High-quality 180/360 feedback assessments are an investment in closing critical competency gaps and ensuring your leadership is positioned to execute your strategy in 2026 and beyond.
For executive leaders, the value of 360-degree feedback is tied directly to:
Safeguarding the Talent Pipeline: These assessments systematically identify the exact leadership competencies that are underdeveloped across your high-potential leaders. Unlike generic, off-the-shelf models, our approach custom-maps the assessment to your organization's unique strategy and competency model. This moves succession planning from guesswork to data-driven investment, ensuring future leaders are ready to step up.
Driving Business Alignment: Leadership behaviors must align with strategic priorities such as innovation or agility. Because we prioritize a scientifically validated approach, the 360 feedback data provides a granular, reliable view of where leadership actions are supporting the strategy and where additional support is needed.
Increasing Leader Effectiveness: By providing leaders with honest, context-specific, multi-rater feedback, these tools foster rapid self-awareness. Leaders who understand their impact are significantly more effective, which translates directly into higher team productivity, lower voluntary turnover, and stronger engagement across their departments.
Identifying Behavioral Bottlenecks: Poor scores on attributes like "Communication" or "Delegation" help you pinpoint systemic breakdowns, allowing you to address them at the source and improve cross-functional collaboration and efficiency.
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Many vendors offer 360 tools, coaching, or competency development, but organizational impact requires a blend of the three with a specific focus on strategic alignment. At OrgVitality, we believe that the true power of talent development lies in the commitment to uniquely align and act on your programs.
| Strategic Issues | Leverage Your 180/360 Assessments |
Key Business Highlights |
| Succession Planning | Provides objective data on the readiness of emerging leaders, highlighting specific skills that need coaching before a promotion. | Ensures continuity of leadership and prevents costly promotion failures. |
| Executive Focus | Confirms if key strategic messages, such as "focus on innovation," are actually translating into observable leadership behaviors | Closing the gap between strategy and day-to-day management. |
| Inclusion | Assesses leadership on critical inclusion competencies, such as inclusive delegation, providing quantifiable data for equity efforts. | Mitigates legal risk while supporting a culture that attracts diverse talent. |
High-impact assessments require a high-touch partnership.
At OrgVitality, our focus is on deep, consultative implementation and development that follows.
If you are looking to elevate your leadership capability and secure your talent pipeline, let's schedule time to discuss how a targeted 180/360 assessment initiative, tailored to your strategy, can align with your organization's most critical strategic goals.
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