Incorporating ERG work into Performance Reviews
June marks mid-year performance review season—and if you’re an ERG Leader or ERG Program Manager, it’s the perfect time to highlight the real impact of your ERG work. Learn how to document ERG achievements, align your contributions with company values, collect engagement data, and write performance
In additional to many ERG related celebrations happening this month, June is likely the beginning of mid-year performance reviews for many of you. With that in mind, here’s some tips to help you✨:
For ERG Leaders
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Familiarize Yourself with Company Values:
• Your manager might not know the specifics of your ERG work, but they understand company values. Relate your contributions to these values.
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Track Your Wins
• Consistently collect your engagement reports.
• Even if your ERG Program Manager hasn’t implemented a way to use your reports yet, keep collecting data. It’ll make it much easier to articulate your impact when the time comes.
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Document Everything You Do
• Write down all your ERG-related activities.
• Pro tip: Ask ChatGPT to help rewrite your tasks and make the link between them and your day job clear. Show how your ERG tasks enhance your primary role.
For ERG Program Managers
1.Provide Language and Data
• Supply ERG leaders with the language and data needed for a robust performance report related to their ERG activities.
• Ensure every ERG leader’s manager is aware that they’re a lead.
2.Standardize Processes
• Implement processes that ERG leads follow. This makes it easier to articulate what each lead has done and avoids the need to customize for each individual.
• Ensure roles have clear input and output metrics—these are key for performance reviews.
3.Evaluate and Share Impact
• Assess the ERG’s impact since the last performance review.
• Share a document highlighting metric wins and qualitative successes.
• Provide template performance review statements to help ERG leaders articulate their contributions.
The above may seem overwhelming, but in a perfect world, this is what you would do for all of the ERGs in your program on the same cadence that your company has performance reviews.