Insights From Our First Employee Engagement Survey

Real PM listened, and here’s how we’re going to act and grow together

In mid-August we launched Real PM’s first-ever employee engagement survey. Not only did we feel that it was past due, it has also been a year of great change at Real PM so we wanted to make sure that we were checking in with our team to see how they were feeling.

We are proud to say that the overall “results” of the survey were positive, telling us that we’re going in the right direction with:

87% of employees reported that they had an excellent and/or good relationship with their manager

80% of employees reported high role satisfaction

When asked what they value most about their roles, the most frequent responses were: teamwork, variety of work and autonomy.

There was, of course, room for improvement.

After all we didn’t run an engagement survey just to get a tap on the back and say well done us! The two key areas for improvement were highlighted as: a lack of breakout space and limited opportunities for growth and training.

And you know what, we are in total agreement.

For this reason, in early September we will be launching a dedicated new breakout/lunch space with key goals to be a space where our team members don’t feel overlooked and clock-watched, a space where they can use their lunchtime to fully unwind and have a much needed screen break…or maybe just a smaller screen…there would be a riot if it was deemed a phone-free zone!

We also commit to offering more group and singular training opportunities in 2026 with the first full department training session being planned for early February. We want our team members to grow and to grow with us. We may not be a family business per se but that is definitely what we feel like. Managing Director, Barry Fowler, who became head of Real PM in March of this year, listed one of his key goals for Real PM to be better communication with employees and for that reason we have instituded monthly and quarterly reviews with all managers and their team members so that we are able to truly say that we are listening to our team and are providing regular opportunities for them to tell us where they want to grow.

We are, after all, only as strong as a team as we are individuals.