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Part 1 focused on organizational readiness for a 360-feedback project, and Part 2 was about choosing the right leadership “mirror.” The final blog post in this three-part series considers what happens when the leader looks into it. Even if the response rate is excellent and raters provided thoughtful qualitative feedback, a 360 report alone does not create the conditions for change. But a well-structured debrief and development planning process does. The difference between a

Part 1 in this 3-part series was about strategic readiness for 360-degree feedback. Today, I focus on how to evaluate and select the right tool to match the organization's needs. Then, Part 3 will address the key considerations for meaning-making, insight generation, and action-oriented leadership development planning. Once the WHY is clear and the organization is aligned around a 360 project, the question becomes: What kind  of mirror are we choosing? Here’s how I’d frame th

Over the past few weeks, I’ve held conversations about 360s with peers, coaching affinity groups, and vendors. This 3-part series is a distillation of themes from those discussions. Please let me know what you’d add from your experience! Part 1: Get Clear on the WHY (Before the WHAT and the HOW) When talent leaders are asked to “run a 360,” the impulse might be jump straight into the tactical weeds. How many leaders? When would we launch? Which tool? What’s the budget? I get

Last week, a leader I’d coached reached out to me on LinkedIn. She’d been part of an intensive leadership program last October and had been revisiting her development plan. “A year has passed, and I haven’t held myself accountable to my goals,” she admitted. “I wrote a note to myself— remember the Ship of Theseus —but now I can’t quite recall the story. Can you please remind me?” The program she mentioned was an annual highlight for many years. Along with the intensive in-per

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