I have a range of interests in todays post.  My wife owns and manages Endon Kindergarten; a children's nursery in Staffordshire.  She was interested in getting 360 degree feedback for her management team.

Now family loyalties didn't stretch to us setting up a fully customised solution for just 4 managers.  And frankly, she didn't want to design a competency framework from scratch.  I do however believe that 360is valuable in smaller organisations and for this reason we built a "pay as you go" online 360 called www.myOwn360.com .

Over time I'll share a range of feedback I had through this process but the key one I want to share today is that although people may be nervous of a 360 particularly in a small, close-knit team it works very, very well.  The management team found it highly valuable.  Like in a larger organisation it is a real commitment of time and effort to do it properly but the value you will gain is significant.

We have learnt a great deal from building this solution that we have transferred over to our main online 360 degree appraisal solutions .  I learnt that 360 is effective in many different organisations.

Brendan