• Convene a committee and ask yourselves what went well and what challenges you faced.
• Complete a Post-Event Evaluation to record your ideas and lessons learned.
• Update any web information to reflect the event’s conclusion or new dates.

Most Georgia Tech events have three key groups: your guests, your VIPs, and your vendors. It's important to evaluate them before you let them evaluate you. Be sure to ask yourself:

• How large is this group and can I properly manage that level of feedback? (Could you imagine if we sent a survey to everyone who attended Commencement?)
• How educated is this group about this type of event?
• How responsive is this group to feedback?

Typically, the most useful feedback comes from your VIPs and your vendors. These keys groups are small enough for you to manage the feedback, are educated in events well enough to recognize the good and "needs improvement" elements, and often respond to feedback requests.

Evaluations could include questions for your key groups such as:

• Did the group understand the event's purpose?
• Did the group feel the elements of the event matched the event purpose?
• How did the timing of the event feel? (This could be not only the day and time of the event, but also the length and if things ran on time.)
• Would that group be a part of the event again in the future?

Always leave a comment box for any additional comments. You may miss out on the most important feedback because it does not fit into a checkbox. 

Here are some simple and free tools:

• Qualtrics
  Georgia Tech maintains a site license for this Survey Platform. The license is currently administered by the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts with help from others around campus, and extends to all faculty, staff, and students.
• Email
  If you have a smaller group or want to keep it personal, email is your best method. Include a solicitation for feedback with thank you notes. The downside to email is that it is hard to structure the feedback. Also, you may not get the type of honest, hard truths you are looking for because there is no anonymity.