Despite vast improvements in technology, 'best' commercial practice and tomes of knowledge from business management 'gurus', 360 degree feedback is often still the preserve of the few.

We will often work with clients and find people who have never been through a 360 degree feedback appraisal in their entire career.

This is not to say that they have 'suffered' as a result of this, however, it makes for an interesting 360 feedback debrief when they see for the first time in black and white how others perceive them.

They are sometimes shocked, pleased, saddened and overjoyed (sometimes all at once!) to read this type of feedback for the first time, but it always re-inforces to us at Bowland Solutions, just how powerful 360 degree feedback can be whether it is a new experience for someone or not.

John