Reading Your Own 360 Feedback Report

If you are in receipt of your report the best approach to interpreting your report is to remember the purpose of doing the assessment feedback – it is to identify strengths and areas of development and indicate priorities for your improvement.  The assessment feedback report shows how direct reports, manager(s) and colleagues etc perceive your behaviour and the impact it has on them.  When looking at the data concentrate on recognising patterns in your data rather than examining in-depth the individual scores

When reading the report and analysing the data ask your self the following questions:

•         What are the key messages?

•         What are my strengths and development areas?

•         What strengths can I build on?

•         Why might a particular group have rated me as they have – are they best placed to comment on my performance in relation to this behaviour?

•         Is there agreement among rater groups and what are their similarities / differences?

•         How might individuals have arrived at their particular ratings?

•         Can I use the comments to understand what interaction(s) the raters might have been referring to?

Remember, the report is all about perception - while that is not necessarily the ‘truth’ it does reflect how someone sees you.

Having reviewed and interpreted your report you should be able to:

•         Identify three or four strengths and understand how you are going to build on them to improve performance.

•         Identify three or four development areas and understand how you are going to change your behaviour in order to improve performance.