S6E15: How a 360 Review Can Make You More Effective as a Leader

Leadership blind spots are the specific areas where a leader, even a very successful leader, is missing something. A blind spot can be a lack of attention to a certain area or part of your skillset that really has never been developed. And of course, you don't know what your blind spots are. But, we know how to find them. Todd Ervin, Executive Pastor of Ministry Support, and CFO of The Summit Church talks about tools that helped him and his team grow to be even more effective in their leadership. 

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In this episode:

• The five reasons for doing a 360 Leadership review (03:22)
• A 360 review is a tool that allows leaders to receive feedback from people “all around them.” That’s where the term “360” comes from. (03:50)
• Why The Summit Church went on a journey to use 360 reviews (05:27)
• "Our investment in leadership development and 360s, we consider a vital tool in our feedback process" (05:50)
• The biggest impact of 360s at The Summit Church has been the growth and the development of the leaders (08:20)
• Leaders have requested for 360 reviews to be performed (10:53)
• "Good leaders are teachable and humble, they want that honest feedback" (11:21)
• The 360 report aggregates scores, protects anonymity, and provides overarching themes (13:30)
• Why do a 360 review? (15:00)
• The higher you get in an organization, the less likely you are to hear the truth (15:10)
• "The 360 is not the end of a process but the beginning of a process." (17:25)
• How does it work? Someone on your HR team contacts BCWI and sets up a system of rating (22:54)
• Everyone in the process is appreciative that The Summit Church invested in the 360 review (25:46)
• "The BCWI team does a great job at taking a lot of data and honing it down into a few actionable steps that can really be taken by the leader and worked on with the team." (26:27)
• Find out more about 360 Reviews here (30:51)

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