4 After a Session

A final responsibility for session organizers is collecting, reviewing and altering session format or content based on feedback. This is especially important for organizers running multiple sessions. It is important for participants to recognize that their feedback is being considered and acted upon. If you need to ask for contact information, consider asking for it in a separate survey and ensuring participants that the results will not be linked.

You may want to design a brief feedback survey for participants to complete towards the end of a session. Carefully consider what demographic information you ask your participants and whether it is necessarily relevant to your evaluation of the session. Especially in smaller sessions, certain demographic information may make the participant providing feedback identifiable and you may find that that particular bit of demographic information is not essential to your evaluation. 

Debriefs with facilitators or key participants following a session can be very useful. Likewise, you may consider sharing relevant participant feedback with facilitators in an anonymized, aggregated form.