Employee Surveys
An area where interactive voting systems are being increasingly used is that of internal staff meeting or employee surveys. Many organisations now hold regular staff meetings of all their staff to update them on the latest developments within the organisation, the strategy of the organisation and issues affecting the employee. These staff meeting can either be held on an annual basis or more usually on a quarterly or half year basis and with a large workforce would either be held off site in a hired location, or held on site as a series of meetings over a day maybe in the staff restaurant.
In the past these meeting would consist of a one-way communication process where the presenters, usually senior managers, would give their presentation and then possibly ask questions to the audience (How much do you understand of what you have heard today?) and ask the audience to respond with a show of hands – something that some people are not happy with doing in a public environment.
Many organisations like doing a form of “Pulse Check” or “State of the Nation” event where the staff are asked for their opinions in a traditional questionnaire whether many or all of the questions are repeats of previous questions, results from the various events are then compared with previous events to see if there have been any substantial changes in opinions.
Using interactive voting systems now mean that these type of meeting can be a genuine two-way event as the presenters can gain real-time feedback on the presentations and to the questions that they put to the audience. Rather than ask participants to respond to verbal questions with a show of hands, the question is put as a multiple choice type question via the overhead projection system and participants press a button on the keypad that corresponds with the answer they want to give. The results are gathered in quickly and the results shown as a graph on the screen.
The first couple of questions are usually light-hearted warm up questions to get the participants used to the voting system, the next few questions are usually demographic in nature where the participants self select the sub group that they go into. The question, Are You... 1. Male; 2 Female is the simplest form of demographic question, other demographic questions could relate to management grade, length of time with the organisation, or region of employment for instance.
The next stage of the session would be to ask the questions to which answers are required. Some of the results gathered could be cut by the results of the demographics questions to see where there are differences between the different parts of the meeting
Other questions could be used to start a discussion based on an initial vote, and then the question can be revoted on after the discussion, and the two results compared side by side to see if there had been any change in views.
Organisations that have these meetings annually tend to rent in a service. Those organisations that have them more regularly tend to rent a service first of all then when they realise how easy an interactive voting system is to set up and use, and how they can also be used for other purposes such as training and education, and customer surveys tend to buy one.
Our Events Analyzer voting software data analysis package makes the combination and comparison of data from different meetings simple and easy, and allows users to drill down into the results of voting sessions to give users new insights into the data obtained. This picture shows how 3 different locations (differentiated by colour) have voted on the same question.
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