Drive meaningful change with inclusion and belonging surveys

Look for inclusion and belonging survey software that’s intuitive to use and lets you collect anonymous responses. It’s also important to consider analytics and reporting capabilities, like syncing with other employee data, dashboards, sentiment analysis, and powerful filters to help you understand the difference in experiences of specific groups of employees.

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You have several options for creating inclusion and belonging surveys with SurveyMonkey. You can start from scratch and write your own questions, start from a template, or have AI build your survey for you.

Our most popular inclusion and belonging survey templates are:

• Belonging and Inclusion Survey Template, co-created with Paradigm

• Organizational Culture Survey Template

• Employee Engagement Survey Template

• Culture Pulse Survey Template

If you choose to build your survey with AI, we recommend including the following in your AI prompt (shown here with an example):

• Your role: “I am an HR manager at a life sciences company.”

• Your goal: “I want to learn how we can improve the employee experience, especially around the topic of inclusion and belonging.”

• What you want to know: “Specifically, I want to understand whether people feel like they can be their authentic selves at work, feel respected and valued, feel like they have equal growth opportunities, …”

• Your audience: “I want to hear from employees across different job levels, departments, and geographies at the company, and I want to be able to see my results by a variety of backgrounds including age, gender, race/ethnicity, experience, and more.” 

• Any other specifics: “Finally, I would like to include the ability to sign up for a focus group on this topic by supplying name and email address.”

Here are some top recommended questions from our Belonging and Inclusion Survey Template, co-created with Paradigm. These questions use a Likert scale of strongly agree, agree, neither agree nor disagree, disagree, strongly disagree.

Questions about belonging:
• “I feel like I belong at my company.”
• “I feel respected and valued by my teammates at my company.”
• “I feel respected and valued by my manager at my company.”

Questions about objectivity and fairness:
• “Promotion decisions are fair at my company.”
• “I feel that my compensation is fair, relative to similar roles at my company.”

Questions about growth mindset:
• “My company believes that people can always greatly improve their talents and abilities.”
• “I feel confident I can develop my career at my company.”

In addition to the questions above, it’s important to include questions about diversity of backgrounds. Demographic questions like age, gender identity, race or ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, child/elder care, location, job level, department, tenure, etc. allow you to filter by and compare these groups during analysis.

The best workplace culture programs start with listening to employees. Surveys help you proactively capture the genuine, authentic experience people have at your organization. Those insights inform where to focus efforts on developing courses, workshops, and resources to address issues and improve the experience. 

Surveys can then help you again to gather opinions and reflections on your programming, creating a feedback loop that holds your workplace culture program accountable to employees' ever-evolving needs.

Programs take the guesswork out of setting up continuous listening journeys by linking surveys together, recommending scheduling cadences, and tracking how things evolve over time.

You can get started quickly from the “Made for You” section, which offers curated programs tailored to your goals—like inclusion and belonging or employee engagement.

You can also create a program from scratch or add your existing surveys into a program.

As responses come in, programs automatically connect your data to show how your key metrics and sentiment change over time—so you can quickly spot trends across all your connected surveys.

From your program overview, you can go beyond high-level trends and dive deeper into your data with multi-survey analysis. Customize what you see by:

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