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Pulses

How does the Pulse Routine work?

Pulses are our most flexible and open-ended Routine, giving your team the ability to ask your team a custom set of questions on either a recurring or one off basis.

Steps:

  1. You can choose any team/department/group to include in the Routine (as long as you are an Admin, or that person/team's manager).

  2. Input your questions into the text box, and ask anything you want of your team. There are some additional resources here detailing some popular Pulse Routine templates.

  3. If you want to ask multiple questions, you can! Easily edit the flow of the conversation in the Discussion Guide.

  4. Pulses can be recurring, one time or manual:

    • Recurring - will run a on a regular schedule.

    • One Time - will run on a one off basis.

    • Manual - will run on demand whenever the creator wants.

    • Based on a calendar event - will run based on calendar events detected via the Google Calendar integration.

  5. Set your expiration - once the pulse expires, your report will be generated.

  6. Select your response visibility - depending on the topic of your pulse, you can opt to make the responses public or anonymous.

How Pulses help your team

Pulses will rescue you from the horrors of Google Forms, clunky employee engagement platforms, or long feedback cycles. They take a minute to set up and will give you valuable insights, delivered directly to your inbox.

Collect feedback on literally anything - from lunch orders, to job candidates, off-site events, and all-hands meetings. Get creative - the world is your oyster!