What is Leadership Feedback?
Leadership Feedback is a tool based on modern leadership research. It allows employees to provide regular feedback to their manager on the most critical aspects of leadership. With the tool, the leader receives feedback on his or her ability to coach and listen, work strategically and operationally, and his or her ability to drive change and development. The feedback tool consists of a web application that is built based on your organisation. Measurement takes place three to four times a year. Employees answer 12 questions, and the survey takes about five minutes. The results are measured on a scale from 0 to 100. The closer to 100, the more successful the leader is in meeting the team’s needs and desires.
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“We have used Leadership Feedback in a pilot for parts of the organization to get a structured feedback process going. It is a tool that is both easy to understand and to use. It provides a pulse on how the leader is perceived by the team and how the team sees their leader. Through the results, you can see which specific actions you should work on. Our employees appreciate that they have the opportunity to give both a grading and written feedback on certain questions.”
Anna Mindelöf, CHRO at Fenix Outdoor Group.
About Leadership Feedback
The tool does not assess how good or bad the manager is, but how well the leadership style matches the needs of the team. Through the results, leaders can see if they are over- or underutilizing certain aspects of their leadership. To help the leader develop in the desired direction, the feedback tool also provides tips on what they can do to become more successful in their leadership.
For the manager
Leadership Feedback supports the individual leader and helps them develop in a simple and effective way. The tool is adapted to today’s rapidly changing organizations, where leaders need concrete tips and clear guidance on how to drive engagement in their team. Through the results of the Leadership Feedback, leaders can see if they are over- or underutilizing certain aspects of their leadership and adapt it to what the team needs right now. For leadership to be effective, it needs to be adapted to the needs and wants of the team.
For employees
Through Leadership Feedback, employees can quickly, easily and anonymously provide feedback on how their manager’s leadership is working right now. As a result, employees have a leader who adapts their leadership to the current needs of the team. Through effective leadership, managers can build high-performing teams that are highly committed to their mission and to each other. These teams deliver beyond expectations and their success can be explained by the fact that the group becomes bigger than the individual by utilizing the competencies of the whole team.
FAQ about Leadership Feedback
Here are the answers to the most frequently asked questions.
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The result of effective leadership is that teams perform better. Leadership Feedback measures how effectively leaders in an organization drive their teams.
Leadership Feedback is a completely new tool on the market that gives users a modern and data-driven perspective on leadership development and decision-making.
Unlike tools that have been used for over 30 years—such as 360-degree assessments and leadership training programs—Leadership Feedback is a tool that can become a long-term part of your organization while not being time-consuming to use.
By using Leadership Feedback regularly, you ensure continuous development of your leaders and, in turn, growing effectiveness in your teams.
The tool is adapted to today’s rapidly changing organizations, where leaders need concrete tips and clear guidance on how to drive engagement within their teams.
An important point that distinguishes Leadership Feedback from other, more traditional methods is that all employees in an organization can participate in the feedback process, rather than only a selected few.
It is up to each organization to decide how often the measurement should be carried out, but a suggested frequency is two to five times per year. For managers who lead shorter projects – for example, with a temporary or cross-functional project team – the measurements can be conducted more frequently.
Yes, employees are completely anonymous. In the majority of the questions, employees rate the leader from different perspectives, but in two of the questions there is also an opportunity for the respondent to provide written responses. If an employee wishes to remain anonymous, it is important that no personal information is included that could be linked to a specific individual.
The results are presented from two different perspectives:
- For the organization/decision-makers, the results are presented as scores to provide a quick and easy overview. What is working? What is not working? The results help decision-makers make strategic decisions through increased transparency.
- For the user (the leader), the results are presented in the form of tips and suggested actions on how the leader can become more effective. The tool provides each leader with a development plan containing feedback that is easy to act on.
The questions include, among other things, assessments of how well the leader involves others in decision-making, focuses on short-term challenges, plans and organizes work, and delegates tasks. Employees answer a total of 14 questions, of which 12 are rating questions and two consist of open text fields where the employee can provide their own response.
Measuring effectiveness at a single point in time in an organization never tells the whole story, regardless of which tool you use. A Leadership Feedback measurement provides a snapshot of what the team needs right now. Since those needs can – and most likely will – change depending on what is happening both within and outside the organization, it is important to conduct continuous measurements throughout the year (at least three to four times per year).
The result becomes a compass for the individual leader, who between measurements has the opportunity to make any necessary behavioral changes based on the team’s feedback. The organization and decision-makers, in turn, gain the ability to see how leadership evolves over time and can make strategic decisions accordingly.
Leadership Feedback is based on what modern research has taught us about the definition of effective leadership and how it should be measured. The tool is grounded in research and theories on leadership linked to organizational success, what makes a team high-performing, and how overused and underused behaviors impact leadership effectiveness.
The tool is designed to be used in all types of organizations – small and large, flat and hierarchical. Leadership Feedback serves as an important tool for organizations that, for example, want to increase employee engagement, are undergoing a change process, and wish to work with leadership development.
Leadership Feedback supports the individual leader and aims to make their development both easier and more effective. The tool helps each leader understand what they need to do to lead in a way that meets the team’s current needs.
From an organizational perspective, Leadership Feedback facilitates various HR and business decisions. Decision-makers can more easily see which areas the organization is strong or weak in, identify any training initiatives that need to be implemented, and determine what needs to be done to develop in a shared direction.
