Seeing clearly our strengths and weaknesses as well as understanding how we are perceived is the basis for any leadership development plan. We cannot grow if we don’t understand the work we have to do. A clearly-articulated, well-rounded performance review is the basis for this plan.
“The Reboot 360 process is amazing. The clarity and honesty of this is excellent. As a board member, these are the best 360 performance reports I’ve seen.”
Fred Wilson
Union Square Ventures
“Reboot’s 360 review process was thorough and incisive, and it resulted in a report full of helpful insights for our portfolio CEO and the business. It was particularly useful to me and the other board members, as it provided a framework for us to use in helping the CEO grow as a leader, and measuring his progress against objectives. I’ve since brought Reboot into other companies I work with.”
Matt Harris
Managing Director, Bain Capital Ventures
“This was the first time I’ve done a 360 as CEO and Reboot blew it out of the water. They interviewed more than a dozen people and really helped me understand my strengths and blind spots as a leader–there were surprises on both sides. I’ve since been able to leverage the feedback to amplify the good stuff and attack my blind spots head on. I’m grateful for the opportunity and encourage other leaders to do the same.”
Isaac Oates
CEO of JustWorks
“Strongly recommend the Reboot 360 experience for CEOs and senior leaders. The most effective way I’ve experienced for deeply understanding your superpowers and weaknesses. Provides a great foundation for personal and team growth.“
Matt Munson
CEO & Co-founder of Twenty20
360 Performance Reviews are a valuable way to get solid feedback from your team, co-founders, board members, and other stakeholders within your organization. A 360 helps you make course corrections in your leadership that support your growth and the growth of your company. The compiled feedback report allows you to see things that are working, not working, and things that need to change. Our process culminates to help you identify viable action steps with the support of your coach.
It’s often said that feedback is a gift. But what’s less admitted is that it’s often a gift we’d rather send back. And yet our leadership depends on our seeing what is true and what is not. Discernment–the ability to cut through our own delusion with fierce honesty–is one of the qualities that separate leaders from managers.
Seeing clearly our strengths and weaknesses as well as understanding how we are perceived is the basis for any leadership development plan. We cannot grow if we don’t understand the work we have to do.
A clearly-articulated, well-rounded performance review is the basis for this plan. This active manifestation of what we call “radical self-inquiry” is the best way to start rebooting your leadership.
We’ve found that 360 reviews administered via questionnaire and producing ratings and numbers aren’t as effective as feedback-rich processes. Our process is high-touch:
One reason companies use a questionnaire/quantitative system for feedback collection is to better manage administering 360s quickly and affordably across large worker populations. Multiple choice questionnaires are easy to score and (if properly created) can be reliable tools (and yes, there are some good ones out there). However, in order to be effective, the chosen instrument must align with a clearly defined leadership model (with competencies mapped to specific on-the-job behaviors) that supports the context of your company (values, vision, culture, etc). Additionally quantitative assessments need to be tested for things like test-retest consistency, internal consistency, and inter-rater agreement.
Interview-based 360s are obviously more labor-intensive than quantitative questionnaires, but they have some great advantages for our client base (typically startup founders in high growth, rapidly changing organizations). Interviews can yield more nuanced information about a leader’s impact within an organization. We can ask follow-up questions and draw out specific examples. We can clarify statements to get to more helpful levels of specificity. As we establish rapport during the interview process, reviewers will share honestly things they might not reveal in an online questionnaire. Our method supports the depth and highly personal nature of our client relationships.
We only perform 360 reviews as part of an ongoing coaching relationship. Here’s why: