Remember to do the CES and rate Senior Leadership badly. They don't really care but they need to hear it.
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If what @2ybr+1v3ZO1R5 says is true, and everything is explained away, what’s the point of a CES survey? I can’t believe it’s simply to check a box? Are they looking for specific data points outside of how management is performing?
I have been in discussions when the ratings are low and there is always an excuse and lot of head shaking. "We are much lower this year because of the re-org, or the project is not going well, or back to office has effected moral, etc, etc". Once management has the excuse in hand and waves off the results as temporary, it is treated as one-time thing, and everyone goes back to same old same old.
im done with the CES. they do exactly the opposite of the feedback they receive
LD toxic
The best way you can scuttle the CES is not to respond. Nothing drives them crazier than a low response rate. As others have said, the CES is meaningless, so why bother?
First, these surveys aren’t anonymous, second, the negative feedback doesn’t matter, trust me, I know. The surveys aren’t used to grade upper management by design, in-fact upper management aren’t included as part of the overall survey.
Your immediate supervisor gets ALL the blame for poor results instead of acknowledging it is a systemic problem up the ladder. So bash your supervisor all you want when you really mean those above.
Curious to see if HRLT sugar coats it for functional results.
What is the current response rate? And those not responding probably dont have much good to say, which then also just gets ignored.
They don’t care.
Doesn't matter what you put on the CES. It's all a staged annual event to make you think your opinion has some merit. None - and I do mean none - of the results will reach senior management, mid-level spin-masters will trash the negative responses, and twist the rest into a glowing commendation of management and strategy. This has happened every single year since the CES started.