Watching Survey Responses Is Like Playing An Addictive Video Game
February 13, 2008 by Angela White
I’m hardly posting these days, I know. This is certainly our busiest time of year for training. But right now I seem to be doing a lot more communications and a lot less training. I’m still gearing up for the big 3-Day Financial training which is all in the classroom and utilizes about 20 SMEs. I’m still creating new online learning activities. But the focus right now is on our internal communications.
Our Communications Committee just released an extensive communications survey to the whole division. It took us weeks to come up with the questions and I barely survived the writing-by-committee (that was so important to have because of the nature of the content). I sent it out an hour ago and 50 people (out of ~200) have responded already!
Watching the responses come in live through SurveyMonkey is like playing an addictive video game.
Our plan is to actually do something with the results. From what I am seeing there is some really good feedback and useful ideas coming in. The Committee hopes to use this information to create a Communications Plan that we can recommend to the Big Boss and his Senior Manager types. A little change, if not a lot, is bound to come from it.
On another note, I released the video of the Big Boss introducing our Strategic Plan as I mentioned in this post. This was an attempt to do something different - using a new technology. I filmed him and edited it myself in iMovie, YouTube style. There’s music and everything. Beats the usual wordy PowerPoint slides in the front of a large auditorium.
The success of that video has led to a request from our Safety department to do one for them on how to move boxes without getting hurt… could be a new career for me!
