A ready-to-use conversational survey
Find skill gaps before you plan training. Staff rate their confidence on key skills, describe where they got stuck, and pick the formats and topics that would help.
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What a respondent is asked, in order.
Hi! We're planning training for the months ahead and want it to fit the work you really do. It takes about five minutes.
Which team or department are you in?
How long have you been in your current role?
Which tasks take up most of your working week?
How confident are you in each of these areas?
Describe a recent moment at work when more training or support would have helped.
Which topics would help you most in the next six months? Pick up to three.
How do you prefer to learn? Put your favourite first.
How much time could you realistically give to training each month?
Is there anything you know well enough to teach colleagues?
What could you teach, and to whom?
Who should we contact about it?
Endings
Thanks, this shapes the training plan
Thank you, we may take you up on that
Where each answer leads. Every route here is editable once the form is yours.
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Yes / No
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A little guidance
Make the most of your next ask.
Count the "I need training" and "Some gaps" answers in the confidence grid for each team to find the biggest shared gaps. Read the stuck moments to understand what the gap looks like in practice, which helps a trainer pitch the content right. Match topics to the most popular formats and the time people can give, and use the people who said they could teach as in-house trainers or mentors before paying for outside courses.
A survey that finds the gaps between the skills people have and the skills their work needs, so you plan training around real needs rather than guesses.
Questions about current tasks, confidence in key skills, recent situations where people got stuck, the topics they want and how they prefer to learn.
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