Help employees thrive with learning programs 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, get feedback on the content, presenter effectiveness, and more.

• 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 programs 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, make sure 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 nonprofit.”

• Organizational Culture Survey Template

• Employee Engagement Survey Template

• Culture Pulse Survey Template

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 transitioning into management roles, with a focus on creating a team vision and modeling 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 personalization features.

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

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

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