Tailored Leadership Programmes and use of 360 degree feedback

What does effective leadership look like?

You can no longer rely on transactional management skills alone to run organisations.  It is now widely recognised that the most effective leaders are those who are able to draw on a range of leadership behaviours.  They need to be able to:

• create, promote and implement a clear vision.
• engage with others, inspire and gain their commitment.
• think creatively and challenge assumptions.
• work collaboratively and in partnership, influence and negotiate with others.
• hold to account and be held to account for delivery and corporate governance.

What is 360 degree feedback?

To be effective, leaders need to work well with a diverse range of people, including their immediate team, their peers, clients or customers, external partners and other stakeholders.  They may need to work in different ways – from direct management, through indirect influencing, to engaging and gaining commitment. 

The style you use with one individual may not work with another.  How can you tell whether or not you are having a positive impact on others?  Maybe you are achieving results in the short-term.  But are you getting the best from all of your work relationships?

360 degree feedback can help you by providing structured and in-depth information about how you are coming across to a range of other people compared with your own self-assessment.  It is a potentially powerful process – and it requires careful and sensitive handling.  The potential benefits of using 360 degree feedback are that it:

• raises the individual’s self-awareness of their strengths and areas for development.
• facilitates the involvement of people at all levels in the organisation in providing constructive feedback.
• provides a ‘measurement’ against which to review changes in individual behaviour and organisation effectiveness.
• provides people with a common language for identifying development needs across the organisation.

What Salomons can do for you

Developing leadership capabilities does not happen over night – or on one-off training events.  It requires an approach that is relevant to the context in which individual leaders are working. Adopting new behaviours requires sustained learning, practice and reinforcement through constructive feedback, including 360 degree feedback.

We work with our clients first to understand their context and to interpret the challenges faced by their leaders.  Once we have that contextual understanding, we develop a tailored programme of leadership development that is aligned appropriately both to organisational need and any existing provision of development. 

We can advise on content, drawing on our expertise in leadership and management development theory and our experience of using psychometrics, diagnostic and 360 degree feedback tools.  Our team includes consultants who are qualified to administer and provide one to one feedback on a number of 360 degree feedback tools including:

• Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire (EIQ)
• Transformational Leadership Qualities (TLQ)
• The NHS Leadership Qualities Framework (LQF)

We can also draw on substantial experience of a range of approaches to learning and development including:  working in groups, theory input, one to one feedback, self-reflection, action learning sets, coaching and mentoring, and peer supervision.

We have a strong reputation for leadership development across health and social care organisations.

For an initial conversation please call our team on either 01892 507696 or 0141 548 8140 or email ask@salomons.org.uk