Help employees to thrive by using learning programmes that drive real growth

Survey software is a great way to measure your learning and development impact. Core areas to consider when evaluating L&D effectiveness include:

• Pre- and post-training surveys to measure what employees learned and how the training will be applied to their role. You can also track overall satisfaction scores and get feedback on the content and presenter effectiveness, etc.

• Career development surveys are another way to understand employee perceptions of growth opportunities so that you can invest in the right programming.

• Use ongoing employee engagement surveys to monitor where employees have unmet L&D needs, plus see how recent L&D programmes align with any shifts in overall satisfaction.

Your L&D survey should measure satisfaction, engagement, relevance, knowledge retention and application, as well as future learning needs. As you’re designing your surveys, you should ensure that you’re capturing feedback before, during and after training.

Not sure where to start? Check out 30+ training survey questions for inspiration. Plus, Build with AI lets you type a short prompt and then creates a custom survey for you. 

If you choose to build your survey with AI, we recommend including the following in your AI prompt (shown here with a pre-training survey example):

• Your role: “I am a learning and development manager at a non-profit organisation.”

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• Employee engagement survey template

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If you choose to build your survey with AI, we recommend including the following in your AI prompt (shown here with an example):

• Your role: “I am an HR manager at a life sciences company.”

• Your goal: “I want to understand how we can improve the experience of employees who are transitioning into management roles, with a focus on creating a team vision and modelling accountability.”

• What you want to know: “Specifically, I want to understand whether employees know how to set clear goals and provide coaching and feedback.”

• Your audience: “I want to hear from employees who are new to management – whether recently promoted or newly hired into leadership roles – across various departments.” 

• Any other specifics: “Finally, I would like open-ended questions for deeper insights into where new managers feel the least confident.”

Look for learning and development survey software that’s intuitive to use but includes advanced question types, logic and personalisation features.

When designing L&D programmes, it’s important to find a solution that makes it easy to obtain feedback before, during and after employee training, plus to centralise those insights all in one place.

You’ll also need to look for platforms with robust analytics and reporting capabilities, such as dashboards, sentiment analysis, data export features and powerful filters.

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