The best way to identify high potential managers in a rapidly changing world is to look for those who continue to learn and grow. And one important focus of ongoing learning and development is how well people relate to each other. People need to feel connected to their workplace colleagues if they are to give and to keep giving their best. Feedback from others is the cheapest, most powerful and yet most under-used motivational tool available. Without feedback our capacity to grow and influence others is diminished.

There are many ways that people can use to learn more about themselves and an obvious one is self-report such that the person is provided with direct and objective learning information about their learning strengths and weaknesses.

However a different way of proceeding is to determine what other people think of us. This is more critical and challenging as well as just different. We can learn a lot from the constructive comments of colleagues who will tend to see us differently from the way we see ourselves. By bringing people into the process so that it is less of a solo exercise, 360 degree feedback is a powerful and helpful methodology.

What can be more powerful than to determine whether other people think of ourselves as functional or dysfunctional learners?

360 degree feedback is a tool for growth such that it offers participants the ability to gain awareness and understanding of how one's learning is perceived by others, and thereby initiates a path towards becoming more functional and productive.

You can use the Learning Styles Profiler to measure functional and dysfunctional learning in self-report and 360 degree feedback modes. The choice is yours!

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Until my next newsletter!

Chris Jackson