How to use polls

Last updated: 2021-09-06
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Voting will help with team communication

You can use voting to communicate within your team, within your company for various situations where you need feedback, opinions, or attitudes of employees or colleagues. Voting can be used by HR for communication with employees, managerial feedback, or for planning activities across the company, in projects, or work teams. Examples of the use of voting are: 

  • Feedback on company benefits
  • Voting on the timing of a company event
  • Managerial feedback
  • Feedback on a meeting or presentation
  • Planning priorities
  • Feedback on product, logo, marketing materials
  • Feedback after employee onboarding
  • And much more

How voting works

Any user can create a vote. The person who creates the poll becomes the author and sender of the poll - he/she creates the questions, defines the poll properties, and enters the participants. After submitting the vote, they will receive a notification in their inbox about the voting form. 

  • Setting up the poll is very simple; the author sets it up
  • He/she enters the question
  • Specifies a selection of answers, which the participants tick 
  • He/she specifies if he/she is also among the voters
  • Selects if the voters can select one or more answers
  • Selects whether the vote is secret or public - that is, whether the voters can see each other's answers

How to set up voting

You set up each poll the way you need it. You fill in the question, select the colleagues who should vote, and fill in the possible answer options. You can also choose whether you want to participate in the vote or whether voters can select only one option or select multiple options. Finally, you can hide your colleagues' answers.

It is also a good idea to choose a deadline by which colleagues must respond to the poll. It is also possible to add an attachment to the poll, so you have everything in one place.

You can start a poll from anywhere using the plus menu in the top left corner.

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