Reasons to Survey
There is a simple reason why great companies like Hewlett-Packard, AT&T Wireless, Tektronix, SAS, Microsoft, Autotask, ConnectWise and thousands of other organizations participate in best workplaces surveys:
Confidential surveying of your employees is crucial to becoming and continuing to be the best company you can be.
Compare your organization to your peers, more fully engage your employees, and gain competitive branding as a Best Tech Workplace. Here is a summary of the reasons why your company should participate:
Culture
Diagnose and improve the health of your organization's culture Honor staff by asking for their confidential feedback Establish benchmarks to encourage growth year-to-year Claim the vision: Your company is one of the best workplaces for people to pursue a career and clients to meet their needs
People
Attract more certified, top performers for open positions Inrease employee productivity Improve employee retention Resolve unrealized weaknesses in how employees are being managed
Marketing
Motivate higher customer satisfaction. Compare your company to your peers in the industry. Gain from positive public perception of being a certified Best Tech Workplace. Reinforce trust that employees, clients and vendors have with your organization
Five reasons why you need to participate this year:
1. Industry Exclusive: This survey is specifically for technology solution providers so you are benchmarking your company against your peers.
2. Guru Driven: The consultant who designed our survey, Al Lopus, has done comprehensive workplace surveys since 2002 that now include more than 400 organizations representing over 80,000 full time employees. He also does a similar survey in Canada since 2004.
Prior to this Al led Watson Wyatt's Northwest offices, working with Nike, Starbucks, AT&T Wireless, HP, Tektronix and hundreds of other companies (large and small). For several years he directed the analysis of Washington's Best Companies to Work For, and Oregon's 100 Best Companies to Work For programs. He was responsible for completing employee surveys of over 800 companies in these "Best Companies" programs.
As a result our sophisticated online survey engine provides our clients a proven, research-based diagnostic model designed to improve the ability of your organization to attract, retain and motivate top performing people.
3. Industry Expertise: David Russell, CEO of Success With People, the owner of Best Tech Workplaces, is a 29-year veteran of the computer industry. David shares responsibility for engaging companies to participate in the survey and coaching participants on their results.
David has authored five business/leadership books and worked with over 2,000 organizations during the last ten years. He is also the CEO of MANAGEtoWIN, an integrated online talent management portal to help leaders more effectively motivate people to be more productive, profitable and personally fulfilled in their careers.
4. Low Price: Similar extensive employee surveys cost $3,000 to $10,000 or more, however most technology solution providers will participate in the Best Tech Workplaces survey for only $695.
5. Be a Leader: Intentional leaders who are building winning companies do not put off for tomorrow or next year what can be done today to build a stronger organization. Would you like to have your company recognized as a superior career opportunity and vendor like Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard and IBM? Then follow their lead and survey your employees with companies similar to yours in the 2011 Best Tech Workplaces Survey.