Benchmarking Survey
Getting started
Welcome - we are so happy that you are interested in our benchmarking tool! We hope engaging in this way will bring you and your team much inspiration. In testing this tool, we ourselves found that the true value often lies in the conversations and insights it sparks, rather than in the results per se. We encourage you to bring this to your team or community, allowing it to become a shared journey of discovering new values, strategic goals, success indicators, practices or ways of being together.
A few ideas for how to get started:
Go through the survey with your organisation in mind to see what comes up
Share with a colleague to see what they find
Bring the printed version to your team to work on together, principle by principle, then log your shared answers online
Create a working group in your organisation to lead the process of inquiry and implementation
Use your online results to identify areas of growth or inspiration, and set new aims together
Use your results to identify strengths and publicise the practices and ways of working you have in place
Start in one area and with one or a handful of new practices or policies to experiment with and evaluate
Come back to the tool regularly to track how your practice changes over time
Get in touch with us if you want advice or accompaniment along the way
Whichever way you use the tool, thank you for your work to create a more thriving, kincentric world!
How the survey is structured
The benchmarking survey has 8 sections, one for each of the Kincentric Leadership Principles.
At the beginning of each section, you will find the title of the principle, a quote, and the capacities for embodying a kincentric worldview associated with that principle. These are there to help orient and connect you more deeply with the theme.
Each section has between 8 and 11 indicators for self-assessment. The indicators are linked to the capacities listed at the top of the section. The questions are formulated as ‘we statements’ indicating a type of action a kincentric organisation would engage with. Each one also has a set of examples. The examples are meant as a guide to support your understanding of the indicator, and inspire and spark your imagination of what implemenation could look like. They are neither prescriptive, nor an exhaustive list of what's possible.
While we have tried to be inclusive in the examples, depending on the type of organisation you are doing the survey for, you might need to use your creativity to adapt the examples to better suit your field and organisation. If for example, you are a small organisation, your capacity and resources will differ from a larger one. If you are not place-based, your actions will look different to those who are. If you are a consultant or educator, your work might primarily lie in supporting others to implement these principles. Finally, if you are approaching this as an individual or self-employed person, there might be sections that require your creativity since the questions were created primarily for groups and organisations with more people.
At the end of each section - you can describe in free text the concrete activities, interventions or actions that you use in your work to implement the principle and indicators - your own examples. This text will never be visible to others. It's there to help you track and think about your own practice. It is also there for us at Kincentric Leadership to learn from you, and make our resources more relevant and anchored in real practice in the future.
Since this is a pilot, there is also a field where you can share feedback. This can be anything - what's missing, what worked well, anything that was unclear, how to make it more suited to your context, or more. This is to help us at Kincentric Leadership learn and refine the tool for future iterations. Your feedback is gratefully received and never made public.
Instructions
You can navigate between the 8 principles and sections of the survey through the menu at the top, where they are all listed by name. At the bottom of each section, you'll also find buttons to continue to the next one, or go to the previous.
Feel free to complete this survey in ways that work for you - the whole survey at once, one principle at the time, or anything in between. At any moment, you can choose to save and continue later, or submit and view your results - whether they are complete or not. You can come back later to revise answers, and complete multiple versions over time.
At the start of each section, we encourage you to take a moment to move your body, think of a non-human being or place you love, and take a few deep breaths. Even a small pause can be a surprisingly powerful way to be more present - and presence the many beings whom our lives are entangled with and depend on.
As you move through the indicators, you are invited to score each one on a scale from 0 to 5, based on how fully that practice is implementd in the organisation, group, community or other entity you are doing the survey for. You will find this scale at the beginning of each section, and we invite you to take a moment to read it through each time, since it helps orient and clarify your answers. The levels range from:
0. Does not apply / we do not do this
1. Seed - Awareness
We are aware of this possibility or approach and have begun to reflect on its relevance, but have not yet acted on it.
2. Sprout - Ad hoc practice
We do this occasionally or informally, in some moments or by some individuals, but not consistently.
3. Sapling - Emerging shared practice
We are beginning to establish shared practices or approaches, with growing coordination and commitment, though they are not yet consistent or fully embedded.
4. Tree - Integrated practice
This is a regular, intentional part of how we work, consistently included in our practices, processes, and ways of being together.
5. Fruit - Embodied and influential
This is deeply woven into how we are and how we work, and something we share, inspire, or support others to adopt or adapt.
You can also skip any question by selecting "Does not apply."
Pay attention to your throughts and feelings as you do the rating - what comes up for you? What would this look like for you? Which practices or policies do you have in place, and what's missing? You might want to take notes as you go along.
When you submit the survey for the first time, you will be emailed a feedback form. We would deeply appreciate it if you took the time to fill it in, so that we can learn from you and your experience.
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