Like most Business Leaders, you are probably constantly looking for ways to improve one thing or another to remain competitive.  It might be internal initiatives to improve things for team members.  Or it might be tracking progress with improvements to products and services.

In these scenarios, it is just as important to be able to measure any progress that is being made to understand whether initiatives are having an impact.

For this, you can use Tandem Surveys.  Here’s how to do it.

Create a few simple scale questions

Tandem has a number of question types available, the best one to use for measurement is a scale question.  An example is 1-5, where one is the negative answer and 5 is the positive answer.  ‘How satisfied are you with life at work’?  Extremely Dissatisfied to Extremely Satisfied would be a common scale.

Our suggestion is to create a few simple scale questions, and to also include a text question in order to gain context about the answer.  For example, you might simply ask ‘Why did you give that answer’ and offer a text box for someone to give further information.

Ask, and repeat

After you have received the first set of answers to your questions, you will know your baseline to work from.  The answers to this first survey will be meaningful, but it will be difficult to know how meaningful because there will (usually) be no prior data to work from.

Here is where Tandem becomes super-powerful.  A few months later, you can run exactly the same survey questions and the answers can be quickly compared against each other on the same dashboard.  Tandem comes with this ‘Comparisons’ feature with all paid plans.

Instantly on the dashboard, you can see how much progress has been made.  Over the course of 12 months, you will have an excellent indication about your progress.

It is that simple.

If you need help planning the measurement of progress for your initiatives, we are here to help.  Simply contact our support team to get started.