What is a Leadership 360?
A leadership 360 feedback is a process in which an individual’s leadership skills and behavior are evaluated by multiple sources, including their team leads and fellow team members.
The goal of this feedback is to provide someone with a comprehensive understanding of their strengths, weaknesses, and areas for improvement, from a variety of perspectives.
This type of feedback can be vital to a team’s performance because it allows team members to identify blind spots and areas for development, which can ultimately improve their ability to lead and motivate their team. It also promotes self-awareness and can help people understand how their actions affect others, which can lead to better communication, collaboration, and overall team functioning.
In the educational context especially, beyond a teams’ performance in a semester, our leadership 360 feedback is an opportunity to give your students a chance to develop skills valuable in their lives and careers post-graduation.
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How It Works
- The team lead or faculty advisor sends us a list of team members to get the report
- We send out custom survey links to the team members
- The team members take ~15 minutes to complete the survey
- We aggregate the data and create custom reports for selected team members
- We can send out the reports directly to the team members, or send them only to the team lead / faculty advisor, who would then distribute after reviewing
- We provide an easy roadmap that allows team leads to maximize leader development for each team member
- We are your continued partner in implementing your plan, here to offer feedback, resources, and other guidance that may be needed
*Please note that all survey responses are confidential, and results will be displayed in aggregate to identify themes; no individual responses will be shared unless anonymized first. In addition, no traceable team member data or personally-identifying information of any participant will be shared and we will not share any data with any 3rd parties.
For the leadership factors where team members are rated just using numbers, each athlete will see their own self-rating score and the average score of all the others’ ratings.
Our report does include free-response feedback, unless you opt out. If you don’t opt out of the qualitative feedback feature (for instance, an open-ended “do you have any feedback for this person about their leadership style?”), we do not distribute that directly to the team members right away.
Instead, we aggregate those qualitative answers and put them in a report for the team lead’s eyes only. If the team lead approves, we can disseminate that feedback to the team members, but we won’t do that until the team lead has reviewed the feedback themself first. That is, it would not appear in the personalized report for the team lead, and it would be the team lead’s discretion for how to handle distributing the feedback.
You can see a sample report here.
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How Long Does It Take?
The overall time can vary widely, but a good estimate is about 15 minutes for the survey portion and another 30 minutes for the individual team member reflection.
The leadership 360 feedback process is divided into two parts: the survey where the team member rates themself and other teammates, and the second part involves reflecting on the findings in each report. The first part will depend on your team’s size and whether you have opted into the open feedback feature, but it shouldn’t take more than 20 minutes to complete.
The second part can vary a lot depending on the amount of time the team lead / faculty mentor wants to spend on individualized debriefing, as well as how much encouragement the team member receives to really spend time with the worksheets in the report. At a minimum, we believe team leads should ask their teams to spend at least 30 minutes with their report, going through the worksheets on their own.
However, you will find the best results if you or your staff manage to sit with each team member and go over the data. Depending on your team size, the time commitment for the support staff could be pretty high, though on a per-team member basis, it might only add another 30 minutes to the team member’s schedule.
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What’s on the Leadership 360?
We curated ten research-validated measures for the Leadership 360. They are either based on behaviors or mindsets, both of which are actionable for developing leaders to work on right away. You can see a short list of the variables we include on page 14 of the sample report, or check out more detailed descriptions of the variables on the first 13 pages.
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