Describe your team and what you need to learn. Makeform builds a focused team performance survey about collaboration, delivery, clarity, and blockers.
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Sample prompts for the builder
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Audience
Members of one cross-functional team
Format
Anonymous five-minute pulse survey
Prompt size
329 chars
Example survey structure
Anonymous five-minute pulse survey
How clear are our priorities?
How effectively do we collaborate?
What is our biggest blocker?
What should we keep doing?
Suggested routing tags
Collaboration
Blockers
Action needed
Pair scores with optional follow-ups. A concrete example helps the manager decide what to change.
Step 1
Define
team, period, goals, and decisions
Step 2
Measure
clarity, collaboration, delivery, and blockers
Step 3
Interpret
patterns, examples, and priority themes
Step 4
Act
owner, experiment, and follow-up date
Useful team signals
Separate outcomes from the working conditions behind them to see what the team can improve.
Repeat an anchored 1–5 scale to track clarity, collaboration, and delivery sentiment.
Follow low ratings with an optional example that the team can examine.
Ask who can influence each obstacle and route recurring dependencies for review.
Choose the right survey moment
Adapt the timeframe and prompts for a pulse, project, remote-work check, or manager transition.
Track stable themes while making room for a current priority.
Connect planning, handoffs, decisions, and delivery to one milestone.
Examine context, asynchronous work, inclusion, and meeting load.
Learn what works and which obstacle a new manager should tackle first.
Survey workflow
Build around a decision, collect input, and close the loop with an owned change.
Choose a process change, retrospective, or baseline so each question has a purpose.
Remove topics you cannot act on, define scale endpoints, and add branching follow-ups.
Explain anonymity, access to comments, the deadline, and when themes will be discussed.
Summarize patterns, select changes, assign owners, and schedule the next pulse.
Pick the feedback method
Team performance surveys reveal shared patterns. Other formats are better when the issue belongs to one person or needs immediate discussion.
Field guide
Use six focused sections to connect team sentiment with observable working practices and changes a manager can influence.
Direction
Ask whether priorities are understandable, stable enough to execute, and connected to each person's work. Separate role clarity from confidence in the plan.
Teamwork
Measure how people exchange context, ask for help, disagree, and follow through. Keep questions about team practices rather than personality judgments.
Execution
Explore whether the team can make timely decisions and complete valuable work without avoidable churn. Ask about a defined recent period.
Capacity
Distinguish a temporary busy period from a persistent capacity problem. Look for interruptions, conflicting priorities, and uneven workload distribution.
Friction
Give respondents room to identify tools, approvals, missing information, or cross-team dependencies that repeatedly slow progress.
Next step
End with what should continue and one realistic change to test. This balances problem discovery with practices the team should preserve.
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Open toolFAQ
Practical answers for managers designing a useful, credible team survey.
It collects members' views on goal clarity, ownership, collaboration, workload, decisions, delivery, and blockers. It reveals team patterns rather than replacing individual performance reviews.
Rate priorities, roles, trust, handoffs, decisions, workload, and delivery confidence. Ask about the biggest blocker, a practice to keep, and one change to test. Include only topics the team can influence.
Anonymity can help people raise sensitive patterns. If identity is optional, say so clearly and explain who can access comments and how themes will be shared.
For a recurring pulse, use a few consistent measures plus two or three open prompts. A retrospective can be longer, but remove questions that will not inform a decision.
Choose a cadence that leaves time to act. Quarterly suits many stable teams; milestone surveys fit projects. Acknowledge prior feedback and report next steps before surveying again.
Look for themes across questions and comments, differences between related topics, and movement across repeated rounds. Treat small groups cautiously because one answer can shift an average. Scores start a conversation; examples and follow-up discussion explain what is happening.
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Share themes without exposing individuals and explain what will change. Select one or two actions, assign an owner and review date, then assess whether the experiment helped.
Turn team input into a focused next step.
