ERG Impact & Belonging Assessment
Measures Employee Resource Group effectiveness across inclusion, belonging, career development, and accessibility. Designed for organization-wide deployment to inform DEI strategy and ERG program improvements.
Sample questions
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Are you currently a member of any Employee Resource Group (ERG)?
- Yes
- No
- Not sure
I feel a sense of belonging at this company.
In the past 6 months, how much have ERGs contributed to your professional development?
How aware are you of the Employee Resource Groups available at this company?
- Very aware — I know what they do and how to join
- Somewhat aware — I know some exist
- Have heard of them but not sure what they do
- Not aware of any ERGs
Please rank the following improvements by how much they would enhance your ERG experience. Drag to reorder (top = highest priority).
- More manager encouragement to participate
- More flexible timing (e.g., rotating or after-hours options)
- Clearer communication and promotion of events
- More budget for skills and learning activities
- Visible leadership participation
- Virtual/hybrid options for all events
Which region do you primarily work from?
- North America
- Latin America
- Europe
- Middle East & Africa
- Asia
- Australia & New Zealand
- Multiple regions
- Prefer not to say
Thank you for your time and insights. Your feedback will help us strengthen ERG programs for everyone.
In the past 6 months, how often did you participate in any ERG activities (e.g., events, meetings, programs)?
- Weekly
- Monthly
- Quarterly
- Once or twice
- Not in the past 6 months
ERG involvement has strengthened my sense of connection with colleagues.
Which types of professional growth, if any, have you gained through ERGs in the past 6 months? Select all that apply.
- Skill building or training
- Mentorship or sponsorship
- Networking and relationships
- Visibility to leadership
- Project or leadership opportunities
- Public speaking or presenting
- None so far
- Other
ERG opportunities are equally accessible to employees regardless of their location or work arrangement.
Which themes would you most like ERGs to focus on next quarter? Select all that apply.
- Career workshops
- Mentorship programs
- Allyship and inclusion training
- Community outreach
- Wellness and wellbeing
- Cultural celebrations
- Volunteering
- Other
What is your current role level?
- Individual contributor
- People manager
- Director / Senior manager
- Executive
- Intern / Apprentice
- Contractor / Temporary
- Prefer not to say
I feel comfortable being my authentic self at work.
What, if anything, makes it difficult for you to engage with ERGs? Select all that apply.
- Limited time or workload
- Not aware of events or schedules
- Events at inconvenient times
- Location or remote work barriers
- Topics feel not relevant to me
- Manager does not encourage participation
- I prefer not to participate
- No barriers for me
- Other
Based on your responses in this survey, what is one thing ERGs could do to better support your sense of belonging and professional growth?
Which best describes your current work arrangement?
- Onsite
- Hybrid
- Fully remote
- Field-based
- Prefer not to say
ERGs at this company create a welcoming environment for people of all backgrounds.
We'd like to learn a bit more about your ERG experience. An AI moderator will ask you 1–2 brief follow-up questions based on your earlier answers.
Which department or function do you primarily work in?
- Engineering / IT
- Product / Design
- Sales
- Marketing
- Customer Support / Success
- Operations
- Finance / Legal
- HR / People
- Other
- Prefer not to say
How long have you worked at this company?
- Less than 1 year
- 1–2 years
- 3–5 years
- 6–10 years
- More than 10 years
- Prefer not to say
What’s included
AI follow-ups
Adaptive probes on open-ended answers that pull out detail a static form would miss.
Attention checks
Built-in safeguards against rushed answers and low-quality respondents.
AI-drafted copy
Wording, ordering, and branching written by the AI — tuned to your research goal.
Auto report
Themes, quotes, and a plain-English summary write themselves once responses come in.
How it compares
We reviewed the closest templates from other survey tools. Here’s what they do well — and where this template goes further.
Why this template
- Combines quantitative opinion-scale items (belonging, authenticity, welcoming environment, accessibility) with an open-text reflection and an adaptive AI follow-up interview that can probe low-belonging or low-accessibility responses for richer context.
- Includes a dedicated professional-development question plus a barrier-identification multiple-choice and a ranked-improvement-priorities question, giving DEI teams both diagnostic and prioritization data in one instrument.
- Captures organizational demographics (region, role level, work arrangement, department, tenure) directly in the flow, so ERG effectiveness can be segmented without a separate identification form.
- Automated per-response quality scoring and auto-generated reports turn raw survey data into a DEI-strategy-ready report, rather than leaving analysis entirely to the practitioner.
SurveyMonkey
Belonging And Inclusion Survey TemplateA fielding-ready template focused specifically on belonging and inclusion, likely with pre-built rating-scale questions and SurveyMonkey's standard analytics and benchmarking. It covers similar sentiment themes (belonging, inclusion) but is not built around ERGs specifically, so items like ERG awareness, participation frequency, or ERG-driven career growth would need custom additions. It's a static questionnaire rather than an adaptive interview format.
What it does well
- Purpose-built belonging/inclusion template ready to deploy quickly
- Backed by SurveyMonkey's established survey logic, distribution, and reporting tools
- Likely benefits from benchmarking data given SurveyMonkey's large survey volume
Where it falls short
- Static question set with no adaptive AI follow-up probing into individual answers
- No voice AI interview option for richer qualitative capture
- No published methodology on question design or automated per-response quality scoring
QuestionPro
20 Career Training and Development Survey Questions + Sample Questionnaire TemplateThis is a listicle-style guide with sample career/training development questions rather than a ready-to-field ERG or belonging survey — it would need heavy customization to serve as an ERG impact assessment. It's useful only for the professional-development slice of ERG measurement, not inclusion, belonging, or accessibility. Best treated as a content resource rather than a deployable template.
What it does well
- Offers a broad bank of career-development questions to draw from
- Backed by QuestionPro's survey platform for logic and distribution
- Useful starting point if only the career-growth dimension is needed
Where it falls short
- Not a dedicated ERG or belonging assessment — missing inclusion, authenticity, and accessibility dimensions entirely
- Static text questions with no adaptive AI follow-up or voice interview capability
- Presented as a guide/blog resource rather than a fielding-ready survey instrument
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