Leading Edge Survey 

The 2023 survey has now closed and results will be available to organisations later in the year.

The Leading Edge Employee Experience Survey is intended to help individual organisations understand and improve how their employees experience work. The survey helps Jewish nonprofit leaders and managers identify organisational strengths as well as growth areas that can be addressed to improve workplace culture.

  • What is Leading Edge?

    Leading Edge helps Jewish nonprofits improve their workplace culture and leadership so that they can better achieve their missions. They know that when organisations enable their employees to provide feedback at work, they can recruit and retain great people, and build a healthy and sustainable workplace culture.

  • The Survey

    The purpose of the Leading Edge Employee Experience Survey is to provide insight into employees’ experiences at work, and allow organisations to identify organisational strengths as well as growth areas. This is the first time the survey has been run in the UK and the JLC are proud to be partnering with Leading Edge to deliver this to organisations across the community.

  • Get involved

    We are encouraging organisations to sign up their teams in order to gain the most benefit from the survey and analysis. You can also sign up as an individual and if sufficient people from an organisation complete the survey, we can then provide an analysis of the results direct to the organisation. The survey is open to charities working within the Jewish Community in the UK.

Why are we doing it?

As part of the JLC’s strategic work to strengthen communal capacity and capability, we are committed to understanding in more depth the barriers and motivations of working professionally in the community, what makes Jewish Charities great places to work and how we can further support community organisations to succeed.

It’s confidential

Leading Edge and the JLC are committed to keeping all responses 100% confidential. The results will only be shared with those who are specifically designated by your organisation to have access. We will publish overall reports but these are based on fully anonymised aggregate data and no data specific to any individual organisation will ever be publicly released without explicit consent.

It’s free to take part.

There is no cost to participate and the survey will be open in July.  This is the first time the survey has been offered in the UK and this ground-breaking partnership signals a real moment of focus to highlight the value that professional staff play in our excellent community organisations. 

You’re in good company.

The purpose of the Leading Edge Employee Experience Survey is to provide insight into employees’ experiences at work, and allow leaders to identify organisational strengths as well as growth areas. Leading Edge will provide access to materials and resources that will help organisations throughout the survey process.  Over the past 7 years, 395 organisations have participated in the Leading Edge Employee Experience Survey in the USA. Participating organisations range in staff size from 6 to over 1,000, and include JCCs, youth organisations, federations, social justice organisations, synagogues, human service organisations, foundations, schools, and more.  You can read more online here in the report that summarizes the results from the 2022 survey. 

Register as an organisation

    • You are a registered charity in the Jewish Community in the UK

    • You have been registered for at least 12 month

    • You have at least 4 employees (this is a critical number in order to provide confidentiality and analysis of data in your organisation)

    • Registration requires a nominated individual from each organisation to apply and then provide data on the staff participating at a later date.

Register as an individual

    • You are employed (either full time or part time) by a charity in the Jewish Community in the UK

    • You have been employed by this charity for at least 3 months

  • Registration as an individual requires you to provide only your details.

FAQs

  • Leading Edge is a USA based organisation that helps Jewish nonprofits improve their workplace culture and leadership so that they can better achieve their missions. They know that when organisations enable their employees to provide feedback at work, they can recruit and retain great people, and build a healthy and sustainable workplace culture.

  • The purpose of the Leading Edge Employee Experience Survey is to provide insight into your employees’ experiences at work, and allow you to identify organisational strengths as well as growth areas. Over the past 7 years, 395 organisations have participated in the Leading Edge Employee Experience Survey in the USA. Participating organisations range in staff size from 6 to over 1,000, and include JCCs, youth organisations, federations, social justice organisations, synagogues, human service organisations, foundations, schools, and more. You can read more online here in the report that summarizes the results from the 2022 survey.

  • The JLC will have access to the overall results of the survey to analyse and interpret the trends across the community. This is our first pilot year and we hope that this, like the survey in the USA, will become a regular occurrence across community organisations over the coming years. Once the results are in, the JLC will be able to analyse the data, sharing findings with wider community stakeholders alongside considering the impact of the survey. The JLC will not see data from individual organisations unless the organisation chooses to share their data set/dashboard with the JLC. The JLC will not share information from the survey that would identify an organisation or individual without their explicit permission.

  • The JLC and Leading Edge will comply with all aspects of GDPR and you can read the JLC’s privacy policy here.

  • Leading Edge guarantees the confidentiality of all organisations and employees. They are committed to ensuring no individual organisation’s data is ever made public. The JLC is also committed to this. Any data that is shared will be in aggregate form and will adhere to strict confidentiality thresholds. To ensure that staff feel comfortable being as honest as possible, all answers and comments that employees provide in the survey are 100% CONFIDENTIAL. At no point will your organisation, or the JLC have access to individual responses or know who has responded to the survey.

    Leading Edge and the JLC will protect this information through a set of safeguards and security protocols, and results will be reported to organisational leaders as part of the organisation's overall data. Leaders will be able to view and group data in different ways, but at no point will organisations have access to responses associated with any individual

    Where Leading Edge or the JLC publishes data they will be based on fully anonymised aggregate data, but no data specific to any individual organisation will ever be publicly released without your explicit consent.

  • People who are employed on a full time or part-time basis at a registered charity working within the Jewish community, based in the UK. Employees are those who are on the payroll of the charities, not subcontractors/consultants.

  • Ideally we would like organisations to sign up and take advantage of the opportunity to hear from staff about their experiences. We are also offering the opportunity for individuals to sign up and have their voices heard. If we receive over 6 responses from any organisation - either via a coordinated group from the organisation, or via individuals who have participated independently, we will then be able to share the results with the organisation to view their data/dashboard.

  • The survey includes mostly rating scale questions, on a five-point system ranging from strongly agree to strongly disagree. Participants can share verbatim comments for any question. Other questions include optional demographic questions and open-ended questions. The survey covers topics like employee engagement, leadership, collaboration, and communication.

  • Please email us at survey@thejlc.org

Take part.