5 Questions to Ask Yourself Before You Start Your Survey Projects

Prepare your survey project by answering five key questions before you begin. This creates a clear foundation for everything that follows.

Define your survey project before you begin

Preparation is key to building a strong survey project that ultimately gets the results you want.

This video examines five questions you and your team should answer before starting a survey project: what the project is meant to achieve, which questions the survey should answer, what resources are available, how results will be communicated, and how the organization will follow up on the results.

Answering these questions early helps you build a stronger project foundation and improves the quality and usefulness of the final results.
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Chapters
00:00 Introduction
00:44 What Is the Survey Project’s Purpose?
02:23 What Questions Should the Survey Answer?
03:16 What Resources Do You Have Available?
04:33 How Do You Communicate the Survey Results?
05:07 How Do You Follow Up on the Survey Results?

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What you'll learn

Define the purpose of your survey project
Identify the questions your survey needs to answer
Assess the resources available to support the project
Plan how survey results will be communicated
Decide how the organization will follow up on the results

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