Benchmarks® 360 Assessments

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Our extensively researched, world-class suite of 360 assessments will help you measure the competencies critical for success at your organization.

Give your team a more complete picture of themselves — the foundation for any development effort. A method of systematically collecting perspectives about an individual’s performance from peers, direct reports, colleagues, and superiors, the 360-degree assessment approach provides a 360° view of a leader’s strengths and opportunities for growth.

Chad Orth
Director of Sales
Darden

“I credit a 360 assessment that I did through CCL with giving me the insights and tools to develop some of my soft skills. And, importantly, it gave me a platform to truly understand my strengths so that I can continue to build on them.”

Benchmarks® 360 Assessments Suite

Our industry-leading Benchmarks® assessment suite includes 4 research-based 360-degree assessment instruments with a consistent reporting format to help organizations create a common leadership language and consistent feedback process across multiple leader levels.

Provides leaders with feedback on specific or critical leadership skills imperative to the function of their role in the organization
Helps individuals contextualize and compare their results to other leaders in similar roles
Starts the process of feedback-based individual development

Benefits of Our Industry-Leading Benchmarks® 360 Assessments

Since pioneering the use of assessments and feedback in leadership development, we’ve become a top-ranked world leader in assessments that produce valid, reliable, and actionable results. Supported by more than 50 years of research, our Benchmarks® 360 assessments are the choice of industry-leading organizations because they provide:

Superior-quality normative data from one of the world’s largest leadership assessment databases
Numerous customization options for maximum flexibility and ease of use
Strict confidentiality for more accurate feedback
Global relevance and multiple languages available

CCL Compass™ Takes Your 360 Assessment Insights Further

Our Benchmarks® 360 assessments also include access to CCL Compass™ to turn personal data into actionable insights and immediate next steps. This online tool analyzes, interprets, and presents Benchmarks® 360-degree assessment results in a concise and understandable way — so individuals can transition immediately from reviewing data to setting goals, creating action plans, and making positive changes. With CCL Compass™, the impact of your 360-degree assessment feedback goes even further, offering:

Convenience: On-demand answers to your 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 progress-tracking to share progress with coaches and others

Benchmarks® 360-Degree Assessment Solutions for Every Leader Level

Benchmarks® for Executives™

The challenges faced by executives at the top levels in an organization can differ greatly from those in the middle.

Benchmarks© for Executives™ is a 360-degree assessment designed to address the specific leadership issues of executives. Unlike other assessments with normative data encompassing all users, Benchmarks© for Executives™ includes only the very top-level leaders in the normative base and measures leadership behaviors needed at the top.

For C-suite leaders

Benchmarks® for Managers™

Benchmarks for Managers™ is our 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 provides managers with 360 feedback on strengths and weaknesses in the areas most needed for success.

For mid- to senior-level leaders with 3+ years of managerial experience

Benchmarks® for Learning Agility™

Are your leaders learning lessons from their experiences and taking advantage of growth opportunities?

Benchmarks for Learning Agility™ is a 360-degree assessment that provides feedback on the skills most often found in successful leaders by measuring learning agility and the capacity for new skill adoption.

For high-potentials, individual contributors, and global managers

Benchmarks® by Design™

Measure what matters most at your organization and build your development initiatives with Benchmarks® by Design™, our 360 assessment that can be tailored to reflect the competencies important to your organization.

Choose from our extensive, research-based library of over 90 competencies and derailment factors to design a targeted 360 feedback experience for any or all leader levels at your organization.

Any level of manager or executive

What Our Clients Are Saying

At CCL, we measure success by lives touched and impact made. That’s why the organizations we work with and the leaders we transform consistently tell us the same thing: their experience with us is a game-changer. Our Benchmarks® 360 assessments have helped to transform leaders and teams at many 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.

Delivering Results: Connecting Strategy & Leader Development

Working with Boehringer Ingelheim, we developed a multi-phase 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.

Developing Leaders Poised to Succeed in the Face of Change and Complexity

“Self-assessments and 360-degree feedback were used in conjunction to give me insights into how my personality traits drove my behaviors and the impact those had on other people. This powerful self-knowledge combined with best-practice theories, concepts and peer sharing enable me to deeply reflect and find my own answers to the ever-elusive question of what leadership is all about.”

Alexis Pham
Regional Learning and Development Manager
British American Tobacco

“The 360 assessment and feedback coaching sessions helped me formulate effective action plan to “fine-tune” my leadership style and behavior — from recent deep talks with my direct reports, it has proven effective!”

Thomas Lam
Assistant Finance Director
A.S. Watson & Co

“The 360 degree feedback from your immediate reporting manager, superiors, peers, and subordinates, and the personalized coaching is beyond any comparison — makes the experience simply incredible and inimitable.”

Abhilasha Hans
Vice President
Bharti AirTel Ltd

“The 360 feedback has given me insight to my relationship with others. What I’ve learned has prepared me for better working relationships with others and for achieving goals and success by leveraging my strengths.”

Samuel Poon
Head of Store Systems (Asia), Group I.T.
A.S. Watson & Co

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Find the Right 360 Degree Assessment for Your Leaders

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