Every Leqture session ends with the same short survey, whether it was booked on its own or ran as part of a company learning event. Over eight years that has produced 34,831 responses, each with a score for the session and a score for the speaker, and 17,540 of them with an answer written out in full. This page is what those numbers say. Nothing here is an estimate.
The average score participants give a session, across 31,663 rated sessions.
The average score for the expert. Consistently higher than the score for the session itself, every year we have measured.
Rate the session four or five out of five. The remaining 15% is where we learn something.
Write out an answer to "what did you learn?" rather than only clicking a score. For a voluntary survey that is unusually high.
An average hides the shape. This is the shape.
Only subjects with at least 200 responses behind them. The differences are small, and that is itself the finding: what decides whether an hour lands is not the subject.
| Subject | Responses | Average |
|---|---|---|
| Diversity & Inclusion | 4,555 | 4.38 |
| Creativity | 1,728 | 4.38 |
| Communication | 3,058 | 4.37 |
| Inspiration | 2,519 | 4.31 |
| Personal & Professional Development | 12,334 | 4.30 |
| Leadership | 10,062 | 4.30 |
| Science & Technology | 1,830 | 4.29 |
| Mental Health & Wellbeing | 6,632 | 4.25 |
| Business & Finance | 462 | 4.07 |
The speaker score beats the session score by 0.19 points, every year. Who stands in front of the room matters more than what the hour is called.
Between the best and worst scoring subject sits less than a third of a point. Picking the "right" theme is not where a programme is won.
17,540 written answers out of 34,831 responses. Colleagues will tell you what they took away, if you ask at the moment they just finished.
Every participant is shown the same survey when a session ends: a score out of five for the session, a score out of five for the expert, and an open question about what they took away. Taking part is voluntary and anonymous. The figures on this page cover 34,831 responses collected between 2019 and today, across 283 sessions, and they come from two places: sessions booked on their own, and sessions given as part of a company learning event. The event surveys account for 9,401 of the responses. Sessions at events score slightly higher than the same sessions booked on their own, and both are counted here exactly once.
What this is not: a representative study of learning at work. These are the people who attended a Leqture session, at organisations that had already decided to book one. They are not a random sample of employees, and we are not a neutral party. Read the numbers as what our own participants reported, because that is what they are.
The averages are unweighted: a session with 900 responses counts 900 times, one with 12 counts 12 times. A subject only appears in the table above when at least 200 responses sit behind it. The numbers on this page are recalculated every time the site is built, so they move with the data rather than with a press release.
Every session we run for you ends with it, and you get the report afterwards. Ask us how that works.
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