What is 360-degree feedback?
Asking for 360-degree feedback means asking for feedback from several people. This could be colleagues or your supervisor, but also external people, such as customers or suppliers. It is important to ask for 360 degree feedback because it gives you targeted feedback from different perspectives that you can use to develop yourself.
How does 360 feedback work?
It is easiest to prepare a questionnaire or feedback form containing questions about your development. Such a 360 degree feedback form or questionnaire is very easy to prepare and send through the online feedback tool of Treams. Using this tool, you can easily ask internal and external employees for 360 degree feedback. Do you need help asking these questions? We have listed a number of sample questions for you. We hope this will give you an example of 360 degree feedback. Especially if you are working with a 360 feedback form for the first time, this can of course be exciting. Perhaps you are even just used to 180 degree feedback, where only you and your supervisor are involved. So are you curious what 360 degree feedback is, what sample responses look like or what the meaning is? Then you're in the right place here. Read on and learn more about 360 degree feedback and a special 360 feedback tool.
When do you ask for this feedback?
To make asking for 360-degree feedback a success, as an organization you need to determine what the purpose of feedback is and when it will be used. For example, you can choose to ask for feedback at set times, such as after the completion of a project or at the end of the year prior to the performance review. The latter is increasingly done by organizations. Because who knows better how you are performing than the people you are working with at that moment? So here we move away from the 180-degree feedback questionnaire, form or method.
How do you solicit feedback through a tool and what is 360-degree feedback used for?
Asking for 360-degree feedback is not something of recent years. Within several organizations, feedback has been asked for years. However, this used to be done through an offline form. Nowadays, it is much easier to create a 360 degree questionnaire and send it through an online feedback tool. This allows you to send the form to different people with the click of a button, and collect all the feedback from different angles in one place. By the way, this application is suitable for mobile and desktop devices and for people inside and outside your organization. In addition, a tool like Treams , through different feedback sample questions, helps with asking the right feedback questions. So use Treams' feedback tool as a basis for your 360 feedback form and be guaranteed interesting insights.
Tips for introducing 360-degree assessment or feedback
There are of course different feedback forms and ways to implement Treams' 360 feedback tool. Below we give you some tips to get acquainted with the 360 degree feedback tool and the overall 360 degree method.
Make giving feedback approachable Basically, people are always open to giving each other feedback. It is therefore important to make the entire process of asking and giving 360-degree feedback as easy as possible. This can be done very well through a mobile feedback app, or desktop application. This way, you can send a feedback form or give feedback at any time of the day, from wherever you want. Start asking for feedback! Giving feedback is very scary. After all, we prefer to do everything right. The fear of feedback can be removed very easily by focusing on asking for feedback instead of giving feedback. Help employees ask the right question Asking feedback is exciting. After all, it is about yourself. It is therefore very difficult to ask the right questions. Help employees with this. For example, explain to them when to ask for feedback, that they can ask questions that start with how, what, why, where, who, when or why, and tell them that it is good to always start the conversation. Treams helps you ask the right question through more than 100 sample questions.
Sample feedback questions to ask
Asking 360-degree feedback is not always easy. To give you a hand, we would like to give you examples of questions you can ask.
Do you feel you can share all your ideas and thoughts with me? Why yes/no? Do you feel that my goals contribute to the company goals and strategy? Why yes/no? Why is my work important to the organization, organizational goals and strategy? What did you like best about [event X/presentation Y]? Do I give you enough security to disagree with me? Why yes/don't
Well would you like more examples of questions for 360 degree feedback? Then download our feedback sample questionnaire. Of course, you can also just get started right away with Treams' feedback tool !