360° Feedback

Our Personnel Decisions International (PDI) 360° degree feedback tool provides psychological and human resources services to enhance individual and organizational effectiveness.  This confidential process is used specifically for development.  Participants will learn about others' perceptions, not just that of the boss, of their performance on a full spectrum of skills.

The current mandate around leadership development crosses all borders and industries: for businesses to achieve strategic goals, adapt to change, and stay competitive, leaders must be developed for many different organizational purposes, levels, and timeframes.The PROFILOR®, one of the world's most tested and utilized 360 feedback tools, can make a winning difference for your organization by providing the insights you need to develop and optimize human capital. All PDI PROFILOR instruments mirror the skills critical to success in today’s ever-changing business environment, thereby focusing employees on what is needed to improve performance.

Description

The PROFILOR is a 360 feedback tool used for development purposes. It collects feedback from a variety of sources (self, managers, peers, direct reports, internal customers, and others) regarding an individual’s performance. Feedback reports provide practical, well-rounded insights into job performance, strengths, and development needs, as well as paint a comprehensive picture of the specific skills that an individual needs to develop to enhance performance. It also provides a basis for creating an individualized, actionable development plan.

Nine research-based standard models focus on competencies that employees need to be successful now and in the future. Many of these models have norms that can be used as a comparison to external benchmarks.The PROFILOR can also be customized to reflect an organization’s terminology or to fit its competency model. In fact, more than 50 percent of PDI’s 360 solutions are tailored to meet client needs.

Data collection and report options are also flexible, ensuring the highest levels of convenience and relevance to the organization. Regardless of the form it takes, the feedback report includes development suggestions, resources, and references to the Successful Manager’s Handbook.The executive model references the Successful Executive’s Handbook.

How It Works

Five conditions are necessary for meaningful development to occur: insight, motivation, capabilities, real-world practice, and accountability. Because The PROFILOR provides information into what participants should focus on to further development, it’s a natural starting point for the creation of a development plan.

The PROFILOR begins with a kickoff session in which participants are provided with an overview of the process and an understanding of the kind of information that will be obtained.They are asked to identify individuals (respondents) they would like to have rate their performance, and those individuals are asked to complete The PROFILOR questionnaire. Results are provided in a feedback report that features a graphical and numerical compilation of the evaluation.The report identifies the individual’s strongest competencies and those most in need of development.

A PROFILOR-certified coach goes through the feedback report with the participant and discusses competencies and development needs. Based on that input, the participant creates a development plan.

To measure the progress of development and to bring additional accountability into the process,The PROFILOR can be paired with Time2Change®, a change measurement tool.The participant completes Time2Change six to twelve months after The PROFILOR to measure the degree to which development has occurred, and its impact felt in the organization.