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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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13 questions · ~7 min
Q01
Message

Hi! This is a quick, honest check-in on how sales leadership is handling the COVID-19 disruption for our revenue team. It takes about 5 minutes and your answers help leadership adjust in real time.

Q02
Multiple ChoiceRequired

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
Q03
Opinion ScaleRequired

How clear are you on your current sales priorities given the pandemic's impact on the business?

Scale: 17
Min:Not clear at allMax:Extremely clear
Q04
MatrixRequired

How much do you agree with each statement about sales leadership's response to the pandemic?

4 rows × 5 columns
  • 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
Columns: Strongly disagree · Disagree · Neutral · Agree · Strongly agree
Q05
Rating ScaleRequired

How would you rate leadership's transparency about the pandemic's impact on revenue and the business?

Range: 15
Min:Very poorMax:Excellent
Q06
Opinion ScaleRequired

How confident are you that you can hit your current (possibly revised) revenue target this quarter?

Scale: 010
Min:Not confident at allMax:Extremely confident
Q07
Multiple Choice

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
Q08
Point Allocation

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
Allocate 100 points
Q09
AI Interview

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.

Q10
Long Text

What's one thing sales leadership could do differently in the next 30 days to help you sell more effectively?

Q11
Multiple Choice

What is your role on the sales team?

  • Account Executive
  • Sales Development / Prospecting
  • Account Manager / Customer Success
  • Sales Manager or Leader
  • Other
Q12
Multiple Choice

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
Q13
Message

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

    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

  • 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 Template

A 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 template

A 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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