How 360 Feedback May Help Employees Learn and Thrive

360 feedback also known as multi-rater appraisals or multi-source feedback is a technique for addressing prejudice. 360 feedback allows a person to obtain input from coworkers, subordinates, bosses, and even internal and external customers, rather than relying on one person’s opinion. This eliminates bias and gives a person significant insight into how others perceive them.

Opportunities for growth and improvement

360 feedback results give new information to a person while simultaneously reinforcing what they already know.

360 Feedback emphasizes the following:

• A person’s strengths that they are aware of.
• The areas in which a person is already aware that they require improvement.

360 Feedback reveals the following:

• Strengths that others can notice in a person that they didn’t realize they had.
• Areas that a person didn’t realize they needed to work on, but that others can notice.

Identifying strengths that a person didn’t realize they possessed can help them realize they are capable of far more than they previously believed. Reinforcing things, they already know to be strengths, on the other hand, may not seem valuable, but knowing that others regard them as strengths gives a person confidence.

A person’s value is greatly enhanced by revealing areas for improvement. It’s the initial step toward mastering a new skill or ability. A person is inadvertently restricting himself without this information. Similarly, reiterating the areas where they already know they need to improve acts as a drive for growth.

What Role Does 360 Feedback Play in Your Organization?

When done correctly, performance management employs a variety of methods to obtain the best results. 360 feedback is an excellent tool for building behavioral skills as part of a performance management process. Communication, teamwork, and leadership are examples of behavioral skills. They are more difficult to assess than technical skills, which can be simply demonstrated and assessed. The fact that behavioral skills are more subjective makes them more difficult to assess. When one person assesses behavioral skills, the results are both subjective and prejudiced. This is far from ideal. Multiple people evaluating a person’s behavioral skills, on the other hand, removes bias and reduces subjectivity. What role does it play in terms of subjectivity? When a number of people have the same opinion about someone, such opinion is consistent and important.

Ambivista’s CompleteView 360 assessment tool Helps develop strengths and improve developmental opportunities!

Ambivista’s CompleteView 360 assessment tool and appraisal process leverage best practices to show clients a clear reflection of themselves. This is accomplished by leveraging the best 360 assessment tool on the market along with our high-touch methodologies. This allows us to gather feedback from not only higher-level managers but also from other key rater groups. To learn more, please visit https://www.ambivista.com/.