some say there are no stupid questions that may be true but when it comes to your employee engagement survey you'll need to be strategic about the questions you include every engagement survey needs to have an engagement index this index is a way to measure engagement with a few core questions while your survey may include many more questions the index gives you an idea of how engaged your employees are based on our research we found five questions that make an effective index one I am proud to work for blanks two I would recommend blank as a great place to work three I rarely think about looking for a job at another company four I see myself still working at blank in two years time in five blank motivates me to go beyond what I would in a similar role elsewhere after the engagement index ask questions around these four main factors we found to relate to engagement leadership enablement alignment and development while you can measure index and lead questions on a numerical scale you'll need some open-ended questions to get qualitative data from your survey here's a useful open-ended question that helps reveal crucial insights that your other questions may have missed is there something else you think we should have asked you in this survey for a really effective engagement survey be sure to get all 20 questions and their benchmarks by following the link in the description [Music] you [Music]