360 degree feedback can be very personal - often our clients are very concerned with anonymity and security of access.  That can make sense - feedback feels something that should be confidential.

What also makes sense is that we need to share the 360 feedback with someone if we want to learn from it, debate it, and get context for it.

Often the feedback is shared with the manager - organisations often enforce this.  We regularly see clients that are looking for an external person (either from outside of the organisation or outside of the line) to debrief the feedback.

Strong managers will share their feedback with their team.  An open approach to reviewing the report encourages the team to see the manager as capable of taking feedback and discussing it positively and constructively.

Paper reports are excellent for this (as a person with a foot in the IT camp I am forever amazed by what paper can do!).  The standard IT way of handling portability is to use a PDF format and we recently enhanced our 360 degree appraisal software to allow the reports to be produced and saved in PDF formats.  Our recipients can now email their feedback to others and be confident in how the report will be presented to them.  As ever, we didn't do this because we could, we did it because sharing 360 feedback is a positive, useful exercise and our software should support it.

Brendan