Giving and receiving feedback is an essential ingredient for the long-term success of any organization—or any relationship, for that matter. Companies are built on professional relationships, and the strongest relationships are built on effective communication.
Our employee feedback survey template helps you tune in to what really matters to your team. Use it to uncover insights, spark ideas, and shape a culture where people feel heard. New to employee feedback or not sure how to make sense of the results? No worries—we’ve got a guide to walk you through it.
With this survey, you'll:
Get a sense check on how employees are feeling
Spot what’s working well for your employees
Learn what you need to do to make work better
Help your managers improve
What is employee feedback? And why is it important?
Employee feedback is any information exchanged by employees (formally or informally) regarding their performance, skills, or ability to work within a team. Both supervisors and peers may deliver feedback, and when done tactfully, the process can create a stronger, more harmonious workplace.
Positive and negative feedback are important because they help break bad habits, reinforce positive behavior, and enable teams to work more effectively toward their goals.
Most companies use a short questionnaire with this template, which every employee fills out regularly (weekly or bi-weekly), and their team lead reviews.
To replicate these questions, use Contentsquare’s free employee feedback survey template (seen in the image below). It comes packed with all the questions you need. What’s more, the template is fully customizable, meaning you can change the question order, add your questions, and tweak the design.
Easily locate the employee feedback survey template in Contentsquare’s template gallery
💡Pro tip: Contentsquare’s Surveys tool lets you fully customize your surveys to make them your own. You can:
Tweak each question in the template or add your own
Change the color scheme (more colors available on our Growth plan)
Pick between full-screen, pop-up, or external link surveys
3 questions you’ll answer with an employee feedback survey
1. How are employees feeling, week by week?
If you send out this employee feedback survey to your staff on a weekly basis, you’ll be able to determine how mood changes over time. This helps you spot any issues before they develop and get a general sense check on how your staff feel.
2. What would make the workplace better?
Many of us will have worked at a company where some of the ideas to improve work just haven’t resonated. All too often, ideas that sound great in the boardroom just don’t align with what employees really want. To better understand your workforce, you should ask employees for their ideas to make the workplace better with this survey template.
3. How can our managers improve?
Providing valuable feedback to managers is tough. It’s rare that someone will sit in on a one on one with a direct report to let the manager know how they're performing. And often it’s difficult to ask a direct report for that feedback. With this survey template, employees are asked what their manager should start, stop, and continue. This offers valuable feedback to managers.
💡 Pro tip: not sure what to ask? Get some help from our built-in AI feature to generate questions based on your survey goal.
Creating surveys with Contentsquare just got even easier thanks to our powerful built-in AI capabilities
How to set up an employee feedback survey in seconds
Getting started with Contentsquare’s employee feedback survey is fast and easy.
Navigate to Surveys in Contentsquare from the left-hand menu
Click ‘New Survey’ in the upper-right corner
Choose to start from scratch, use one of 40+ templates, like the employee feedback template, or use AI to generate a survey, then customize it as needed
Once set up, your survey is ready to send to your employees so you can start gathering valuable insights.