Powerful Exit Survey Tips

When we last left off, we discussed some of the ways that you can make employee exit surveys more powerful, and how to start making them an important part of your business. Today, we’ll continue looking at some of the tips that will help make the employee exit surveys a more powerful way to make decisions in your business that will improve employee retention.

Make Sure Everyone in the Company Knows Their Importance For employee exit surveys to be valuable, the entire company needs to understand how important they are and why. From top to bottom, they need to feel that the results of these surveys are going to have an effect on their careers, and that if/when they leave, they should share all of their thoughts and the company is going to take those thoughts seriously. When everyone knows how important the feedback is, they’ll answer honestly and do their best.

Track Changes Over Time Employee exit surveys become significantly more useful if you track changes over time rather than rely on any one measurement. What you get from your employees the first month you run the survey is not nearly as important as how easily you’re able to change those results over time and, if possible, decrease the frequency of collecting the surveys as a result of the changes you made within the company. Take the Feedback Seriously The feedback you receive is only as useful as you make it.

Take the feedback seriously, because there are always pieces of information in there that are going to be useful when it comes to helping you make decisions. Employee exit surveys can tell you more than any other employee survey can provide, and they need to play a crucial role in your company, and the decisions that you choose to make in the future.

Employee exit surveys are incredibly valuable, and if you use the feedback correctly, you’ll find that you’re able to drastically reduce turnover and make sure that those people leaving your company are doing so only for reasons outside of your control. Sign up with SurveyMethods today and start running your employee exit surveys to learn more about your employees, your processes, and more.