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How to Solve Your Most Difficult Leadership and Talent Challenges

Great Leadership By Dan

I remember a client who was focused on, “How can we use 360-degree feedback to improve performance?” 360-degree feedback was too specific. As it turns out, 360-degree feedback was not part of the approach. In 2015 he was inducted into the Speaker Hall of Fame.

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Braithwaite Innovation Group Presents the July 2015 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Welcome to the July 2015 Leadership Development Carnival! Have you been given feedback that you need to improve your decision making? Managers often get poor grades from 360 degree feedback assessments in the areas of quality and timeliness of decisions.” Ready to dive in? If so, you are not alone.

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How to Tame This Attention Span Killing Device

Next Level Blog

In a 2015 study commissioned by Microsoft , researchers found that the average human attention span has dropped from 12 seconds in the year 2000 to 8 seconds in 2015. If you do, perhaps you’ll be comforted to know that, according to a 2015 study conducted by the National Safety Council , more than 80% of Americans agree with you.

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Respond: Leadership Is a Contact Sport

Marshall Goldsmith

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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Research: Why Ratings on Everything from Wine to Amazon Products Improve Over Time

Harvard Business Review

By 2015 the frequency of those scores had more than doubled: Nearly a third of all wines reviewed now receive a score above 90. We are also interested to see whether similar results would play out in promotion decisions and sequential annual 360-degree feedback processes.

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Most Doctors Have Little or No Management Training, and That’s a Problem

Harvard Business Review

And this has produced good results at a number of organizations, including the Mayo Clinic (two leaders shared the top job until 2015), Cigna Medical Group, and Carle Foundation Hospital. Through 360 degree feedback, he learned that certain elements of his leadership style that had previously been effective were no longer serving him well.