Great leaders are made not born.

The quality of leadership makes a difference in the success of an organization. Great leaders are made, not born. 

There is a process to follow to become a great leader or to grow great leaders in your organization. We know the process, and we can help you follow that process yourself or install that process in your company. 

It all starts with awareness of a need. Someone once said, “We don’t know what we don’t know.” It’s true, and 360-degree feedback is the way to find out. 

We know from research that when individuals self-assess, they are less accurate than are their direct reports, their peers or their bosses. While we’re pretty good a figuring out our own strengths, we don’t do as well with weaknesses, and we’re particularly prone to miss weaknesses that have to do with personal or interpersonal skills. Facilitated 360-degree feedback helps leaders better understand how they are seen by others and become motivated to become better.

Awareness is the first step in the six-step process that leads to lasting change, and there is no better way to create it than through skillfully facilitated 360-degree feedback.  Our team of experienced feedback providers have delivered over 2,000 feedback sessions, using competency-based or practice-based methods for people on five continents.  We’ve done that work for organizations where we were employed; we’ve done it for client organizations; and we’ve done it for executive MBA students in top-rated business schools.

Gap analysis identifies those competencies or practices that are high in importance but middle or low in performance, and from that group 2-3 are selected for development.  Effective results-oriented development plans are crafted, including highly practical resources that can be used on the job, where the leader will use their team as a “learning lab”, trying new approaches in the process of gaining new skill. 

This very practical and affordable process is something we often call Leadership Development for the Real World. It’s not about attending a conference or reading a book. Both are fine but change and improvement comes from actually trying out new approaches, and that’s the process we support for leaders motivated to change.

We’ve seen many people achieve significant change following this method.  If you’re ready to learn some new approaches that will pay off, or if you’re interested to learn more about this approach for your organization, please be in touch.

Phone: 770-500-5815
Email:  Clarke@AtlantaLeadership.com