15Five questions are fully customizable and can be asked of your whole company, a group, or specific individuals/employees. If you need some inspiration on questions, you can use our Question Bank to easily ask a variety of questions designed to increase your performance, engagement, and culture. Otherwise, here are some details regarding creating questions, types of questions that are available, frequencies for questions, and more.
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Create a new 15Five question
1. Click on 'Settings' from the left navigation.
2. Then click on '15Five questions' to expand the question settings.
3. Last, click on 'Manage questions'.
4. Click on the 'Create a new question' button.
5. You can choose from three options: Company-wide, Group, or Person.
- Company-wide: These questions are available to all users. Only account admins can ask company-wide questions.
- Group: These questions are just for specific groups. Account admins, reviewers, and group admins can ask group questions.
- Person: These questions are just for specific people. Account admins and reviewers can ask group questions.
6. Select a question type. Types Yes/No, Numerical, and Rating scale are all considered metric questions and allow you to pull Trend/Poll reports after answers have been submitted. Types Text and Question bank can be reported on in the Questions dashboard after answers have been submitted. To pull a question from the Question bank, select that option and a list of all available questions will appear.
- Text: These are regular plain text questions with no formatting.
- *Yes/No: These questions are for simple Yes/No responses.
- *Numerical: Metric questions are quantitative questions
- *Rating scale: Rating scale questions allow you to ask questions where the answer format is a range of options.
- Question bank: We provide a list of questions for you to ask your team so you can always keep your questions fresh.
Account admins & reviewers can see data from company-wide metric questions. Reviewers will be able to see data from their team reports and anyone they have access to. There are no private answers for metric based questions.
*Metric questions (Yes/No, Numerical, Rating scale) are only available on 15Five Plus and Enterprise. With 15Five Plus and Enterprise Plans you can ask, measure, and manage just about anything you can think of for your team.
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7. Ask your question in the 'Question' field. This field is free text and allows you to input questions in another language! Hints, notes, directions, URLs, etc can be listed here as well.
8. Choose your frequency for the question; 'How often is the question asked?'.
- If you select Show in every 15Five, the question will appear on everyone's 15Five check-ins for every reporting period, regardless of their frequency.
- If you select This is a one-time question, the question will be added to all currently open 15Five reports. If someone has already submitted their current 15Five check-in, the question will appear on their next 15Five check-in and then disappear.
- If you select Schedule this question, additional options will expand asking you how often you want the question to appear. Options include Weekly, Bi-weekly, Monthly, and Quarterly.
- Keep in mind your reporters' frequencies when you schedule questions. If everyone has different frequencies, it may be difficult to schedule questions on a bi-weekly or quarterly cadence for example.
9. You can choose to make the question optional or even post it to Slack.
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10. Click 'Add new question'.
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Setting up group questions
1. Click on 'Settings' from the left navigation.
2. Then click on '15Five questions' to expand the question settings.
3. Last, click on 'Manage questions'.
4. Click on the 'Create a new question' button.
Question Queues also have frequencies. Click on the gear to the right of your Question queue section to see current settings and update. For more information on Question Queues, check out this article.
Want to analyze your team's answer to a question? Run a report from the Questions dashboard.