Sales Team Leadership Check-In During COVID-19
Checks how well sales leadership is communicating, supporting, and re-setting priorities for the revenue team during the pandemic. Covers clarity of targets, resource support, and confidence in hitting revised goals, with an AI follow-up that surfaces the specific moment leadership's response helped or hurt a deal.
Sample questions
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In the last 30 days, how often has sales leadership communicated with you about the company's response to the pandemic?
- Daily
- A few times a week
- About once a week
- Rarely (once a month or less)
- Not at all
How clear are you on your current sales priorities given the pandemic's impact on the business?
How much do you agree with each statement about sales leadership's response to the pandemic?
- Leadership clearly explains changes to my targets or quota
- Leadership has given me the tools I need to sell remotely
- Leadership is transparent about how the pandemic is affecting revenue and jobs
- Leadership checks in on my wellbeing, not just my numbers
How would you rate leadership's transparency about the pandemic's impact on revenue and the business?
How confident are you that you can hit your current (possibly revised) revenue target this quarter?
Which resources would most help you sell effectively right now?
- Updated customer messaging for the pandemic
- Virtual selling / video call training
- More pricing or contract flexibility
- Better CRM or pipeline visibility
- More frequent leadership updates
- Emotional or mental health support
If leadership had 100 points of attention to spend this month, how should it be split across these areas?
- Clarifying revenue targets and quotas
- Remote selling tools and training
- Customer-facing messaging updates
- Team morale and wellbeing
- Pipeline forecasting and visibility
Ask the respondent to walk through a specific recent deal or customer conversation where the pandemic changed the outcome, and probe whether leadership's guidance, tools, or communication helped or got in the way at that moment. If they rated confidence in hitting target low, dig into what leadership could concretely change to raise it; if they said leadership rarely communicates, ask what they'd want to hear about first.
What's one thing sales leadership could do differently in the next 30 days to help you sell more effectively?
What is your role on the sales team?
- Account Executive
- Sales Development / Prospecting
- Account Manager / Customer Success
- Sales Manager or Leader
- Other
How long have you been on this sales team?
- Less than 6 months
- 6 months to 2 years
- 2 to 5 years
- More than 5 years
- Prefer not to say
Thank you for the honest feedback! Your responses are compiled into a summary for sales leadership so they can adjust communication, tools, and targets to better support the team.
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
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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
- Includes a chat-style opening message plus a closing chat message that sets expectations and confirms responses are compiled into a leadership report
- Combines structured metrics (multiple choice, opinion scale, matrix, rating, constant sum) with an AI follow-up interview that asks the respondent to walk through a specific recent deal or customer conversation
- The AI follow-up is designed to surface the exact moment leadership's communication helped or hurt a live deal, not just generic sentiment
- Captures both quantitative confidence-in-target metrics and open-ended, role- and tenure-segmented feedback (role, time on team) alongside a forced-tradeoff constant-sum question on where leadership attention should go
SurveyMonkey
Leadership Remote Work Check-In TemplateA ready-to-field static survey template covering general remote-work leadership check-in themes during COVID-19, not sales-specific. Good for broad sentiment pulses but not built to probe individual deals or revenue-target confidence. Backed by SurveyMonkey's established distribution and analytics tooling.
What it does well
- Established survey platform with broad template library and distribution tools
- Simple, quick-to-deploy check-in format
- Familiar UI likely to drive higher completion rates for general audiences
Where it falls short
- Static question set with no adaptive follow-up to probe individual answers further
- Not tailored to sales team dynamics, revenue targets, or deal-level impact
- No transparent, published methodology for how questions were selected or scored
QuestionPro
Coronavirus leadership check-in sample survey templateA sample fielding-ready template for general leadership check-ins during the coronavirus period, framed broadly rather than for sales teams specifically. Useful as a starting point for organizational leadership sentiment but lacks sales-specific metrics like target confidence or resource prioritization. Standard fixed-question format typical of QuestionPro's template library.
What it does well
- Purpose-built for coronavirus-era leadership check-ins, giving relevant question framing
- Part of a large, established survey template library
- Straightforward to adapt or duplicate for quick deployment
Where it falls short
- Fixed-question format with no adaptive AI follow-up to dig into specifics like a particular deal
- No voice AI interview or guided screen-share task options
- No automated per-response quality scoring or transparent prompt methodology published
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