Employee Review Survey: Growth, Impact and Goals (GIG) Template

It’s time to take a new approach to annual employee reviews. Our research has found that employee reviews are often too infrequent, focus too much on past performance and, ultimately, don’t really help employees learn or grow. To try to make a better place for employees to develop their abilities as they develop their careers, SurveyMonkey has put a new system in place. 

GIGs, which stands for growth, impact and goals, are quarterly conversations that all employees at SurveyMonkey have with their managers. They focus on what impact the employee has had on the product, team or culture; what they can do to have a greater impact in the future; and how they can develop their career goals in the quarter ahead. 

Most importantly, GIGs are employee led, which makes the employee review feel less like a performance evaluation and more like a conversation about what’s going well and what needs to be improved.

Most of the employees who we surveyed said they felt comfortable leading the conversation itself, especially when they used the six-question template below to help guide their conversation. Simply send your employees this survey, get them to fill it out in advance and then use their responses to help guide your conversation. 

The results of trying GIGs at your own organisation might surprise you: according to our internal surveys, 95% of employees say they are in sync with their managers in terms of their impact and 80% feel aligned in terms of their goals for the next quarter. Try it for yourself or learn more about SurveyMonkey’s journey to reimagining how we give and receive feedback at work.

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