Employee engagement softwares, as the search is often typed, bundle three jobs: delivering the questionnaire, working the results and tracking what happens next. Only the first needs software, and the simplest form tool you already own does it. The other two are records, and a record is only useful where the person who has to act will read it. This guide takes the three jobs apart and points at the free worksheets that keep the two that matter most on the org plan.
Delivery, the job software does
Getting the questionnaire to everyone and back, with reminders, on a phone for people without a desk. Any survey or form tool does it; what matters is that it reports counts per team, because the team is the unit anyone can act on. Nothing about delivery needs to own the programme's memory.
Results, the job a worksheet does better
Promoters, passives and detractors counted per team, the eNPS worked with the count behind each figure, the last cycle beside this one. The eNPS worksheet on this site does that on the page from the counts you enter, and shows the arithmetic, which a dashboard usually hides. The Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey publishes agency-level results so they can be checked; a company programme should be able to do the same.
Actions, the job software forgets
One action per team with an owner and a date, kept beside the results and reopened before the next survey so the team sees what was done. This is the record that makes the survey credible and the one engagement softwares keep worst. On Orgplanly Pro it lives on the org plan with the results and the plan.
Questions people ask about employee engagement softwares
Do I need employee engagement software at all?
For delivery, something simple. For results and actions, the worksheets and the record here.
How is Orgplanly different from engagement software?
It keeps the plan, results and actions as records on the org plan and leaves delivery to your form tool.
Is it free to start?
Yes. The worksheets are free; Pro keeps the records.