360 Feedback
Performance Appraisals are great but how many of us only work with one person. A 360-degree feedback program allows the participant to receive full-circle feedback – from managers, reporting staff, colleagues/peers, and others both internal and external to the organisation.
It allows the individual to adapt their style to the diverse range of people they deal with as they are far more aware of their own behavior and how that impacts upon others.
Feedback is still structured around a set of competencies and associated behaviours required for high performance of the job, and reflecting the organisation’s vision and values translated into day-to-day behaviours.
360-degree feedback provides a more realistic, balanced picture of qualitative performance (the “how”), effectively complementing the traditional quantitative measures of performance (the “what)
This process gives individuals more self-awareness around their actions which will help them develop but it also makes you as an employer more aware of your employees to allow you to change and develop your business more effectively. Cultural changes are easier to change and embed and developing teams as a whole playing to each individual's strengths is far easier.
This process can also be used at any level of the organisation.