360° FEEDBACK SURVEY
Anonymous, structured feedback that shows leaders exactly where to grow and improve.
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and leading Australian organisations
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See your leadership through the eyes of others
Are you ready to understand how your leadership is really experienced? A 360° feedback survey gathers confidential, anonymous input from the people you work with, giving you an objective view of your leadership strengths and the blind spots you may not recognise yourself. The result is a practical 360° feedback assessment you can use to guide your professional development and become a more effective leader.
WHAT A 360° FEEDBACK ASSESSMENT DELIVERS
- Increase your self-awareness as a leader
- Identify high-impact development opportunities
- Compare self-perception with others' perspectives
- Improve communication and leadership effectiveness
- Strengthen team relationships and performance
WHAT IS 360° FEEDBACK?
Structured feedback for real leadership growth
A 360° degree feedback survey uses confidential, structured feedback from colleagues to identify your leadership strengths and development opportunities. Peers, managers, direct reports and stakeholders, selected by you, complete a comprehensive 65-question assessment aligned with our leadership framework.
The resulting report provides a clear picture of how your leadership is experienced by others. Your detailed 10-page report compares feedback from colleagues with your own self-assessment across 60 leadership competencies and includes verbatim comments that add valuable context and perspective.
360° degree feedback surveys are commonly used to:
- Build leadership development plans and support ongoing growth
- Strengthen performance review and performance management processes
- Identify team development priorities and training needs
- Measure leadership progress over time
- Support succession planning and talent development initiatives
HOW DOES OUR 360° FEEDBACK SURVEY WORK?
A simple three-step process to better leadership:
Our 360° feedback survey follows a straightforward, evidence-based process that gives you meaningful insights into how your leadership is experienced by others.
Step 1
Introductory conversation
We begin with a short consultation to understand your leadership goals and what you want to achieve from your 360° feedback assessment. We’ll also help you select the managers, peers, direct reports and stakeholders who will provide confidential feedback.
Step 2
Complete the assessment
Step 3
Debrief your results
Once all feedback has been received, you’ll meet with a qualified leadership coach to review your report. Together you’ll explore key themes, validate your strengths, identify development opportunities and create a practical plan for growth.
TURN FEEDBACK INTO ACTION
Unlock stronger leadership with evidence-based 360° feedback
A 360° feedback survey gives you the objective insights needed to become a more effective leader. By understanding how your leadership is experienced by others, you’ll identify your strengths, uncover development opportunities and create a clear plan for meaningful growth.
Once your colleagues have completed the survey, you’ll meet witha qualified leadership coachfor a personalised debrief. Together, you’ll interpret your results, explore key themes, validate your strengths and identify practical actions that will have the greatest impact on your leadership.
- Clear priorities for your leadership development
- Increased confidence and leadership effectiveness
- Guidance from a qualified leadership coach to turn insights into action
- Greater self-awareness through honest, evidence-based feedback
The result? More confident, influential and impactful leadership.
WHY CHOOSE MELBOURNE LEADERSHIP GROUP?
Trusted 360° feedback backed by real leadership experience
Confidential 360° feedback for leaders at every level
Debriefs led by coaches with 20+ years of leadership experience
Evidence-based competencies built for Australian corporate and public sector leaders
Flexible scheduling around your work commitments
Trusted by government, universities and leading organisations
WHO DO WE WORK WITH?
Supporting leaders across Australia’s key sectors
We work with leaders and organisations across the public, private and for-purpose sectors, supporting medium to large organisations across a wide range of industries. While based in Melbourne, we partner with clients nationally, including organisations operating across multiple states.
In recent years, we’ve delivered programs in Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra, Adelaide and regional Victoria. Many of our executive clients continue to work with us across multiple projects, returning for coaching, training and facilitation as their leadership needs evolve.
READY TO SEE HOW YOU'RE REALLY PERCEIVED?
Here's what you get when you get started
Our 360° feedback survey gives you clear, actionable insight from confidential feedback to debrief, usually within a few weeks.
