Benchmarks® Feedback Workshop Template

1. Benchmarks® Feedback Workshop Template This template is designed for you to use as a starting point to create your presentation. The purpose is to introduce the Benchmarks® Feedback Report to your participants who are preparing to receive their personal copy of their report. Before using this presentation, you should edit it for your specific initiative. 1. Delete or add slides for your initiative. 2. Edit content in red type for your initiative. 3. Delete this instructions slide.

2. Client/Organization Name Benchmarks® Feedback Workshop Date

3. Workshop Agenda Day 1: Group Session • Review of client initiative name • Introduction to the Benchmarks 360 • Receive and review your feedback report • Q&A Day 2: Individual Sessions • Purpose • Schedule

4. About the Center for Creative Leadership • Global, nonprofit research-based educational institution • World leader in publication and application of leadership assessments • Pioneered the use of 360-degree assessments in confidential, development-focused feedback for leaders

5. Important Lessons from 40 Years of Research • People can learn, grow, and change • Self-awareness is the critical factor in effectiveness • A 360 view from people who know you well is a valuable snapshot • Creating a plan for development greatly increases odds for success

6. Client Initiative Name • Why are we doing the Benchmarks 360? • Why with this group? • Why now?

7. Workshop Purpose and Goals • Understand how to read and interpret your Benchmarks feedback report • Discuss your results in a confidential session with a facilitator • Begin the process of linkingyour feedback to a personal development plan

8. Sample Report

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21. Additional Normative Comparisons Optional Slide • Additional Benchmarks normative comparisons are optional. Your Assessment Administrator can select one for each participant when he/she requests scoring. The additional comparison is included at the end of each participant’s report. • If you did not select any additional norms, delete this slide as well as the next two.

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24. Remember That: • 360 feedback is: • not the complete truth • a snapshot in time • data • You are the expert about you • Context matters • Two common mistakes:to agree or disagree too quickly

25. Understanding Feedback While perceptions may not be the ultimate truth, they are what people use to make decisions. • Morrison, White, & Van Velsor,Breaking The Glass Ceiling (1992)

26. As You Review Your Report • Make one complete pass through your report • Look for patterns and themes • Refrain from making notes, highlighting (for now) • Save questions for Q & A

27. Individual Sessions Are: • Confidential • Your agenda • Time (length) Are not: • Psychotherapy • A presentation by the facilitator

28. How to Prepare • Make a second pass to review your report in detail • Think about how you want to use this data for your development • Write down any questions to bring to your session • Try using the questions at the bottom of select pagesin your Feedback Report • Consider doing the exercises in Section I of the Development Planning Guide

29. Questions?