The 360° Maxwell Leadership Assessment
What kind of leader are you? How do you impact the people around you? Do they follow you because they have to, or because they want to? How big is your influence and impact? Do you know what are the contributing factors? Or what to focus on precisely to grow your influence and effectiveness as a leader?
Where are you on your growth journey to become an impactful leader? As John Maxwell Team coaches, we are happy to present you with a unique evaluation tool: the 360° Maxwell Leadership Assessment.
The 360° Maxwell Leadership Assessment is designed to provide valuable feedback that can have a positive impact on your leadership development, personal growth, and journey to become a highly effective 360-degree leader. The objective data in this report is related to how others are experiencing your influence in the five levels of leadership including Position, Permission, Production, People Development, and Pinnacle which all measure your overall leadership effectiveness. The report itself provides both metrics and written feedback about how you lead and develop others. The raters can be chosen from different categories: direct reports, manager direct line, peers/associates and others.
Leadership attributes have been distributed over 5 levels, in accordance with those identified by John C. Maxwell in his book “The 5 levels of Leadership”. The higher the level, the greater your influence and impact.
1. POSITION: This is the first level of leadership where people follow you because they have to – because of the position you hold. You serve in your position because of the promise you have shown as a leader. Others are watching you in this level to see if the walk matches the talk. The items below provide feedback on how you are perceived relating to areas like trustworthiness and commitment to the team, as well as how you are viewed as a role model. The scores in this level provide a reflection of how others view your attitude towards them individually and as a team.
2. PERMISSION: At this level of leadership, people follow you because they have given you permission to develop a relationship with them. Great leaders inspire and motivate other leaders to perform with excellence. In order to motivate and produce the best results, a leader takes a genuine interest in others. Great leaders train, coach, mentor, encourage and empower! The scores in this level reflect your relationship competencies as part of your core leadership attributes.
3. PRODUCTION: The third level of leadership is about getting results with a team. Every organization, and therefore every leader, must achieve results in order to grow and expand. Results-oriented behaviors include setting the vision, thinking strategically, making decisions and initiating action to achieve that vision. Producing results in the production level means casting the vision and holding others accountable. In this level, people follow you because of what you've done for the organisation.
4. PEOPLE DEVELOPMENT: Great leaders embrace developing others both personally and professionally. Highly effective leaders realize that time invested in developing others has an immeasurable impact on leading organizational success and employee satisfaction. Using the other levels of leadership (Position, Permission and Production) together helps leaders effectively develop others. At this level of leadership, you use your experience and knowledge to reproduce your own skills in the lives of others. When you do this, people follow you because of what you've done for them.
5. PINNACLE: At this level of leadership, you have helped many other leaders over a long period of time that you have earned the respect of people who follow you because of what you represent. The results in this level represent your awareness of your emotions – yours and others – and the appropriateness of your response to them. The scores in this category reflect the amount of respect you receive and give to others (and may also be referred to as emotional intelligence).
Looking to conduct a 360° leadership assessment?
If you are looking to carry out a 360° leadership assessment in your organisation, contact us to help you set it up and accompany you and the assessed individual(s) through the process. Framing the results and feedback in the right way - accompanied by a coach - will contribute making the most of the assessment and evaluation process so that the individual will feel empowered, aware of his/her strengths as well as blindspots and feel much better equipped knowing what to focus on to grow their leadership potential.
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Curious to find out more about the values and skills that are representative at each level? We invite you to explore it by taking the free self-assessment.
Click here for the free Maxwell 360° Leadership self-assessment.
Testimonial from Ioana Banach, Green European Foundation, Brussels
Amina has supported my organisation - a political foundation operating at European level - with the implementation of a 360 leadership feedback process. In my direct work with her, she guided me through a personal assessment process (using the DISC method) as well as the reflection on the results and the contouring of my personal development plan.
Amina has shown openness and availability, and managed to implement the agreed work under considerable time pressure. She strived to ask questions both about individual aspirations and talents and the needs and vision of the organisation she was working with. She demonstrated a lot of interest in our work and the core of our perceived challenges, while demonstrating empathy and creating a pleasant and supportive work atmosphere.”