Manager barometer

Great managers = great teams!

The secret behind great teams is great managers.

Manager barometer empowers managers to set up the continuous feedback loop with their team (direct reports) and understand the team's feelings and needs. The manager barometer report shows the overall sentiment of the team and where the biggest opportunities lie for the team's development.

Create a Manager Barometer survey

Managers with less than 3 direct reports will not be able to create surveys

1. Go to the 10xPeople tool and log-in
2. Click on the survey management icon in the sidebar (3rd icon from the top)

3. Click on the "+Create a survey" button

4. Check the audience and in case of any change, please contact the admins/super-HRs of your organization

   1. Clicking on "Contact Admin" will take you to the People page and from there you can find out the admins/super-HRs

5. Check the list of questions (if needed, there is an option to add custom question)

6. Put the survey name, start date, and end date

   1. You can change the start/end date after scheduling the survey

7. Preview the survey details and schedule

The survey will be launched on the specified start date & time and all the team members will receive an email with the survey link to share the feedback.

Locate the manager barometer survey report:

1. Click on the report icon from the sidebar (2nd icon from the top)

2. Select the survey from the dropdown in the top left of the reports page.

Manager barometer report landing page

Interpret the Manager Barometer report

Report will not be generated for the surveys with less than 3 responses (to protect anonymity)

Report of the 1st manager barometer survey will help in setting up the baseline (what is your MRX, strengths, and opportunity areas), and the subsequent surveys report will help in measuring the needle movement (areas with the progress).

MRX (Manager Recommendation Index)

The manager barometer report starts with the MRX. This gives the overall sentiment of the team. The team members would have received the manager recommendation question in the manager barometer survey. We have seen in the past that MRX >= 8.5 is a good score.

• MRX Question text in the survey: On a scale of 0-10, how likely would you be to recommend your manager to your friends?

• MRX score is calculated by averaging the responses of people who have responded to the survey

There are also other quantitative questions in the survey where an employee can share their level of agreement. For example, for the effective 1-1 conversation question ("My manager has effective 1-1 conversation with me"), employees can choose one of the options: Strongly Agree, Agree, Disagree, Strongly Disagree. Based on the employee's responses, a score would be calculated for each question.

Question scores

10xPeople categorize the scores based on the threshold below:

0 to 6 = Low (highlighted in red) 6 to 7.5 = Average (highlighted in yellow) 7.5 to 10 = Good (highlighted in green)

Legends

Qualitative Feedback

In the last, there is feedback from the qualitative question responses data. Qualitative feedback provides additional context to understand why behind the scores shown above.

Download qualitative responses

Needle movement: Scores comparison from past surveys

Once you have done multiple surveys, then the report shows the needle movement and highlights the comparison of the scores from the past survey.