For many organizations, summer tends to be a bit quieter as far as tackling or kicking off new initiatives and projects goes. Part of this is due to January and September being viewed as times for “new beginnings/fresh starts,” but it’s also due to the fact that, for many organizations, new budgets to support costs associated with new initiatives or projects become available in January or September. And, some organizations hold off on new projects until fall, simply because they know they’ll only have a “skeleton crew” in place during summer because of staff vacations. Regardless of the reason for summer’s lull on the work front, why not take advantage of it to position yourself or members of your team for success this coming fall?
The Benefits of Gathering Internal 360 Feedback
A fun, informative, and easy way to assess what skills you, your direct reports, or your leadership team need to develop, or enhance, to be more effective in current or future roles is thru what’s known as “internal (vs. external) 360 feedback” gathering.
Internal 360 feedback assessments collect information directly from assessment participants related to both their current and past life – hence, the term “360,” which is indicative of a comprehensive or full-circle assessment. Such feedback gathering includes:
- Your or an employee’s goals – related to both the assessment process, and life, in general.
- Your or an employee’s learning origins – early learning behaviors and patterns and their impact on the results you have or haven’t achieved.
- Your or an employee’s life experiences – how they’ve contributed to or negatively impacted your level of resiliency.
- Your or an employee’s job history – similar to your learning origins, a discussion of your job history will help you understand behaviors and patterns you developed in past roles and their impact on your career.
As a certified provider and administer of “Results Accelerator™ – Internal 360!” 360 feedback assessments, we employ the aforementioned powerful tool/solution which offers the following insights:
- your personal patterns, both conscious and unconscious, that determine both your likelihood to succeed or fail
- what drives your thinking and behaviors, and which patterns work and don’t work for you
Ultimately what our team will do with the above feedback is help you refine or transform existing, or develop new, patterns of thinking and behavior to support your achieving personal and career goals and objectives, including ones related to becoming a more effective leader.
The Gathering & Sharing Of Internal-360-Feedback Results Made Easy
Because, as we discuss in more detail below, we can facilitate a “debrief” session virtually/online via a video-chat/web conference service like “Zoom,” the team at Bercume Associates can offer internal-360- feedback assessment services to individuals throughout the U.S. This eliminates time, cost, and logistical challenges associated with meeting with you or your employees in-person/on-site to review results of internal-360 feedback, such as the following:
- employees working out of numerous vs. one location
- our team needing to travel to your location, or you or your employee needing to travel to ours
- employees not being accustomed to coming into the office due to organization having a fully remote work model
The above said, should clients want to meet in-person vs. virtually, or want to meet in a group vs. individually, our team likely can offer that opportunity to you or your team. Learn more about the various options for working with us on internal-360-feedback assessments.
How Internal-360 Feedback Is Employed: Steps That Normally Follow Internal-360 Feedback Gathering
Post administering our “Results Accelerator™ – Internal 360!” assessment with you, your team, or your leaders, at a minimum, we will meet with you or the employee from whom the internal-360 feedback was gathered to “debrief” results. That means, we’ll let you or your team member know the thought patterns and behaviors that help you excel, as well as those that are likely detrimental to current or future success. Plus, we’ll provide some initial thoughts about how you can eliminate or re-jigger behaviors or thinking that does not serve you well, or that could serve you better.
While not required when engaging our executive coaching and facilitation team to administer one or several internal-360-feedback assessments, many of our clients hire us to provide one-on-one personalized coaching or group coaching to the employees for which assessments were conducted, particularly when sizeable/significant detrimental patterns of behavior or thinking are observed. Such customized coaching on topics such as communication, emotional intelligence, leadership specifically address areas for improvement identified via the internal-360-feedback assessment.
Reach Out To Learn More About Internal-360-Feedback Assessments
Each employer’s and employee’s situation is different, and the team at Bercume Associates has developed and administered custom assessment solutions for many years, so don’t hesitate to reach out to us because of what you perceive to be needs that are “too unique” or “too custom.” We offer flexible solutions to meet each & every client need.