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Results and action planning
Viewing and taking action on your results
Your results
Understanding your results dashboards
In 2024 the VPSC produced a range of resources to help organisation understand and interpret their results. These resources can also be used by organisations in 2025.
Use this guide to understand your online dashboard results.
Watch the video guide to heatmap dashboards in Qualtrics for the People Matter survey.
Who this template is for
This template is for use by teams in public entities who have done the People matter survey.
How to use this template
Drawing on your survey results, there is an opportunity to:
identify follow-up actions that are most important to your team
link these actions to other actions in your organisation’s longer-term people strategy.
Your results suggest how your employees view your workplace and the team they work in. This includes wellbeing, alignment with the values, collaboration, learning and development and diversity and inclusion.
Survey results also help the sector develop a high-performing and engaged workforce.
When you receive your survey results, take time to review and understand the feedback.
The VPSC previously published a drivers of wellbeing report show you what drivers impact employee wellbeing most
Positive drivers include meaningful work, learning and development, psychological and physical safety climate and manager support and workload
Negative drivers include workload, psychological and physical safety climate, safe to speak up, manager support and job enrichment.
There is also a range of questions that look at how your organisation has performed against the public sector values. The public sector values guide the ethics and behaviour of everyone who works in the public sector.
There’s a strong link between workplace culture and how your employees perceive how your organisation lives the public sector values.
Sharing your results
When you’ve looked at your results, we suggest you:
communicate your high-level results to your employees
give them some time to consider what they mean.
After you have considered the results, it’s recommended you identify 3 to 5 areas to focus your attention on to create positive change.
Your organisation may identify one or two at the organisational level and your team may choose two or three at your team level.
To help you work out what these areas are, we suggest you work with your team to:
