employees themselves feel they’re working hard enough. If they don’t, chances are that their productivity can be improved regardless of how much they got done.