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Meeting Preparation Habits & Readiness Survey
Measures how thoroughly people prepare for meetings they lead and attend — agendas, objectives, materials, and roles — and where preparation habits break down. An AI follow-up interview reconstructs a specific under-prepared meeting to surface the real friction behind missed prep steps, for operations teams trying to improve meeting quality.
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13 questions · ~7 min
Q02
Multiple ChoiceRequired
In a typical week, how often do you prepare an agenda before leading a meeting?
- Every time
- Most of the time
- About half the time
- Rarely
- I don't lead meetings
Q03
MatrixRequired
When you lead a meeting, how often does each of these happen beforehand?
5 rows × 5 columns
- Agenda shared with attendees in advance
- A clear objective or desired outcome is defined
- Relevant materials or data are distributed ahead of time
- Specific attendees are assigned roles (e.g., note-taker, decision-maker)
- Time is allocated per agenda topic
Columns: Never · Rarely · Sometimes · Often · Always
Q04
Multiple Choice
Which of the following do you typically complete before a meeting you're organizing? Select all that apply.
- Send agenda 24+ hours in advance
- Circulate pre-read materials
- Confirm attendee list and roles
- Set a clear decision or outcome to reach
- Time-box individual agenda items
- Follow up on action items from the last meeting
Q05
Opinion ScaleRequired
Thinking about meetings you attend but don't lead, how often do they come with a clear agenda beforehand?
Scale: 1 – 5
Min:NeverMax:Always
Q06
Ranking
Rank these preparation elements by how much they matter to a meeting actually being effective.
- Clear agenda shared in advance
- A defined objective or decision to reach
- Pre-read materials sent ahead of time
- Assigned roles for attendees
- Time allocated per topic
Drag to rank
Q07
Number
On average, how many minutes do you personally spend preparing for a meeting you're going to lead?
Q08
Multiple Choice
What's the biggest barrier that stops you from preparing more thoroughly for meetings?
- Not enough time in my schedule
- Meeting gets scheduled at short notice
- Unclear who's responsible for setting the agenda
- No standard template or checklist to follow
- I don't think prep changes the outcome much
Q09
AI Interview
Ask the respondent to describe a specific recent meeting — one they led or attended — that felt under-prepared. Probe what exactly was missing (agenda, materials, clear objective, assigned roles), what happened as a result during the meeting, and whether it required a follow-up meeting to fix. If they say prep 'doesn't matter much,' push for a concrete example that supports or challenges that view.
Q10
Rating ScaleRequired
Overall, how would you rate the quality of meetings at your organization right now?
Range: 1 – 5
Min:PoorMax:Excellent
Q11
Multiple Choice
Which best describes your role?
- Individual contributor
- People manager
- Senior leader / executive
- Prefer not to say
Q12
Multiple Choice
About how many people are on your immediate team?
- 1-5
- 6-15
- 16-50
- 50+
- Prefer not to say
Q13
Message
That's everything — thank you! Your responses will feed into a review of how we prep for and run meetings, aimed at cutting wasted time and building a better shared checklist.
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.
How it compares
We reviewed the closest templates from other survey tools. Here’s what they do well — and where this template goes further.
Why this template
- Goes beyond a static checklist by using an AI follow-up interview that asks respondents to reconstruct a specific under-prepared meeting, surfacing the real friction behind missed prep steps rather than just checking a box for 'agenda: yes/no.'
- Combines structured measurement (a matrix on what happens before meetings, a ranking of which prep elements actually matter, an opinion scale on meetings attended vs. led) with open-ended probing in one flow.
- Captures concrete behavioral data — minutes spent preparing, biggest barrier to preparing, and role/team size — so operations teams can segment where prep habits break down by role.
- Every AI follow-up question and scoring rule is transparent and auto-compiled into a report, so operations teams get a usable readiness picture without manually coding open-text answers.
SurveySparrow
Meeting Preparation Checklist Template | Checklist for Effective MeetingsThis is a straightforward checklist-style template for confirming meeting prep items (agenda, materials, objectives) rather than a diagnostic survey into why prep breaks down. It's a fielding-ready form but framed as a compliance checklist, not a research instrument with follow-up probing. Good for a quick pre-meeting gate, not for understanding root causes of poor preparation habits.
What it does well
- Purpose-built specifically around meeting preparation, so questions map directly to the topic
- Checklist format is quick to complete and easy to reuse before every meeting
- Backed by SurveySparrow's broader survey platform (logic, themes, multi-channel distribution)
Where it falls short
- No adaptive AI follow-up interview to dig into a specific meeting that went poorly — it can only capture whether checklist items were done, not why they weren't
- No per-response quality scoring or automated readiness report tying answers to behavioral patterns
- No voice interview option or guided screen-share task for deeper reconstruction of a real meeting
Jotform
Meeting Plan Checklist Form TemplateJotform's template is a general-purpose meeting planning checklist form, built for organizing logistics (agenda items, attendees, materials) rather than measuring or diagnosing preparation habits across a workforce. It's fielding-ready and easy to customize via Jotform's form builder, but it's a planning tool, not a survey instrument designed to surface friction points. There's no research methodology behind the question set.
What it does well
- Simple, familiar form-builder experience with drag-and-drop customization
- Useful as an operational planning artifact for a single meeting rather than a survey
- Broad Jotform ecosystem (integrations, templates library) for teams already on the platform
Where it falls short
- Static checklist fields only — no adaptive AI follow-up interview to reconstruct a specific under-prepared meeting
- No automated scoring of responses or generated readiness report; results would need manual review
- No mechanism to probe barriers to preparation (e.g., time, ownership, unclear objectives) beyond whatever fields are pre-built
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