We’ve all likely heard the famous sentiment often attributed to Warren Buffet that “feedback is a gift.” It’s true that unless you know what employees, clients, customers, stakeholders, and others in your audience think about your meetings or events, you won’t have the necessary intel to improve upon them.
That’s where asking for their opinions through a survey comes in. A meeting feedback survey is a set of questions managers, team leads, and others in company leadership use to gauge meeting effectiveness and participant engagement level. The data these surveys gather helps leadership make future meetings more useful, effective, and engaging.
The good news is, these days it’s become easier than ever to gather feedback after a meeting or event so you can understand what’s working as well as what’s not. The information you get will help you identify the most meaningful areas for improvement, but you need the right meeting feedback survey questions to get the most helpful insights.
In this article, we’ll highlight why meeting feedback is important, share 20-plus examples of meeting feedback survey questions to incorporate into your survey, and explain how to use Jotform to create a meeting feedback survey.
The benefits of getting meeting feedback
Whether you’re conducting a small internal team meeting, a cross-departmental meeting, a large company town hall or all-hands, a monthly staff meeting, or even a one-on-one meeting, asking for honest post-meeting feedback is essential if you want to learn how your employees or stakeholders feel, understand where your meetings may be falling short, and assess where you can make some improvements.
The collaboration software company Atlassian conducted a study that delivered rather sobering reviews of meetings: 45 percent of meeting attendees said the number of meetings they have to attend is overwhelming, 47 percent said nothing wastes more time at the office than meetings, 91 percent admitted to daydreaming while in meetings, and 73 percent said they worked on other tasks while in meetings.
If your intended audience doesn’t find meetings relevant or valuable, this can result in a whole slew of negative outcomes. For example, they may not actively participate in meetings, or they may avoid them altogether. Studies have shown that engaged employees are more productive, yet many consider meetings a waste of time.
These are insights you might not otherwise uncover without the help of a meeting feedback survey. By soliciting constructive feedback, you’ll be able to identify and address both strengths and shortcomings and create better, more productive meetings in the future.
20-plus meeting feedback survey questions
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Asking the right questions is imperative for collecting relevant information that will help you create meetings that employees and other stakeholders benefit from — and maybe even look forward to attending.
Consider asking a mix of closed-ended and open-ended questions for best results. Here are 24 examples:
Closed-ended questions
- How would you rate today’s meeting on a scale of 1–10?
- Did you receive a meeting agenda in advance, and did you have time to adequately prepare?
- Was the purpose of the meeting clear?
- Was the meeting agenda followed and did the meeting start and end on time?
- Do you feel like your attendance at this meeting was necessary?
- Did the meeting provide clear, actionable next steps?
- Were all attendees given equal opportunity to contribute?
- Were important topics that weren’t covered in today’s meeting noted for later discussion?
- On a scale of 1–5, with 5 being very satisfied and 1 being very dissatisfied, how satisfied were you with the format of the meeting?
- Did you receive solutions to the problems or issues this meeting was meant to address?
- On a scale of 1–10, please rate how relevant the meeting topics were to the stated purpose of the meeting.
- Did this meeting make you feel more or less excited about your role at this company?
- How often should we schedule meetings like the one we had today?
Open-ended questions
- Was this meeting a good use of your time? Please explain your answer.
- Please share your suggestions for how meetings like this one can be more effective going forward.
- How comfortable did you feel contributing your feedback and ideas during the meeting?
- Please share how you think these meetings can better support your professional development goals.
- Based on our current team goals, what specific topics or discussions would be important to address at our next meeting?
- What are your suggestions for increasing participation and engagement in future meetings?
- What meeting content resonated with you the most today, and why?
- Do you think the meeting prepared us to hit our goals? Please explain your answer.
- What is your number one takeaway from today’s meeting?
- What meeting topics would you like to see addressed in the future?
- Please share any additional comments or suggestions for future meetings not addressed above.
Tips for creating meeting feedback surveys with Jotform
It’s simple to create a survey using our meeting feedback survey questionnaire. Use this form to collect feedback from colleagues by easily customizing questions, then embedding the form on your website or sharing the questionnaire with a link.
You can also use our meeting evaluation survey. Start with the template and customize it to fit your needs with our drag-and-drop form builder. Add single choice, multiple choice, checkbox, rating, or open-ended questions, and choose the design elements — no coding required.
We also offer over 70 event feedback form templates that you can use to gather meeting feedback. Just like the survey options we mentioned, you can get started by choosing one of the free event feedback forms and fully customizing it with the help of our user-friendly form builder. Simply drag and drop elements to create the look you want.
Tips for creating an event feedback survey
Need to build an event-specific feedback survey? We’ve got you covered.
Simply use one of our event feedback form templates mentioned above. Once you’ve selected your event feedback form template, use our form builder to add questions and rating scales, update terms and conditions, include event branding and images, and more. You can even integrate your form with over 100 apps, including Airtable, Slack, monday.com, Google Drive, Dropbox, and more. Once your participants have completed the survey, you’ll be able to easily view, track, and manage survey responses using Jotform Tables.
You can also use Jotform to create anonymous feedback surveys with our free online anonymous feedback tool. This tool allows you to gather feedback from customers and employees without them revealing their identities. User responses will be kept confidential, and you’ll get notified when participants submit their surveys.
Now you know why it’s important to gather post-meeting feedback, which meeting feedback survey questions to ask, and which tools are best to use to create your survey. The next step is to get started building your survey today — and Jotform makes it easy!
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