My workplace does one of those anonymous surveys each year.
Due to several moments of frustration (poor communication, extra work/hours, misplaced actions with one team causing my team to come behind and clean things up,etc.) over the past couple of months I have become a little less patient with my manager when it comes to his decision-making and general ability to “read the room” when it comes to his team’s morale and well-being. This week things really piled on by my manager making me look bad to my stakeholders because of important information he forgot to pass along to me.
This week my company also released their large, enterprise-wide survey, that is supposedly anonymous. Well in my moment of frustration I decided to take the survey and now I am wondering if I was too tough in my scoring.
There are many questions and it basically has to answer each with 1 through 5. One being this really isn’t going well and 5 being things are going great. With many of the questions it is general about the company and my role and so on and so forth. For those questions I answered honestly but mostly 4 and 5s (because I really do like the company I work for).
But when I got to any questions about my management I really dove down into the 1 though 3s. Now, I think no matter the frustration this week I would have been a little lower scoring in this section but maybe without any 1s given and not as many 2s (maybe a couple of 2s and more 3s).
Am I overthinking this now In hindsight that maybe I was too reactive and this could cause swirl and friction that comes back to me?
To note, the survey is supposedly anonymous and I did not leave any comments – strictly scores.
Do you think I should try to clawback the survey back (not sure this is even possible because it is done by a 3rd party and we are a multiple thousands people company) and “freshen it up” or just hope it really is anonymous and the lower scores will help improve things?
Thanks for any advice.