Leading Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Why do people all over the world enjoy participating in games and sports? Why have games and sports been going on for not just centuries, but millennia? One of the theories is that they provide immediate feedback. Indeed, a good part of the joy and appeal of every sport is this immediate feedback.

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360-Degree Feedback Sports Learning-by-Doing Participative 284

Marshall Goldsmith

JULY 28, 2014

If there is one thing I know, it’s how to respond to feedback. A pioneer in the use of customized, 360 degree feedback (confidential feedback from direct reports, peers and managers) as a leadership development tool, I’ve spent the last 30 years using feedback to help people change for the better.

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Sports 360-Degree Feedback Leadership Executive Coaching 116

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Leaders in the company received 360-degree feedback to help them understand how their actual behavior was seen as matching this desired profile. All were trained to respond to co-workers on their feedback using a very simple follow-up process.

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360-Degree Feedback Follow-up Ethics Learning-by-Doing 166

Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Leaders in the company received 360-degree feedback to help them understand how their actual behavior was seen as matching this desired profile. Just like the 2,000 leaders mentioned above, every leader in our study received feedback. The company had developed a well-thought-out profile of desired leadership behaviors.

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360-Degree Feedback Follow-up Ethics Training 96

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2012

For example, use regression analyses of performance and 360-degree feedback data to determine training priorities. Make sales a team sport. Demand that your sales organization do a deep analysis into micro-markets — sometimes even down to the zip code or street level — to find the growth hot spots.

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CEO 360-Degree Feedback Contract Manufacturing Supply Chain 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

In most organizations, professionals who want to move up get lots of feedback. Many companies provide you with so-called 360-degree feedback based on anonymous surveys from your boss, peers, and direct reports. Did you hit your numbers? Make your budget? How did you perform in managing a major project?

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Career 360-Degree Feedback Mentor Long-term 9

Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 22, 2010

My work as an executive coach involves looking at a lot of 360 degree feedback reports. One of the patterns I see in the 360 data on leadership behaviors is that peers are typically the lowest rating group for any given executive.

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Bottom-up Short-term Executive Coaching Open-book 177