Constructive employees discussing in front of the company building

How we established a measurable feedback culture at a large corporation

Let me start with a personal story. When I took up a new job at a large corporation a few years ago, I quickly noticed that some of my new colleagues saw feedback as a threat. This surprised me …
Employee reflection on work

What I learned about feedback, employee engagement and leadership by following the 2020 election on TV

At Creaholic, we believe that if you have a growth mindset you can learn something valuable from any experience. I was supposed to write a text for this blog last week and got completely sidetracked …
Employees who carry their company

How do you create an employee survey that works?

What is the goal of employee surveys? It is to find out what is going well and where there are obstacles in the daily (cooperative) work. If you remove these, everyone in the company can do a good …
Employees with a big key

How Pulse enabled our customers and us to adapt to radical change during the Coronavirus lockdown

The Coronavirus lockdown made it considerably more difficult to do our jobs. With many people working from home, keeping in touch and collaborating with coworkers was a challenge. Our survey tool …
A normal employee and an anonymous employee give feedback

Do employees give more critical feedback if the survey is anonymous?

The following argument is often made: if the survey is not anonymous, employees won’t dare tell the truth and very important information is lost. Is this true? When we developed Pulse, we wanted to …
4 employees thinking about the elephant in the room

How transparent feedback turns “elephants in the room” into opportunities for improvement

How do you make the “elephants in the room” visible to everyone? Swisscom answered this question with Pulse and brought organizational innovation back to grassroots. The most important lesson …
3 employees are standing on the globe and one employee is flying with a rocket.

Employee surveys can be radically reinvented, too

Today is National Inventor's Day in the USA. Because it is still a while until the local Inventors' Day on November 9th, we take the opportunity to tell you about an invention from Switzerland.
Employees defining OKRs together based on Pulse results

With Pulse Feedback to concrete results: How localsearch combines employee feedback and OKRs

The classic, anonymous annual employee survey with many questions and quantitative data no longer corresponded to the dynamic, innovative culture of localsearch. So the HR managers set out in search …
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New features 2019

How's the work with the Pulse results going? Could you already implement concrete improvement measures? With our new features this has just become even easier: Now you get the most important results …
Employees with gifts

Why we got rid of Santa

Who doesn’t know the good old employee survey? Many questions, a lot of effort, few noticeable improvements. At my former employer, a company with 20,000 employees, we used precisely this kind of …
Employee in front of a newspaper

New features 2018: Learning from feedback just got much easier

Feedback makes us better and we have received a lot since we started with Pulse. In the last months we have been very busy using your feedback to make Pulse easier and more powerful. Here is a quick …