Key Takeaway
While most employee voice platforms excel at capturing feedback, it’s no secret that their biggest weakness lies in helping organizations act on it. Activate changes that. The award-winning solution is now available for use with any third-party enterprise EX Listening platform — including Qualtrics, Medallia, and Viva Glint. Activate delivers the missing link of impact: scalable, science-backed behavior change that transforms insights into outcomes.
Why is Perceptyx making Activate available for use with third-party listening platforms?
For years, CHROs have been investing in survey tools to understand their people better. But listening alone has never been enough — without action, trust erodes. When feedback leads to no follow-through, organizations pay the price in wasted insight, stalled momentum, and unrealized potential.
Today, employees expect action — it’s no longer optional. According to Perceptyx research, while 71% of employees say their organization shares survey results, only 51% say those results lead to improvement. And organizations that successfully act on feedback are 6x more likely to exceed financial goals and 8x more likely to satisfy customers. The message is clear: while inaction erodes trust, action drives value and outcomes.
Ross Wainwright, CEO of Perceptyx, explained the point of expanding access to this powerful solution: “By making Activate available to an expanded audience of enterprises, we’re giving leaders a way to unlock value from the listening data they already have to accelerate sustainable behavior change and drive real progress against their most important business outcomes.”
What problem does Activate solve?
Most employee feedback platforms help you see where the gaps are, but they can’t help you close them—not in practical and measurable ways. Activate solves that problem, turning insight into impact. It helps organizations:
- Accelerate manager and team-level action on priority issues,
- Build workplace behaviors linked to engagement, retention, and performance,
- Reinforce learning and development through scientifically-backed nudges in the flow of work, and
- Measure the real progress of behavior change at the team level.
Whether you’re trying to revive a stalled listening program or get more value from your current EX platform, Activate offers a clear next step that delivers results quickly while laying the foundation for deeper transformation.
How does Activate work?
Activate helps employees and managers take meaningful action through a behavior change model grounded in Nobel Prize-winning Nudge Theory and powered by AI. Perceptyx data shows that:
- 66% of managers engage with nudges,
- Nudged teams improve scores by as much as 10 points in as little as 6 months, and
- Outcomes improve in key areas like collaboration, growth, manager effectiveness, and more.
At the core of Activate are three key tools:
- Intelligent Nudges: Small, timely, actionable guidance delivered in the flow of work.
- AI-Assisted Action Plans: Personalized plans lay out the steps for change, aligned to team needs, personal goals, and business objectives.
- AI Coach: On-demand development guidance based on continuous, real-time feedback, focused on cultivating the behaviors that characterize high-performing organizations.
What are the new deployment options?
To meet organizations where they are — whether they’re using Perceptyx for listening today or another provider — we’ve made Activate available in three flexible deployment options. Each is designed to deliver fast, measurable behavior change, but the path depends on your current state and goals.
1. Quick-Start Activation
Ideal for organizations that already know their top business and talent priorities and want to move fast.
Quick-Start Activation allows HR teams to deploy Activate without importing survey data or requiring platform integration. Many CHROs already have a clear sense of their most urgent challenges — like inconsistent manager follow-through, lack of career development conversations, or the need to reinforce leadership behaviors at scale. With Quick-Start, you can start nudging behavior change on these issues right away. It’s a fast, low-lift way to drive action where it’s most needed.
This option is particularly useful for organizations that are between listening cycles or working on standalone initiatives like leadership development, culture transformation, or change readiness.
2. Connected Activation
Designed for organizations using other employee voice platforms who want to drive action in direct relation to the feedback they already collect.
Connected Activation allows you to layer Activate on top of common third-party enterprise EX platforms like Qualtrics, Medallia, or Viva Glint. By ingesting feedback data already collected, Activate enables AI-assisted action plans and personalized nudges tied directly to what employees are saying, without requiring you to change platforms or disrupt your current tech stack.
It’s the easiest way to close the gap on your existing survey program and start driving measurable behavior change using the insights and survey capture tools you already have.
3. Complete EX Activation
For organizations ready to unify listening, analytics, and behavior change in one seamless platform.
With Complete EX Activation, Activate is fully embedded within the Perceptyx People Insights Platform. This provides an end-to-end solution — from survey design and data collection to insight generation, AI-powered recommendations, nudging, and manager enablement. It’s the most powerful way to operationalize continuous listening and development at scale.
Complete EX Activation gives organizations everything they need to improve their workplace in one place. This makes it easier to understand what employees want and helps managers take meaningful action.
How can HR & L&D Leaders personalize the experience?
Activate adapts to your organization's existing learning ecosystem while scaling behavior change. HR and L&D leaders can create customized nudging experiences through the Nudge Control Center with three key capabilities:
- Custom Learning Links embed your existing resources into Intelligent Nudges, connecting insights directly to action. Employees can access relevant learning materials within their workflow, making new behaviors easier to adopt.
- Nudge Agent uses our AI to transform your internal content into science-backed, personalized nudges aligned with your company's tone and goals. Simply upload your content, and it creates targeted guidance that integrates seamlessly with existing nudges.
- Nudge Boosts highlight specific priorities without disrupting employees' regular nudge experience, perfect for new initiatives or compliance training.
These features help you maximize existing learning investments while delivering continuous development that's relevant and measurable — turning insights into lasting behavioral change.
What’s the bottom line?
Organizations need a better way to act on feedback, not more of it. Activate gives them that by unlocking behavior change at scale. It meets leaders where they are, turns insight into action, and transforms stalled feedback programs into engines of measurable change. To learn more, schedule a demo with a member of our team.
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