- A confidential 65-question assessment for your selected colleagues
- A 10-page report benchmarked against your own self-assessment
- A one-on-one debrief with a qualified leadership coach to unpack your results
- The option to repeat your survey in 18 to 24 months to track your progress
- No lock-in, no waiting list, get started the same day
FAQs
What is a 360° Feedback survey and how does it work?
A 360° Feedback survey gathers structured, anonymous feedback about a leader from the people who work with them – typically their manager, peers, and direct reports, and sometimes key stakeholders. Each person completes an online assessment covering a range of leadership behaviours and skills. The leader also completes a self-assessment using the same questions. The results are compiled into a report that compares the leader’s self-perception against how colleagues actually experience them. The gaps between the two are often where the most useful development insight sits. Melbourne Leadership Group’s 360° Feedback report covers 65 questions across eight domains of leadership, and is debriefed one-on-one with an experienced leadership coach.
What questions are included in a 360° feedback survey?
Our 360° feedback survey includes 65 questions across eight leadership domains, such as communication, influence, resilience and strategic thinking. Your selected colleagues anonymously rate observable leadership behaviours and can provide written comments, giving you balanced, evidence-based feedback to support your development.
Is 360° Feedback effective for leaders?
Yes – when it is well designed and properly debriefed. A 360° Feedback survey is one of the most powerful tools available for leadership development precisely because it replaces assumption with evidence. Most leaders have a general sense of their strengths and weaknesses, but that sense is often inaccurate in specific and consequential ways. The 360° process surfaces the gaps between how a leader sees themselves and how they actually land with the people around them. That insight, particularly when explored in a structured debrief with an experienced coach, consistently produces more focused and lasting development than self-directed reflection alone.
What does the 360° Feedback process involve?
The process has three stages.
- First, a short introductory conversation to understand your leadership context and agree on which colleagues will be invited to provide feedback.
- Second, the assessment itself – you complete an online self-assessment of 65 questions covering eight leadership domains, while your selected colleagues each complete an anonymous assessment of you based on the same questions. This typically takes around 15 minutes per person.
- Third, a one-on-one debrief session with an accredited leadership coach to work through your results – exploring the themes, confirming your strengths, and identifying the specific development areas most worth focusing on. You leave with a clear picture of how your leadership is actually experienced, and a practical basis for your development planning.
Is 360° feedback anonymous?
Yes. Respondents complete their assessment anonymously and individual responses are never identified. What you receive is a compiled report showing aggregated scores and verbatim comments, with no attribution to specific individuals. This anonymity is what makes the feedback genuinely useful – people say what they actually think rather than what they think is safe to say.
How do you use 360° feedback results for leadership development?
The debrief session is where the value is created – not the report itself. A skilled coach works through the results with you to identify the patterns that matter most, separate the signal from the noise, and translate the feedback into a small number of specific, practical development priorities. The most effective approach is to focus on two or three areas rather than trying to address everything at once.
From there, the 360° report becomes the foundation for a development plan – whether that involves coaching, targeted training, or simply a set of deliberate behavioural commitments to test in the weeks ahead. Many leaders choose to repeat the 360° process after 18 to 24 months to measure their progress against the original results.
How many people should complete a 360° feedback survey?
We recommend 8 to 10. Enough to give you a representative picture without creating an administrative burden. Fewer than 5 respondents risks making individual responses identifiable, which can compromise honesty. More than 12 adds little additional insight and increases the time required to coordinate responses. The introductory conversation with your coach will help you identify the right people.
Will this 360° process produce honest insight that people can actually use?
That depends on two things – the quality of the questions and the quality of the debrief. On the first point, Melbourne Leadership Group’s 360° survey is built around a robust eight-domain leadership framework covering 65 specific behavioural questions. The questions are concrete enough to produce meaningful scores rather than generic impressions. On the second point, the debrief is conducted one-on-one by an experienced leadership coach, not handed over as a self-service report. That conversation is where the insight becomes actionable.
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