The People, Process, & Progress Podcast - Use 360 Feedback to Measure Your Effectiveness as a Leader | Foundations Friday 80

Episode Date: January 13, 2023

Sharing the concept of 360-degree feedback as a way to gather objective and anonymous feedback from your teams. Then, you can use this feedback to do continuous improvement on yourself as a leader.Check out this great write-up about 360-feedback from qualtrics at https://www.qualtrics.com/experience-management/employee/360-degree-feedback/Have a planStay informedGet involvedGodspeed

Hey everybody, welcome to Foundations Friday on the KevTalks podcast. I am your host, Kevin Pinnell. I hope your Friday is going really well. Mine started with some jiu-jitsu, a little pop in my ankle that happens now and then, and then the rest of the workday, which, you know, everything's easier after some jiu-jitsu. So I wanted to share this Friday just kind of honestly a summary of the episode that actually came out yesterday, so a little bit late this week for the full episode, apologies, talking about some behaviors and expectations from effective and ineffective leaders.

And just something to think about as we go into the weekend that I've found helpful and I've heard from other folks is to help evaluate yourself because if I look at myself, I try and be as objective as possible and supplant my ego and say, oh, I'm doing this well or not, but that's hard to do. So a tool that I suggest that you all use that I've used is to get 360 degree feedback. Basically, that's like a four question survey, make it anonymous, send it to your team, send it to your business partners, your stakeholders, folks that aren't directly working with you, but that have, that you've worked with before and ask them what's going

well, what should I keep doing? What am I not doing so well? What should I change? What other feedback do you have for me? And you know, is there anything else that you would like to see me work on or focus on just something like that. And there's a bunch of templates and questions you can use, but getting that 360 degree feedback, I'm asking for that a few months into being the acting program manager for a big program and opening a new building. And I find it very helpful. And I think instead of just doing it once a year or once a quarter or twice a year, like some folks do as part of their overall kind of,

you know, I don't know, not quite your review, but I think doing it during the course of a project or program is very helpful because then you can pivot and adjust while you're still going instead of maybe having to wait after you've done a couple projects or something like that. So try and be the most effective leader you can be.

I know I'm always working on that. And a good way to objectively get feedback to do that is the 360-degree feedback method. Google it. Get a bunch of questions. Use whatever system you have. I use Microsoft Forms. It's really easy. Send it out to your people and give them a timeline too.

Hey, I'd like this in a week or two. And then work on improvements. I'll keep working on improvements here on the podcast really excited about some of the episodes coming up in the next couple weeks one with judd baker who you may have heard on the jocko podcast talking about civil war leadership we talk about what were the leadership decisions that led up to the battle of gettysburg in the civil war really interesting to hear about some of the most famous generals that, that, you know, we've all heard about of Jackson and Lee and Meade and hooker and some of

these other folks. And then after that, the week following, I get to got to talk to someone that was, was my project management office director about how to stand up an effective and efficient project management office. So a great conversation with Katie McCullough. So look forward to those, but thank you all for being here on this Friday. Remember, have a plan, stay informed and get involved.