Your company’s success depends largely on your employees. Assess their skills, knowledge and competencies; support productive, dynamic communication within teams; or give your workforce a refreshing change of pace.
When it comes to online quizzes, many people think of an entertaining diversion—a question-and-answer game that tests specialist knowledge online. On the following pages, we show that an online employee quiz can be much more: a powerful business tool that is both effective to run and easy to create.
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The term: what is an employee quiz?
An online employee quiz lets you create distinctive, tailored online surveys in a playful way—for example by incorporating game elements, social features and learning principles.
An online quiz is essentially an online test or assessment, distinguished by its shorter format and fewer questions. While an exam assesses each individual’s level of knowledge, a quiz is more about identifying a winner. Entertainment is another important distinction: the question type, how questions are presented and the analysis are less formal. Gamification takes centre stage.
Gamification is the use of game-like elements in a non-game context. It can increase motivation, learning outcomes and return on investment (ROI).
Online quizzes are increasingly used in human resources (HR), for example to test employees’ knowledge of company policies. With suitable design, an online quiz can also assess and help develop employees’ cognitive abilities.
Features and purpose of an employee quiz
Prize draws and quizzes have a magnetic appeal for employees. Companies and publishers can use that appeal to provide a welcome change from the everyday working day.
Features of an employee quiz:
- An indirect communication channel between employees and management
- A welcome change within everyday work routines
- A staff-training tool
- Suitable for seasonal use (Christmas, Easter, anniversaries, …)
What an employee quiz can achieve:
- Increase employee motivation
- Refresh employees’ general knowledge
- Assess employees’ level of education and knowledge
Turn a knowledge quiz into an online quiz challenge. Invite your employees to take part, perhaps with a light-hearted challenge: “Have you always wanted to show that you are smarter than the Marketing department? Prove it by taking our online knowledge quiz now!”
Reasons and relevance: why run an employee quiz online?
Reasons to run an online quiz for your employees
- A welcome change of pace
- Increased employee motivation
- A training measure with a fun element
- Assessment of current knowledge levels
- Encouragement of direct internal communication, for example during breaks
- A creative process for the workforce through creative breaks, giving the mind time to recover and restore its capacity to create
Why run an online quiz?
Let us look at the reasons for using an online employee quiz and the advantages it offers over a traditional paper-based quiz. Paper quizzes often create significant challenges. An online employee quiz, by contrast, makes the following possible:
- Choose individual questions: No matter how often you run the quiz, answers can be displayed in a completely new random order each time. This option can be enabled or disabled in the question settings.
- Save time: Integrate media such as videos, images, graphics and audio, with automatic analysis.
- Dynamic feedback: Show each participant how many points they can achieve and whether an answer is right or wrong.
- Live analysis: Automatically generate completed charts for each question.
- Access real-time statistics: With LamaPoll, you can view and download statistics and results easily.
The relevance of an employee quiz
Your employees can contribute valuable ideas and support the research and development of your business strategy quickly and directly. Take on board the feedback and ideas from employees, and use the ideas with the strongest support to implement relevant business objectives.
Changes can be identified immediately. This helps you address needs within the company and among employees effectively.
Advantages and disadvantages of an employee quiz
The advantages
- Greater interest in the company
- More interaction between colleagues
- Increased motivation at work
- Greater knowledge
- Stronger internal engagement
- Wider reach
- Greater brand affinity
- Strong viral effects
- Easy to implement
- Cost-effective, quick, multilingual and suitable for many participants
The disadvantage
- Disadvantages arise mainly when the entertainment value declines, for example with more serious knowledge assessments or quizzes that are too long.
- An online quiz can be manipulated easily if respondents look up the correct answers while taking it. Depending on the quiz’s purpose, this need not be a concern; it can even be a desirable side effect—employees study the material independently.
- Questions may not always be answered entirely honestly. Reasons may include privacy concerns or fear of negative judgement based on prejudice. Make it clear in advance that the quiz is conducted anonymously.
With LamaPoll’s survey tool, you can of course also create and run anonymous online surveys.
Find all the details you need to create an online questionnaire here
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Why run an employee quiz with LamaPoll?
With LamaPoll, you can create a sophisticated, engaging online quiz with your own branding regularly and with minimal effort.
An employee quiz makes it easy to view and analyse feedback, and to reach your target audience flexibly on smartphones, iPads and computers. LamaPoll gives you all the tools you need to create and run your own online quiz quickly, attractively and affordably—without effort or programming knowledge. Naturally secure, privacy-compliant and hosted in Germany.
For example, you can:
- Create a dynamic quiz,
- Adapt the design freely to your requirements,
- Copy it when needed and repeat it regularly with little effort,
- Award points for correct answers,
- Display live results or configure individual analysis.
Customer feedback
What B2B customers say about LamaPoll
Cooperation, clarification of content, questions of implementation, finding solutions and, above all, the immediate responses to enquiries, whether by email or by phone: at LamaPoll I have experienced an absolutely outstanding example of service-mindedness. The implementation is intuitive and simple. I would recommend LamaPoll to any of my colleagues.
