Anonymous feedback helpful for these 3 meetings
In an era of transparent company cultures, anonymity isn’t always considered an asset. Still, it can facilitate trust and with it a starting point of a more open way of communicating. At Sendsteps we’re regularly involved in the setup of meetings in which anonymous feedback is considered: a must.
3 Reasons to welcome anonymous feedback
There’s multiple occassions in which it is whise to allow your audience to contribute anonymous:
1. Strategic discussions | Measure sentiment:
Decisions with a great social impact need proper change management. Imagine a reorganization in which multiple employees will lose their job. Prepare your management (the carriers of the difficult message to the rest of the team) by measuring the sentiment and to reply to anonymous feedback. This makes it easier to steer expectations during the more complicated phases that your organization can go through at times.
2. Co-creation sessions | Erase hierarchy:
In co-creation sessions you’ll need trust to share ideas. An idea can easily be judged on its feasibility or on its sender. Especially within organizations with a strong hierarchy it is more challenging to share ideas. Especially the crazy ones! By allowing anonymous input during your brainstorm, all ideas make an equal chance. No matter if the idea is coming from the CEO or from the receptionist!
3. Team coaching | Stay objective:
Foster an open conversation around themes like work satisfaction, effective collaboration or leadership by allowing anonymous feedback. Challenges between two departments can much easier be discussed if issues are clearly formulated on the presentation screen; No need to ask ‘who said this?’, rather ask ‘who want to elaborate on this comment?’. Or first ask your team to rate their job live. And then via Sendsteps. There can be a discrepancy between the live and the anonymous digital input: a great starting point for a dialogue with your team!
Your next anonymous feedback session?
Sendsteps audience response system allows you to setup an interactive PowerPoint session. Simply add multiple choice and open questions in your slideshow. Questions that address the subject that you like to discuss and on which you’d like to receive anonymous feedback. By default all the input received is anonymous [but this can be changed via your dashboard settings]. Do you dare to start the experiment?
Robert Daverschot
Robert is a professional moderator, presenter and speaker coach. Robert has years of experience at home and abroad and works for a broad range of industries. He has interviewed ministers, captains of industry and even His Holiness the Dalai Lama. In his dealings with the audience, he always uses Sendsteps. With it, an audience is able to voice their opinions, whereby attendees can cast votes or send in comments to speakers and panels on stage. As such, events turn into lively dialogues with everyone being able to speak up!