Needless to say, check-in's and progress updates are important. A baseline gets established and then the work gets measured along the way. An important piece of employee engagement surveys that many organizations leave out is the ongoing measurement of how things are progressing.

A survey gets released, a plan is formulated to improve the low rated areas, but then somehow a year later another survey is conducted and the scores remain the same. Many factors can lead to this unwanted cycle, but here are the top three reasons we have found when we begin working with our clients and what you can do to break the cycle.

Employee surveys can be an incredibly powerful tool, but unfortunately most organizations squander the opportunity by making one crucial misstep once the survey results have come back. Learn what that misstep is and some recommendations to solve it!

With all of the good and important data that can arise from employee surveys, it is absolutely crucial to set objectives, communicate the importance to the employees, and, most importantly, to know and understand the key identifiers that are important to measure.