Insead Global Leadership Centre - 360-Degree Feedback Instruments: An Overview

Abstract

It is not surprising that roughly 70% of executives believe they are in the top 25% of their profession in terms of performance. Many of them are truly unaware of the way in which their behavior impedes functioning - their own, and others' - in their organization. The result is a serious gap between what many leaders say they do, and what they really do. Properly designed 360-degree feedback questionnaires can help by providing a tool to help leaders compare their self-perceptions with the observations of colleagues or others who know them well.

This Working Paper describes the 360° feedback survey instruments developed by the INSEAD Global Leadership Center. The article provides an overview of the Global Leadership Executive Inventory, the Personality Audit, and the Leadership Archetype Questionnaire. We discuss the psychometric development and pedagogical use of each instrument in leadership development programs.