360 Degree Feedback
How Well Are Your Leaders Really Performing?
Better performance starts with knowing what to do differently. 360 degree feedback helps people understand how their behavior comes across to the people they work with.
Targeted Feedback® is a competency-based 360 degree feedback tool that gives individuals a clearer view of their strengths and specific behaviors to improve. Group reports help organizations identify shared development needs across roles and levels, from individual contributors to executives. An interactive AI report assistant helps participants explore what their feedback means and where to go next.
Tailor Development Plans for High Performance
Knowing you need to improve a competency is a starting point. Understanding which behaviors to change makes development practical.
Targeted Feedback helps participants bring a specific focus to their development plans and conversations with a manager or coach. For example, detailed feedback on delegation can help a leader identify what to practice, while DDI’s development solutions provide relevant learning to support that change on the job.
Clear Insights from 360 Feedback Data
Feedback can raise as many questions as it answers. AI summaries highlight the main themes so participants have a clear place to begin.
The AI report assistant lets them go deeper. Through voice or text, participants can ask questions about their results and explore where their own perceptions differ from others’ experiences. After exploring their results, participants can get coaching on practical next steps for development.
Focus Development Across Your Organization
A group average doesn’t tell the whole story. Targeted Feedback group reports reveal shared development needs and differences in the specific behaviors leaders and their teams need to strengthen.
Use those patterns to focus programs on common needs and identify where individual coaching could add value. You can target learning investments while keeping development relevant to each person.
Easily Build 360 Surveys Around Your Development Priorities
Start with a standard survey for the role or level, then select the DDI competencies most relevant to your goals. Our updated competency library includes behaviors that reflect how leadership is changing with AI, automation, and new ways of working.
Keep surveys moving without chasing every response. Targeted Feedback makes it easy to tailor launch and follow-up communications, automate reminders, and track completion across surveys and groups.
Self-Service
DDI trains your team to build and run surveys, with ongoing support.
Shared
DDI builds your surveys, and your team manages the process, with ongoing support.
Full Support
DDI creates and administers your surveys, with support tailored to your needs.
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Frequently Asked Questions About 360 Degree Feedback
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What is a 360 degree feedback review?
A 360 degree feedback review is a developmental tool that collects feedback on a person’s behaviors from multiple perspectives, such as peers, direct reports, managers, and the individual themselves. It provides a fuller picture of how their actions are perceived. Targeted Feedback® is DDI’s competency-based 360 feedback tool designed to deliver these insights across roles and levels.
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What is a simple example of 360 degree feedback?
A simple example might ask a manager’s team members, peers, and the manager's own leader to rate how clearly the manager communicates goals, while the manager rates themselves on the same behavior. The results might reveal differences between how clearly the manager believes they communicate and how others experience their communication, helping identify specific development needs.
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What are the advantages of 360 degree feedback?
360 degree feedback helps people uncover development needs and hidden strengths by comparing self-perceptions with how others see them. It builds self-awareness and can motivate behavior change. Individual and group insights help organizations focus development plans and identify shared needs to guide broader development programs.
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How can organizations implement a 360 degree feedback system?
Organizations should begin by defining clear goals and selecting role-appropriate competencies with observable behaviors. Targeted Feedback® offers standard survey templates that organizations can tailor by selecting relevant DDI competencies. Choose respondents who interact regularly with each participant, collect ratings and comments, and use the reports to support development conversations and inform individual or group development plans.
