The development of the Collective Mindfulness Survey followed a speaking tour of South Africa in September of 2009. It was during the introduction of concepts in safety such as Situational Awareness and Collective Mindfulness, that quite a reasonable question was asked.

"David, this sounds like a very powerful way to think inside the business, but how do we really 'know' that we are?"

What a brilliant question! The answer by the way (up till now) was; we don't. That's a little unfair. We actually do, but the only way was to conduct some sort of anecdotal review. There certainly was nothing freely available that had, at its core, a sense of empirical analysis. It was for that reason that TransformationalSafety.Com embarked on the development of The Collective Mindfulness Survey.

We began with the premise that we needed a way that we could effectively get an "understanding" of the five (5) Colelcite Mindfulness dimension from within the workforce itself. Standard interview techniques etc often result in all sorts of imported bias - so we discarded that approach pretty quickly. Interview techniques by the way are excellent tools for putting meat on the bones; what we require though, in the first instance, is a skeleton.

The Collective Mindfulness Survey uses the same proven technologies associated with the globally recognized Transformational Safety and Leadership Surveys. Within the Survey items are twenty five (25) distinct questions about aspects associated with Collective Mindfulness. These are randomly delivered - and there are negative framed items as well (this assist with determining the statistical validity of the overall results). Also contained within the Survey Tool are five (5) behavioural (outcome) items. These are the same five (5) items that can be found embedded within the Transformational Leadership Survey - and are included to allow for comparative studies in the future.

The Collective Mindfulness Survey was launched in January, 2010.

If you would like to consider your own personal thinking with regard to the concepts underpinning Collective Mindfulness then feel FREE to play with the Collective Mindfulness Survey - Individual Version.

To actually analyse an organizations location on the Collective Mindfulness Safety-Plex request a FREE needs analysis from TransformationalSafety.Com