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Why 360° |
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Bolstering performance at the workplace, strengthen the soft skills of a B-School graduate, discovering latent skills in an employee − 360º feedback is equipped to do all this and more. The tool is making waves and helping to distinguish which skills, behaviours, or characteristics are most important to a person's job and identifying key strengths and deficiencies.
The Ascendus version of this tool brings more than the above listed benefits. The power of Team360 lies in its flexibility, which enables our clients to customize it depending on their unique requirements. Also, exciting, new features have been recently added to Team360 making it extremely user friendly. Here’s a quick look at what we’re talking about…
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Cumbersome to flexible – Team 360° redesigns performance reviews! |
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Across the world, employers are in search of tools that make the performance review an adaptable, accommodating and significant process.
And so it was for our client, a market leader in the field of radio advertising solutions in New Zealand . Our client approached Ascendus Technologies with the need to transform a cumbersome 360 degree feedback process into a flexible, easy to use, web-based tool, which could be used at the time of performance review discussions.
Ascendus was required to provide the client with a reporting feature, one that would allow reports to be accessed on the basis of organisational hierarchy. We then worked on a customised 360 degree feedback survey application. The solution we built, provided our client with several new and exciting features like:
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A unique survey that was designed, keeping the employee structure in mind: Managers were given the right to access their direct reports only, while an administrator was given the right to monitor and manage all users.
- Tracking progress: Ascendus also developed a Progress Report that showed completion status of surveys, by people below in the chain of command
- At a glance: The solution came with a Summary Report that provided for a quick review of reports, after the surveys were completed for a particular employee.
- Seeing is believing: Since the reports were available in real time, employees were able to see their reports and the response status of their survey. Reports of Team360 became the basis of the performance review!
The end result? Team 360 turned out to be a popular tool which was received extremely well − with a response rate that was overwhelming when compared to a paper based survey. Small wonder then, that Team360 is heralded as an effective and powerful tool to use at the time of performance review discussions.
After the Ascendus experience, we had our client arriving at the same conclusion! After extensive researched on 360 tools that are currently available, our client was able to opt for the best option − Team360! An affordable solution that offers unique customization.
The ‘War for Talent’ during the turn of the century has resulted in a valuable lesson − that employees are a critical competitive advantage. Our client is winning this war, and is aided by the use of Team360 at the time of performance review discussion.
To be an employer of choice, a company needs to consider people its greatest asset. Ascendus helps you do so!
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Team360° as a tool for Training Need Analysis (TNA) |
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Assessing an employee’s skill and behaviour during the recruitment process, at the time of appraisal or even during a development and training programme, can prove to be an important and effective tool. Our client, a major hospital from Canada , needed to do just that.
Ascendus was assigned with the task of designing a unique solution that would cater to the requirements of our client − a customised tool that would contain different question types (radio button, check box, drop down, free text box).
Ascendus emerged with an attractive tool that appealed to an employee taking the survey. The customised version of Team360 had more features to offer than its stunning look:
- Effective grouping − Question grouping helped to make the survey effective. This feature allowed the administrator to send out different questions from the same survey to different raters. Employees then received constructive feedback from a diverse array of raters, like peer, manager, direct reports, internal and external customers.
- Reminders − Weekly reminder emails were sent out to participants who had not completed the survey.
- Updates − A daily response rate update was sent to the administrator.
- Different dimensions, different reports − Ascendus churned out reports based on different dimensions of skill and behavioural assessment. This proved to be of great help to the client, and assisted in determining the specific training needs of a particular employee.
- Graphically speaking − Ascendus provided charts/graphs to help employees gauge their major areas of strength and improvement.
The list doesn’t stop here. Team360 continues to be the unique tool for Training Need Analysis, while B School graduates and executives in various industries are beginning to benefit from the training and education analysis.
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Team360° − powering the B-school graduate, ensuring an efficient executive!
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Top business schools are in the essential business of creating, moulding and
'training the world’s future leaders. Taking the inside out approach to personality development, and helping them achieve their own individual potential is no doubt a tough task at hand.
Add to this, thousands of organisations that are working on operating in a fluid, shifting environment, armed with knowledge, cutting edge skills, continuous learning and growth.
A significant tool that is helping both business schools and corporate organisations in this journey is the 360º feedback survey. A well known business school in North Carolina , USA , required an application that could be used as a tool in their executive education program.
Ascendus began working on the assignment by thoroughly studying the exclusive requirements of the business school. Evidently, an executive education program needed a top-notch self awareness tool. The tool needed to offer its user effective feedback that could be easily interpreted and acted upon. a at the same time the tool should
Putting these pieces together, Team360 brought out the Ascendus Quadrant Graph − an adapted version of the famous self awareness tool, the Johari Window. The Quadrant Graph comprises in four quadrants, representing s different areas of strength and weakness. The Ascendus Quadrant Graph was dynamically used for understanding and training self awareness, personal development, improving communications, interpersonal relationships, group dynamics, team development and inter-group relations.
The survey proved to be a comprehensive one that was understood by executives across sectors, as well as to the aspiring managers – students of B-school. The survey was easily interpreted, and required no any technical manual or instructions of any kind.
Ascendus facilitated the process of learning and development, as leaders came face to face with constructive feedback. With recruiters around the world looking for more than just a degree, the importance of a student’s soft skills, the ability to think strategically and lead in every situation, has come to the forefront. The Ascendus tool is helping to achieve these very goals.
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