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Give your people a voice with a tailored Xref Engage survey.
Increase retention and reduce turnover with quick employee feedback from an Xref Pulse Survey.
Engagement surveys are a powerful method for understanding organisational strengths and weaknesses, enhancing employee engagement, and driving continuous improvement in the workplace.
Not all surveys are created equal. It is vital to ask employees the right questions and effectively use the data collected to obtain better results.
When conducted well, surveys can drive positive organisational change, improve retention and enhance morale.
Xref’s Engage platform helps organisations conduct professional, high-performing surveys every single time.
Xref Engage's Employee Engagement Surveys are designed by behavioural scientists who have used years of data, research and experience to create best-practice surveys, questions and analytics.
In this blog, we explore how Xref Engage works, the surveys you can conduct on the platform, and the lessons learned from different organisations.
Xref Engage is an extension of the Xref platform, offering a specialised suite of surveys and a range of custom engagement surveys to help organisations better understand their people and create positive change.
With Xref Engage, organisations can access expert-designed survey templates that can be customised or created from scratch.
All survey templates have been designed using years of scientific research in workplace psychology, management, leadership, and statistical analysis.
Organisations using Xref Engage also receive support from leading experts. Our highly experienced consultants help with survey and question selection, data interpretation and the best way to harness results for effective change.
Engagement surveys remain one of the best ways to measure employee engagement and gather staff insights to improve performance.
For over 100 years, organisations have used a version of engagement surveys. Research indicates that the first surveys were conducted in the 1920s by management teams looking to improve employee relations and employee loyalty.
Since then, engagement surveys have evolved into a more scientific practice, with organisations around the world using surveys as a proven method that drives positive change.
New technology has made running surveys easier. Data can be automatically analysed and presented to management teams, who can then create strategies for responding to feedback and improving performance.
While engagement surveys are a powerful tool for leaders, they are also preferred by employees.
Research by Wakefield Research and Explorance reveals 78% of employees are eager to take company surveys. Surveys were the favoured feedback option, with 38% preferring surveys, ahead of communicating directly with managers or HR. Importantly, 98% of staff say they provide honest feedback in employee surveys.
Overall, if you are looking to improve engagement in your organisation, engagement surveys are one of the best and most effective ways to begin measuring, tracking and actioning change.
“[With employee engagement surveys] our retention rates have increased and as an organisation we have been able to grow stronger in our culture as well as our staff numbers.” Erika Hewitt, Human Resources Manager at Windgap
Xref Engage is proud to offer engagement surveys across the entire talent lifecycle. Our surveys help organisations hire, retain, and remember their employees.
With Xref Engage, you can conduct:
Here’s how Xref Engage surveys can ultimately drive change for your organisation:
All Xref Engage surveys can be customised to suit your organisational needs. If there’s a specific type of survey you’d like to conduct that isn’t listed here, contact our friendly team to discuss your options.
At the heart of Xref Engage is a group of highly experienced professionals, including HR experts and workplace psychologists, who understand the challenge of improving culture, leadership and service quality.
Our research and decades of experience giving employees a voice enable us to tailor data-driven surveys that drive real change.
From our foundation as Voice Project at Macquarie University, we have committed to building a people-first platform that delivers deep, actionable insights at every stage of your talent journey.
Customers who choose Xref Engage enjoy four significant advantages:
In short, with Xref Engage, you can be assured that your survey will be created according to industry standards and tailored to suit your organisational needs.
Xref Engage surveys are available globally on any device, allowing employees worldwide to provide feedback quickly and efficiently.
Once all feedback is in, it’s time to assess the data. That’s where our Data Studio comes into play.
You can also look at survey feedback on a question level to get more granular insights and use filters to drill down into different demographics areas such as department, tenure length and more.
With industry benchmarking, the Xref Engage benchmarking tool allows you to compare and contrast your survey results with those of competitors and others in your industry.
The benchmarking functionality allows you to understand where your organisation stands out and opportunities for improvement.
We provide historical comparisons over time to track impact and celebrate improvements.
The data insights unique to Xref Engage allow you to assess your organisation's performance and help you improve processes, innovation and customer satisfaction while reducing attrition.
When conducting repeat surveys to check and recheck the evolution of your employee engagement over time, Xref Engage can deploy an employee Net Promoter Score (eNPS). The eNPS score is used to understand how likely your people will be to recommend your organisation as a place to work to friends, family or peers.
Xref Engage customers
Xref Engage customers range from large corporations to not-for-profits and educational institutions. We’re proud to help all kinds of organisations better understand their people and create improvements.
Interested in learning how our customers use Xref Engage? Here are four highly successful use cases:
You can also read what customers have to say about Xref Engage on our G2 profile.
We’re passionate about helping our customers run the high-performing surveys that drive organisational change. That’s why we also run the Xref Engage Awards.
Our Change Champion Award recognises organisations who achieve exceptional improvements in work practices and employee engagement over time.
The Best Workplace Award recognises organisations that have achieved exceptional levels of employee engagement and satisfaction as well as demonstrating effective management practices.
View past and present winners for both awards here.
When you choose Xref Engage, you join a community of experts dedicated to your success. Xref Engage customers around the world are committed to giving their people a voice and improving employee engagement with the goal of higher retention and performance.
By choosing Xref Engage, you can access a simple-to-use yet technologically advanced platform offering a suite of expert-designed surveys. All our customers enjoy advice from our in-house experts, who range from HR professionals to workplace psychologists. With Xref Engage, you can ensure your surveys are high-performing and that the data gathered can be used to drive real organisational change.
Keen to learn how engagement surveys can benefit your organisation? Get in touch with our friendly team today.