20 Most Popular Posts of 2012

While we highlight the most popular posts from a given month in our newsletter, one of my favorite activities is to look back and see what posts were the most popular overall each year. Keeping with tradition, here's a look back across the 20 most popular posts of 2012!   Customer Loyalty Month: 25...read more

Revisited: Executive Summary Report Writing Tips

Last Friday, National Tell a Story Day, inspired this month's Throwback Thrusday because survey reports and analysis is just that: Telling a Good (Compelling) Story. Whenever you tell a story, you have to start by setting the stage. The same is true with research reports whether you're working on...read more

Level I Evaluations: Items Selection and Piloting

In the last blog on Level 1 Evalations, we looked at different scales that can be used in creating a survey. Here let us consider some of the characteristics the items on the scales need to have so that the respondents can answer the survey effectively. “Items” means the “questions” or “statements”...read more

25 Most Popular Survey Posts of 2011

Last week I shared my favorite feedback management blog posts that fell outside the Top 25 Most Popular Posts of 2011. After crunching the analysis for most read articles, most shared and clicked posts, I've narrowed down our 476+ posts to just the Top 25.Please share your thoughts below on any...read more

Using Surveys for Requirements Elicitation

On occasion I get out of the cage and get involved with some good old-fashioned training. In this case, the class was an essentials course for business analysis. BA work is less about crunching numbers and more about supporting the success of enterprise-level projects. Not all business analysis work...read more

Address Book Sampling: Improve Customer Relationships

Proving to be a relational online survey provider, Cvent continues to further itself from basic survey providers by adding additional features over the weekend. Thanks to the development of the new Address Book Sampling, survey author’s can now conduct an advanced search based on a contact’s last...read more

Bringing a Broader Perspective to your Research

The times, they are a changin’ said Bob Dylan. They are indeed changing the face of marketing research. There was a day when a segmentation study could take a month or more to complete and easily cost a significant amount. Then the internet and the do-it-yourself (DIY) movement arrived. Long a...read more

7 Survey Don'ts for Collecting Feedback

There is a wealth of best practices we should all keep in mind with creating and designing questionnaires. But sometimes, we forget a few while writing satisfaction survey questions. Here are seven common survey mistakes that apply to training evaluation forms, employee engagement surveys, customer...read more

Tracking Your Training

Employee training programs can be quite expensive. From paying for someone to lead training workshops and activities to paying for your employees' time, it's important to track the program's success. While you may not be able to understand the full value of your employee training program until your...read more

An Employee's Parting Words

When is an employee most likely to be most honest? When their opinions will carry no consequences for their everyday routines – when they are departing their current position. While we regularly discuss conducting employee satisfaction surveys, it's equally important to gather feedback from your...read more
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