Once your lifecycle surveys are up and running, the next step is turning responses into insights. Lifecycle Surveys play a crucial role in capturing feedback before, between, and after major initiatives like engagement surveys and performance reviews. By analyzing trends across key employee milestonesâsuch as onboarding, anniversaries, or exitsâyou can identify whatâs working, spot areas for improvement, and take timely, strategic action to enhance the employee experience.
In this article, you will learn...
Access and availability
âïž Required access to the Lifecycle Surveys Dashboard.
đ„ This article is relevant to Account admins and Managers.
đŠ This feature is available in the Total Platform, Legacy Perform, and Engage pricing packages.
Note
This article is applicable to Account admins and managers if managers were granted visibility into their direct reports' responses during the lifecycle survey setup.
How to Analyze Lifecycle Survey Results đ©âđ»
- Click Surveys in 15Five's main, left-hand navigation, then select Lifecycle.
- Scroll to the "Surveys" section and click the name of the survey you want to view. Alternatively, click the ellipsis (âŻ) to the right of the survey name and select "View results" to open the results overview.
- Each lifecycle survey includes two main reporting views designed to help you explore data: the Overview report and the All Results report.
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The Overview report offers a participant-level summary of survey status (complete, incomplete, or expired), individual responses, and response perspective (employee or manager).
Use the "People" filter to filter your view by a specific person or group.
To see a participant's responses, click "View results" next to their name. A drawer containing their answers will appear on the right-hand side of your screen. - Switch to the All Results report to see a breakdown of how all participants responded to each survey question.
Use the filters at the top of the page to view results for specific groups, attributes, or outcomes. Learn more about filtering options â
You can also use the "Compare by" filter in the top, right-hand corner of the report to compare responses across time (monthly, quarterly, yearly).
Click on an answer bucket within a statement's reporting to see who gave that response.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) â
By default, only account admins have access to Lifecycle survey results.
However, you can use the "Manager visibility into team results" setting when creating the survey to grant managers visibility into surveys submitted by their direct reports. This added flexibility supports a range of privacy preferences and organizational needs.
Many HR leaders prefer to keep survey responses limited to the HR teamâespecially for sensitive moments like onboarding or exitâto help ensure employees feel safe providing candid feedback.
No. Account admins can see who completed the survey, who didnât, and view individual responses.
If the âManager visibility into team resultsâ setting is enabled for the survey, managers will also have access to responses from their direct reports.
Participants are informed during the survey that their responses will be visible to the HR team and, if applicable, to their manager.
To view a managerâs direct report responses, search for the managerâs name in the survey results view. Youâll see a list of surveys theyâve been involved inâeither as the subject (i.e., feedback about them) or as a participant (i.e., feedback they submitted).
In the results list, refer to the "Perspective" column:
- Manager indicates the manager is the subject of the feedback.
- Employee indicates the manager was the one providing feedback.
For example: Filtering by âVictoriaâ will show survey responses where âManagerâ perspective responses come from Victoriaâs team, and âEmployeeâ responses are those Victoria submitted herself.