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Your best people stopped answering your survey.

A targeted listening process, built on the Gallup Q12 framework, that produces a ranked list of fixes, not a score.

Honest Read replaces the annual survey with 1:1 interviews, small group sessions, and 360 manager feedback from the people who actually know what is wrong. Everyone is named, so nothing gets lost to averages, and the output is a prioritized list your team can act on this week.

Illustrative data

The process, start to finish.

11:1 interviews
2Small group sessions
3360 manager feedback
4Prioritization survey
5Close the loop
6Advisory board handoff

Illustrative data

What comes back: a ranked list, not a score.

1Fix the scheduling swap process
2Give managers real authority on minor pay exceptions
3Replace the break room equipment
4Publish the promotion criteria
5Add a second shift lead on weekends

Stack ranked by the people who do the work, in priority order.

What we've seen as operators, not a research finding

Scores jump after a party or an awards town hall the week before a survey. The score goes up. Retention doesn't.

5%+

Of employees, at minimum

5

People per listening group

0

Scores to game

1

Ranked fix list

Why anonymous surveys fail

Bottom performers write the comments, top performers stay silent, managers guess who said what, and the score becomes the goal instead of the fix.

We close the loop, always

We tell employees what we heard, how we prioritized it, and what will be done, even when the answer is nothing.

Open Line

One question sent by text, email, or voice, on a flexible cadence. A solutions-first suggestion box where the name stays with the idea.

Proven inside a Fortune 10 company

The closed-loop process behind Honest Read™ was first built and tested inside a Fortune 10 company.

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