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360-Degree Leadership Feedback: Multiple Voices, Multiple Views
May 21, 2013
I first heard about 360-degree feedback in the mid-1990’s when I served as an HR director in a large transportation company. At that time, multi-rater leadership feedback was a somewhat radical idea which was being promoted at GE under Jack Welch. Welch struggled with effective leadership across his vast empire and used 360-degree data as a way to evaluate a leader’s effectiveness on more than just their business results.
In subsequent years, I’ve seen interest wax and wane for 360-feedback systems. Some organizations use 360-degree leadership feedback in partnership with their performance appraisal systems on an annual basis. Others steer clear of it, feeling that multi-raters systems are cumbersome to implement and produce mixed value. In my opinion, the truth lies somewhere in between these two views.
The Power of Peers for Team Development
May 16, 2013
We tend to think of acquiring new skills or knowledge as an individualistic endeavor. From the neat little rows of desks in our elementary schools to the massive lecture halls of universities, learning means picking up a book, taking a class or trying something new. Often overlooked is using peers as agents of learning and team development.
Workforce Learning Newsletter
April-May 2013
Learning can come from unexpected places. My son Evan is graduating in May (yeah!) with a degree in civil engineering. In the last two years of his degree program he made frequent reference to being part of a study group. I never understood or appreciated the power of his study group until recently when a number of them competed in the American Society of Civil Engineers’ Student Steel Bridge Competition. Evan’s team represented Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. They worked from September 2012 to April 2013 to design, plan and build a structurally sound, reduced-scale steel bridge. The ODU team had outstanding results: they placed 4th, beating schools that are bigger, better funded, and more prestigious in the engineering community.
Workforce Learning Catalog
Dr. Alice Waagen’s Workforce Learning Management Development Series offers organizations the opportunity to provide a progressive, integrated management development program to their managers and team leaders. The program can be customized to the specific needs of any organization. By offering the program to intact leadership teams, the series can also serve a secondary goal of creating a more cohesive team with shared language and experiences in the classroom.
Ask Alice: Advice for Leaders
Investment for Managers
Question: I am a financial manager in a large accounting firm. I’ve been with this firm for most of my career. Lately, I’ve been feeling like I’m in some kind of a rut. I see the same people every day and after a while, it is hard to think of something original to discuss. Frankly I’m bored.
About Workforce Learning
Workforce Learning, LLC is a leadership development and management training company that provides managers and C-level executives with the skills and knowledge they need to build a more productive work environment. Since founding the firm in 1997, Alice Waagen, PhD, has developed highly effective leadership programs and coaching workshops that teach the people in charge how to motivate and inspire employees. For more information, and to book a workshop or training session, contact Alice.