360 Degree Leadership Skills Feedback

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‘Improving Management Performance through Technology’

Acumen developed Leadership Skills, a 360-degree instrument for assessing skills which delivers performance feedback that enables individuals to take charge of their own development and improve their skills.

Acumen has done extensive research on skill development and the critical skills that enhance management performance. Acumen® Leadership Skills is a reliable and valid instrument – normed on managers in over 80 organisations, many of them Fortune 500 companies.

Each feedback report provides you with feedback from others on the candidate’s level of leadership and managerial skills. The 16 scales that measure success behaviours in Leadership Skills are the results of years of research, interviews and testing. These scales are grouped into four conceptual categories:

• Task Management;
• Team Development;
• Business Values and
• Leadership.

What the candidate will learn

• The skills most important in their current position;
• The expectations and perspectives of managers, peers and team members;
• How their skills compare to those of managers in other organisations;
• How and where to increase personal effectiveness;
• Why peers and managers may view their performance differently;
• To create a focused plan for critical skills development.

Report features

• Co-workers prioritise 5 most important skills
• Verbatim comments from co-workers
• Breakout graphics by rater category
• Item level feedback by scale
• Graph showing spread of rater opinions
• Ability to optimise length of feedback report
• Specific development suggestions based on your pattern of scores
• Individualised narrative feedback to guide development priorities

Assessment Process

• The candidate is supplied with a computer based Windows-compatible disk.
• The candidate and additional raters (including Manager, Peers, Direct Reports, Internal Customers, External Customers and so on) each complete the questionnaire – the duration is approximately 15-20 minutes per rater.
• The candidate arranges for the disk to be passed from one rater to the next until all have completed the administration.
• The disk is then returned to Psych Press for scoring and report generation. The reports are dispatched within 24 hours and are sent as a spiral bound hard copy report.
• The candidate also receives a comprehensive Participant Workbook to assist them in working through their report and maximising the feedback.

Target Audience

The primary users of Acumen® Leadership Skills are executives, managers, supervisors and team leaders.

Click here to see a sample report

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