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You know a 360-degree assessment provides valuable feedback on your job performance from multiple perspectives. But do you know how best to interpret it so you get the most out of your 360 results?
Benchmarks® 360 Degree Assessments
Our pioneering suite of 360 leadership assessments will measure and benchmark the critical competencies for success at your organization. Use personalized 360 feedback to help individuals recognize strengths, identify areas for improvement, and set meaningful goals.
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Our Benchmarks® 360-Degree Assessment Tools
Benchmarks for Managers™ is our flagship, comprehensive 360 assessment for mid- to upper-level managers that measures 16 critical leadership competencies, as well as 5 possible career derailers. This in-depth analysis of observable behaviors enables managers to measure and benchmark feedback on strengths and weaknesses in the areas most needed for success.
Benchmarks® for Executives™ is a 360-degree assessment designed to address the specific issues of executives. Unlike other 360 assessments, our Benchmarks® for Executives™ 360 specifically includes only senior-level leaders in the normative base, enabling you to measure and benchmark the skills and behaviors most needed at the top of the organization.
Measure what matters most at your organization with Benchmarks® by Design™, our fully customizable 360 leadership assessment that can be tailored to reflect the competencies most important to your organization. Choose from our extensive, research-based library of more than 90 competencies and derailment factors to design a targeted 360 assessment for leaders at all levels of your organization.
About the Benchmarks® Suite
Benchmarks® 360 Leadership Assessments Suite
At CCL, we’re proud to have pioneered the use of 360 assessments for leader development. Supported by more than 50 years of research, our industry-leading Benchmarks® suite of 360 assessments are a powerful resource to help organizations build self-awareness, create a common leadership language, and provide a consistent 360 feedback process across multiple leader levels.
Benchmarks® isn’t your typical employee performance survey or 360 assessment; it’s a thorough evaluation that provides the whole picture around the critical skills needed for success. We offer:
- Pre-made assessments by leader level: Benchmarks® for Managers™ and Benchmarks® for Executives™
- As well as the customizable Benchmarks® by Design™, with numerous options that can be modified for your organization’s unique context for maximum flexibility.
Benefits of Our Benchmarks® 360-Degree Assessments
Supported by more than 50 years of research, we are a top-ranked world leader in assessments. Our industry-leading Benchmarks® 360 assessments are the choice of thousands of organizations because they’re:
- Evidence-based, with normative data drawing from one of the world’s largest leadership assessment databases
- Reliable, with strict confidentiality, providing specific feedback on critical leadership skills imperative to their level and function in the organization
- Normative, helping contextualize and compare results to other similarly positioned leaders around the world
- Actionable, with clear insights and included support for setting goals and planning next steps
- Globally relevant, with multiple languages available
Take 360 Assessments Further With CCL Compass™
Purchase of our Benchmarks® 360 assessments includes access to CCL Compass™ — our digital tool that instantly turns 360 assessment data into actionable insights and immediate next steps.
This online tool enables individuals to transition immediately from reviewing data to setting goals, creating action plans, and making positive changes in key areas. It analyzes, interprets, and presents results from 360 assessments in a concise and understandable way, so the impact of 360-degree feedback goes even further, offering:
- Convenience: On-demand answers to leadership development questions
- Clarity: Streamlined development goal-planning with precision and simplicity
- Effectiveness: Improved motivation and better outcomes for both leaders and executive coaches
- Accountability: Plan visibility and tracking enables sharing progress updates with others
What Our Clients Are Saying
As a top-ranked provider of leadership development, we’ve shaped the industry for more than 50 years and are trusted globally to design and deliver solutions that enable individuals and organizations to reach their full potential. Clients around the world — including 2/3 of the Fortune 1000 — have partnered with us to deliver 360 leadership assessments, driving remarkable transformations at their organizations.
But don’t just take our word for it — take theirs.
As part of a customized leadership development solution, Barclaycard included our 360 assessments and other personality measurement tools to help participants gain insights into their individual strengths, challenges, and behavior patterns. Participants learned strategies for giving and receiving feedback, influencing, communicating, and leveraging social capital as a leadership asset.
Working with Boehringer Ingelheim, we developed a multi-phased leadership development initiative focused on key competencies critical to the company’s future growth. Part of the initiative included having participants complete a number of 360-degree assessments to identify strengths they could leverage and competency gaps they needed to close.
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Find the Right 360 Degree Assessment for Your Leaders
Our experts are here to help. Let’s discuss how our pioneering, industry-leading suite of Benchmarks® 360 leadership assessments can support and extend your organization’s development initiatives.
360 Leadership Assessments: Research & Resources
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Frequently Asked Questions About Our 360 Assessments
What are the benefits of the Benchmarks® 360 assessments?
CCL’s Benchmarks® 360 assessments are invaluable because they help leaders become more aware of their own strengths and opportunities for development and measure critical leadership competencies for success, via comprehensive feedback from others. Additionally, they enhance individual development by allowing leaders to compare their results with leaders in similar roles, drawing insights from one of the world’s largest leadership assessment databases.
What is a 360-degree assessment?
A 360-degree assessment is a method that systematically collects feedback about an individual’s performance from peers, direct reports, colleagues, and superiors within the organization. Overall, it provides a comprehensive, 360-degree view of a leader’s strengths and opportunities for growth. Learn more about how to implement an organizational 360 feedback initiative.
What is a Benchmarks® assessment?
A Benchmarks® assessment is a leadership assessment tool pioneered by the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL)® that helps leaders start the process of feedback-based individual development. Our suite of research-backed Benchmarks® 360 assessments provide leaders with personalized feedback on specific critical competencies that are vital to their success. In addition, our assessments do what their name suggests by providing a benchmark of how a leader is doing, as compared to a meaningful norm group. Our Benchmarks® 360 assessments include access to CCL Compass™ as well, which helps leaders turn personal data into actionable insights and immediate next steps.
More questions? Our experts are here to help. Let’s have a conversation!
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