Workplace AI Coaching: Adoption & Impact Survey
Measures employee adoption rates, perceived impact, barriers, and enablers of AI coaching tools for writing, communication, and meetings. Designed for HR and L&D teams evaluating AI coaching ROI and rollout strategy.
Sample questions
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In the past 4 weeks, have you used any AI-powered tools that assist with writing, communication, or meetings at work (e.g., grammar assistants, tone analyzers, meeting summarizers)?
- Yes
- No
In the past 4 weeks, how often did you use AI coaching tools at work?
- Daily
- A few times per week
- About once per week
- Less than weekly
How open are you to trying an AI coaching tool for work writing or meetings in the next 3 months?
How valuable do you think AI coaching for writing, communication, and meetings would be for your work over the next 3 months?
What concerns, if any, do you have about using AI coaching at work? Select all that apply.
- Data privacy or confidentiality
- Inaccurate or made-up content
- Compliance or legal risk
- Loss of personal voice or authenticity
- Bias or fairness issues
- Extra time to review outputs
- Tool reliability or stability
- Team or manager acceptance
- Cost or licensing
- None of the above
- Other (please specify)
Based on your responses in this survey, please share any additional thoughts or experiences about AI coaching tools at work.
What is your primary job function?
- Engineering or IT
- Product or Design
- Data or Analytics
- Sales
- Marketing or Communications
- Customer Support or Success
- Operations or Finance
- HR or People
- Legal or Compliance
- Other/Multiple
Thank you for completing this survey. Your responses are confidential and will help shape our approach to AI coaching tools in the workplace. We appreciate your time.
Which of the following AI coaching uses have you tried at work in the past 4 weeks? Select all that apply.
- Drafting emails or chats
- Revising tone or clarity
- Summarizing meeting notes
- Generating meeting agendas or prompts
- Creating presentation outlines
- Practicing speaking or delivery feedback
- Extracting or suggesting action items
- Other (please specify)
How likely are you to recommend AI coaching tools to a colleague?
Which best describes your team's current guidance on using AI tools at work?
- Clear written policy
- Some informal guidance
- No guidance
- Not sure
What is your role level?
- Individual contributor
- People manager
- Director
- Executive
Compared to not using AI coaching, how has it affected the quality of your written communication (emails, chats, documents)?
Rank the following outcomes from most to least valuable to you personally.
- Save time on writing
- Improve clarity and tone
- Fewer or shorter meetings
- Better follow-through and action items
- Stronger presentation delivery
Which of the following would help you get more value from AI coaching tools at work? Select all that apply.
- Clear use-case examples or templates
- Hands-on training, workshops, or office hours
- Built into tools I already use (email, docs, meetings)
- Privacy and data security guidance
- Manager endorsement or team norms
- Access to approved, vetted tools
- Success stories or recommendations from colleagues
- No additional cost to me or my team
- None of the above
- Other (please specify)
Approximately how many people are in your immediate team?
- 1–5
- 6–10
- 11–25
- 26–50
- 51+
Compared to not using AI coaching, how has it affected the clarity of your verbal or presentation communication?
How long have you worked at your current company?
- Less than 6 months
- 6–12 months
- 1–2 years
- 3–5 years
- More than 5 years
Compared to not using AI coaching, how has it affected the efficiency of your meetings?
Where do you primarily work?
- On-site
- Hybrid
- Remote
Compared to not using AI coaching, how has it affected the amount of time you spend on writing and communication tasks?
What region do you primarily work in?
- North America
- Latin America
- Europe
- Middle East or Africa
- Asia
- Oceania
Compared to not using AI coaching, how has it affected your confidence in the quality of your work output?
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
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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
- Pairs a full quantitative battery (usage frequency, tool types tried, opinion-scale impact ratings on writing quality, verbal clarity, meeting efficiency, time spent, and confidence) with an adaptive AI follow-up interview that probes each respondent's own open-ended thoughts.
- Captures ranked personal priorities, multi-select concerns/barriers, and current team guidance/policy alongside what would help drive more value — giving HR and L&D a rollout and ROI picture in one instrument, not just satisfaction data.
- Includes segmentation dropdowns (job function, role level, team size, tenure, work location, region) so adoption and impact patterns can be cross-cut by workforce segment.
- Closes with an AI-generated follow-up interview and auto-generated report, turning open-ended responses into structured insight without manual coding — something none of the static form competitors offer.
Jotform
Employee Coaching Form TemplateThis is a static, fielding-ready form for documenting human manager-to-employee coaching sessions (goals, feedback, action items) — it does not address AI coaching tool adoption, usage frequency, or perceived impact at all. It shares the word 'coaching' with our template but serves a different use case: performance/skill coaching documentation rather than AI-tool ROI research.
What it does well
- Easy drag-and-drop customization typical of Jotform's builder
- Broad integration ecosystem (storage, notifications, workflows)
- Free tier available for basic use
Where it falls short
- Static question set with no adaptive follow-up probing
- Not designed to measure AI tool usage, barriers/enablers, or ROI
- No automated per-response quality scoring or AI-generated reporting
SurveySparrow
Employee Coaching Form TemplateSurveySparrow's template is a conversational, chat-style form built for structuring one-on-one coaching conversations, not a research survey on AI coaching tool adoption or impact. It's a reasonable general employee-development template but has no content around AI usage, barriers, or perceived value.
What it does well
- Conversational one-question-at-a-time UI
- Positioned for recurring manager check-ins
- Simple to deploy for teams already on SurveySparrow
Where it falls short
- No adaptive AI follow-up questioning
- Not built to capture AI tool usage patterns or barriers/enablers
- No voice AI interview option or automated ROI-focused reporting
Typeform
Employee Coaching Form TemplateTypeform's version is a polished, single-purpose form for capturing coaching plans and feedback between manager and employee, not an instrument for measuring AI coaching tool adoption. It benefits from Typeform's well-known conversational design but contains nothing on AI tool usage, impact, or organizational policy.
What it does well
- Highly polished conversational UI and design customization
- Generally strong completion rates due to Typeform's UX
- Straightforward to adapt for basic employee-development use cases
Where it falls short
- Purely static question flow with no adaptive probing
- No built-in scoring or analysis for AI-adoption metrics
- No guided screen-share tasks or voice AI interview capability
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