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360 Degree Feedback - About the method
Definition: method of subjective assessment of employee’s competences, realized from many perspectives of labor relations..
OBJECTIVES:
- Development of managers and improvement of management effectiveness
- Providing assessment participants with feedback on competences they possess
- Inspiring and giving concrete instructions to plan own development
METHOD:
- Questionnaire consists of a number of closed questions and optional open questions
- Respondents group can involve: superior, subordinate, coworkers, internal and external clients and assessed manager himself/herself. Scope of this group determinates the range of assessment (180 Degrees, 270 Degrees, 360 Degrees).
- Survey is anonymous – respondents do not provide any data that would allow their identification.
- Data is collected in a traditional manner (paper forms) or with use of the internet platform.
- At every stage of the process, communication with its participants is maintained (information campaign, and in the phase of data collection – special telephone line and email contact)
- Participants receive feedback in the form of individual report, which can be jointly analyzed during individual meeting with a consultant
ELEMENTS OF THE PROCESS:
- Analysis of a set of competencies or company values that constitute a basis for questionnaire content
- Designing of questionnaires (a tool is adjusted to the model of values or competencies, consists from 20 up to 60 questions)
- Programming of the internet platform – See also - Information campaign
- Process of collecting assessments from respondents
- Processing of results and preparation of group as well as individual reports – form to be agreed
- Individual meeting with a consultant dedicated to discussion of obtained results
BENEFITS:
- Obtaining information from various sources concerning the perception of competences of the assessed participants
- Providing assessed participants with an incentive to self-reflection and in result motivation to change and development
- Strengthening awareness that a superior is not the only source of appraisal and feedback
- Incentive for open communication inside a Company, its support
- Approaching the issue of relations and cooperation with employees and coworkers – preventing escalation of potential problems