Perhaps you struggle to come up with the right questions, or wonder if there’s a way to get more out of your employees. Fortunately, with 360 feedback, you can now get a better idea of an individual’s performance and where they fit in your organization. This article is going to explain how employees are taking control back in their evaluations, and how you can reap the benefits.

In the old days, employee evaluations were carried out on a formal, one-on-one basis where a manager, or HR boss would sit down across a desk from an employee, and ask the same pre-planned questions that everyone else got.

They’d be asked to rank themselves on performance, skills, training and abilities, and if they were lucky they might have been given access to development opportunities if any seemed suitable. The responses would be processed by the HR department, put on-file, and in most cases nothing more would be said about it until next time, when they were hauled back out again to judge the employee’s progress at the next evaluation meeting, often a year or more later.

Luckily, this is not the case anymore – wait, what? Are you still living in the past? With 360 degree evaluations, you no longer have to.

Now managers and colleagues are taking control of their employee evaluations, and getting a much wider perspective when it comes to their performance and behaviours in the workplace. This is because 360 evaluations can be customized to ask any questions you want, to a much wider set of people that an individual communicates with and interacts with on a regular basis, covering all elements of their job.

As a result, you’ll not only get a much more rounded idea of an employee’s performance, this review and feedback system also allows you to pinpoint an employee’s strengths, and work with them on their weaknesses so that any problems can be overcome, ultimately making your workforce stronger.

On a personal level, an individual can learn of weak spots they may not currently be aware of when interacting with their colleagues, which can help with their personal development and also strengthen work relationships.

Once an evaluation is completed, managers can work with employees to develop a clear plan that will help them overcome any obstacles or behaviours that are detrimental to their work, as well as implement any training that may be require to strengthen their skills. You may find that an individual may be suited to a different role, or that with a little more confidence in a certain area, they’d really be able to soar.

If you feel your organization could benefit from a 360 degree evaluation program, click here to get a free demo today, or contact us at 1-866-386-0280.