The Practical Leader

MAY 4, 2021

.” Like a cluster of GPS satellites triangulating our location, effective 360-degree feedback pulls together data from direct reports, managers, peers, and others to pinpoint a leader’s effectiveness. Ignorance may be bliss, but it’s deadly to leadership effectiveness.

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Modern Servant Leader

MAY 22, 2012

So it stands to reason that if “leadership is influence” (Maxwell), we have unrivaled leadership opportunity. You do not need a manager or employees reporting to you. Managing people has been the most universal sign of “leadership” in business. Leadership Constraints of People Management.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 27, 2017

My work with leaders sometimes involves inviting the leader’s direct reports to purposely kick him or her in the emotional keister. One of the most effective ways of doing this is having the leader go through a 360-degree feedback process, where the people they are leading rate the leader’s style and performance.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Listening is one of the most consistently lowest rated behaviors in 360 degree feedback assessments for managers. However, this is a management and leadership resource, so we’ll stick with listening in the context of a management skill. It’s a management disease – Poor Listener Syndrome (PLS)!

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Next Level Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

During that period, my company has run over a thousand 360 degree leadership assessments based on the success behaviors I highlight in my book, The Next Level. In reading all of those 360 degree feedback reports, I’ve never come across a comment from a direct report that says, “My boss is giving us too much work.”

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Experience to Lead

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In the dynamic world of business, leadership feedback stands as a cornerstone for team excellence and organizational growth. For leaders aiming to propel their teams to unparalleled success, the art of delivering impactful feedback is crucial. What is Leadership Feedback?

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Mike Cardus

MAY 24, 2011

Below is an actual Executive Coaching and Managerial Leadership Training + Development process I facilitated. Within these coaching times focused development, feedback and field work assignments were discussed and explored to develop the defined objectives. The methods and processes worked! Resolution. Coaching Underperformance.

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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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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

JANUARY 13, 2020

Ahmed had just received his latest 360-degree feedback report. He sat opposite me, stabbing his finger at the circular diagram on the desk between us and exclaimed “I don’t understand it, twelve months of concerted effort and I’ve gone backwards … BACKWARDS!”

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 7, 2015

Welcome to the July 2015 Leadership Development Carnival! This month brings a treat of 22 leadership posts to savor and share. Topics range from moral character to leadership lessons from World War II to stepping out of comfort zones. A major news anchor is suspended for “enhancing” his reporting experiences.

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The Practical Leader

JULY 26, 2023

” Their Perceptions Are My Leadership Reality Key to leadership development is understanding how others see me. The Clemmer Group’s long partnership with Zenger Folkman is based on their evidence-based approach to 360 assessment and strengths-based leadership development. ” The doctor said, “Good!

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Marshall Goldsmith

APRIL 8, 2017

The problem with this type of excuse is that we rarely get away with it — and it’s hardly an effective leadership strategy. After reviewing thousands of 360-degree feedback summaries, I have a feel for what qualities direct reports respect and don’t respect in their leaders. Blame my assistant, not me.”.

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Employees rate their manager’s ability to “effectively deal with people who undermine teamwork” dead last among 92 elements of effective leadership. Leaders often fear confronting people about poor teamwork, but people highly value honest feedback. Such feedback allows you to practice consultative coaching.

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Mike Cardus

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

The specific intervention included: 360 degree Feedback. Specific Exponent Leadership Process content sections were used: Goal Setting and Time Span. I observed Anthony while involved in management meetings and meetings with his staff, and provided feedback and support to both Anthony and his staff. Resolution.

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Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2010

It was easy to see from Nancy’s 360 report how well thought of she is by her colleagues and our conversation made it clear why she is. Using our online reporting system, we started reviewing her data by looking at the items that were rated highest by her colleagues. One of the calls was with a leader who I’ll call Nancy.

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Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

This process has produced measurable change in effectiveness (as evaluated by direct reports) with four CEOs that I have personally coached. In my work with senior leaders, I have found that one of the most common complaints of direct reports is that their executives do a poor job of providing coaching. by Marshall Goldsmith.

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Marshall Goldsmith

AUGUST 4, 2013

Great leaders encourage leadership development by openly developing themselves. Listen to what General Mills CEO Steve Sanger once told 90 of his colleagues: “As you all know, last year my team told me that I needed to do a better job of coaching my direct reports. I just reviewed my 360-degree feedback.

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Marshall Goldsmith

APRIL 11, 2016

A few years ago, former General Mills CEO Steve Sanger told nearly 100 of his colleagues: “As you all know, last year my team told me that I needed to do a better job of coaching my direct reports. I just reviewed my 360-degree feedback. I have been working on becoming a better coach for the past year or so.

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Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 7, 2013

We first get an agreement with our coaching clients and their managers on two key variables: 1) what are the key behaviors that will make the biggest positive change in increased leadership effectiveness and 2) who are the key stakeholders that should determine (one year later) if this change has occurred. That is just not what I do.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 5, 2014

If you are so brilliant that you can consistently judge your boss, and your boss is so stupid that he merits endless hours of critique, why do you report to the idiot? Coaching Employee Engagement Leadership' This way, you may eventually get a better job and a new boss. You demean yourself. This is not just true for employees.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 26, 2013

More business leaders today are turning to executive coaches to help them become: more personally fulfilled with their contributions more effective with direct reports, peers and other executives better able to coach their team members more flexible in challenging situations Susan C. My 360 degree feedback had several surprises.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 15, 2012

More business leaders today are turning to executive coaches to help them become: more personally fulfilled with their contributions more effective with direct reports, peers and other executives better able to coach their team members more flexible in challenging situations Susan C. My 360 degree feedback had several surprises.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 17, 2011

Listen to what General Mills CEO Steve Sanger recently told 90 of his colleagues: 'As you all know, last year my team told me that I needed to do a better job of coaching my direct reports. I just reviewed my 360- degree feedback. His leadership team reversed the company's poor image and engineered an amazing turnaround.

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Marshall Goldsmith

AUGUST 22, 2011

I may be the only executive educator who actually measures whether the participants in my leadership development courses actually do what I teach--and then measures if they are seen as becoming more effective leaders. I am not ashamed of these numbers.

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 31, 2012

I am probably the only executive educator that you have ever heard of who actually measures if the participants in my leadership development courses do what I teach – and then measures if they are seen as becoming more effective leaders. About 30% do absolutely nothing. I am not ashamed of these numbers. I am proud of these numbers!

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 22, 2012

More business leaders today are turning to executive coaches to help them become: more personally fulfilled with their contributions more effective with direct reports, peers and other executives better able to coach their team members more flexible in challenging situations Susan C. My 360 degree feedback had several surprises.

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 9, 2012

This is an extraordinary book on leadership from the experts in extraordinary leadership. That book was based on their extensive database of more than 200,000 multi-rater or 360-degree feedback reports describing 20,000 managers. Today’s search shows over 50,000! Role Model ; 2. Developing people.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 1, 2012

Most of us hate getting negative feedback, and we don't like to give it. I have reviewed summary 360-degree feedback reports for more than 50 companies. link] [link] [link] Marshall's Upcoming Schedule (This column has been modified from "Try FeedForward Instead of Feedback" in Coaching for Leadership, M.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 3, 2011

To Help Others, Start With Yourself General Mills CEO Steve Sanger once told 90 of his colleagues: 'Last year my team told me that I needed to do a better job of coaching my direct reports. I just reviewed my 360-degree feedback. Johnson & Johnson has successfully involved its executives in leadership development.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Most of us hate getting negative feedback, and we don't like to give it. I have reviewed summary 360-degree feedback reports for more than 50 companies. link] [link] [link] Marshall's Upcoming Schedule (This column has been modified from "Try FeedForward Instead of Feedback" in Coaching for Leadership, M.

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The Practical Leader

OCTOBER 24, 2012

We were discussing Zenger Folkman’s powerful research on the statistical correlations and interactions of leadership behaviors. I wrote about this evidence-based leadership approach last month in Leadership Cross-Training is Powerful and Revolutionary. This changed the tone of our discussion.

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Marshall Goldsmith

AUGUST 5, 2012

Most of us hate getting negative feedback, and we don’t like to give it. I have reviewed summary 360-degree feedback reports for more than 50 companies. This column has been modified from “Try FeedForward Instead of Feedback” in Coaching for Leadership, M. Goldsmith and L.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

But there is one thing we've personally seen that profoundly and consistently changes lives — what's generally referred to as the 360-degree feedback process. Maybe that's why our blood comes to a slow boil when we see a popular columnist arguing that 360-degree feedback programs fail.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2012

Take, for example, a team that reports that, as a group and as an organization, they are low in trust, not customer-focused and bureaucratic. Typically, insight into what to change can be created by concrete 360-degree feedback techniques, either via surveys, conversations or both.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2016

We already know that good leadership creates engaged employees and that leaders influence a variety of outcomes such as personnel turnover, customer satisfaction, sales, revenue, productivity, and so on. To answer this question, we examined 360-degree assessments of high-level managers and of their direct reports who were mid-level managers.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

In an effort to give equal time to the other side of the story, and to clarify some misconceptions, let me share with you the reasons why not getting 360-degree feedback may actually be fatal. Leadership effectiveness is in the eye of those who are led. That's certainly not objective data.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

If you are a manager with a direct report who is working with an external coach, there are several things you can do at the beginning of a coaching engagement to help make it successful: Set broad objectives and frame them positively. Be blunt with the coach – blunter than you would be with the coachee.

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