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Post-Incident Trust & Communication Assessment

Measures incident impact, communication effectiveness, and trust recovery across stakeholder roles. Designed for internal post-incident reviews to identify systemic improvement priorities.

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29 questions · ~4 min
Q01
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Welcome! This survey asks about one specific incident from the last 90 days. Your participation is voluntary and you may stop at any time. There are no right or wrong answers — we want your honest perspective. All responses are confidential and will be reported only in aggregate to improve incident response practices. The survey takes approximately 7–9 minutes to complete.

Q02
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Please think about the single most recent incident that affected your team or work in the last 90 days. All of the following questions refer to that specific incident.

Q03
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How much impact did this incident have on customer experience or revenue?

Q04
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How would you rate the timeliness of incident communications you received?

Q05
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Compared with before the incident, how would you describe your current level of trust in the affected system or process?

Q06
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Rank the following areas by how much improvement they need for incidents like this one. Place the highest-priority area at the top.

Q07
Multiple Choice

Where are you primarily based?

Q08
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Thank you for your time. Your feedback will directly inform improvements to our incident response and recovery processes.

Q09
Multiple Choice

What was your primary stakeholder role during that incident?

Q10
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How much impact did this incident have on internal team productivity?

Q11
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How would you rate the accuracy of incident communications you received?

Q12
Multiple Choice

How long did it take until you were comfortable resuming normal operations?

Q13
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If you could change one thing to reduce business impact next time, what would it be?

Q14
Multiple Choice

What is your organization's approximate size?

Q15
Multiple Choice

How directly were you involved in managing the incident?

Q16
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How much impact did this incident have on team morale or confidence?

Q17
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How would you rate the clarity of incident communications you received?

Q18
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How would you rate the quality of post-incident follow-up (e.g., post-mortem review, action items, assigned owners)?

Q19
AI Interview

We'd like to explore your incident experience in a bit more depth. An AI moderator will ask you a couple of follow-up questions based on your earlier responses.

Q20
Multiple Choice

What is your current job level?

Q21
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What was the business severity level assigned to that incident?

Q22
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How much impact did this incident have on SLA compliance or contractual obligations?

Q23
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How would you rate the completeness of incident communications you received?

Q24
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Based on your responses in this survey, is there anything else you would like to share about this incident or the recovery process?

Q25
Multiple Choice

How long have you been with your current organization?

Q26
Multiple Choice

Approximately how long was customer-visible impact present?

Q27
Multiple Choice

Which single channel did you rely on most for incident updates?

Q28
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Approximately how many separate incidents affected your work area in the last 90 days?

Q29
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Overall, how useful were the incident communications in enabling you to do your job?

What’s included

  • AI follow-ups

    Adaptive probes on open-ended answers that pull out detail a static form would miss.

  • Attention checks

    Built-in safeguards against rushed answers and low-quality respondents.

  • AI-drafted copy

    Wording, ordering, and branching written by the AI — tuned to your research goal.

  • Auto report

    Themes, quotes, and a plain-English summary write themselves once responses come in.

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