How to Collect Employee Feedback That Gets Acted On

To collect employee feedback usefully, the collection is the easy part. What determines whether people respond next time is whether anything happened after the last one.

Why response rates fall

People answer once and see nothing change.

Results summarized and never actioned
No visible owner for any theme raised
Actions agreed and not tracked
No communication back about what changed

What closing the loop requires

Themes identified, from the responses
An owner per theme, not a general commitment
Actions as records, with deadlines
Progress visible, at least to those who raised it
Communication back, stating what was done

How to set it up in Jestor

Collect responses through a form in Jestor, anonymously where appropriate.
Categorize responses into themes, with a field an agent can help fill.
Create an action record per theme, with an owner and a deadline.
Track those actions on a Kanban like any other process.
Communicate back what was done before running the next round.

Why choose Jestor for internal feedback?

Because a form submission becomes a record inside a process in Jestor, feedback can trigger an action with an owner rather than becoming a row in a summary.

Tracking the resulting actions on a board is what makes the next round's response rate defensible: people can see what happened to the last one.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can responses be anonymous?

Yes, where the form is configured for it. See jestor.com.

How do themes become actions?

As records with an owner and a deadline.

Why communicate back?

Otherwise the next round's response rate falls.

Video Tutorial: Step by Step

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