No matter how much experience you have, or whether you are a performance management enthusiast, giving constructive feedback can be challenging. This is why organizations who care about development put a lot of thought and work into creating the right culture where giving feedback starts to become more natural.
When it comes to giving 360 developmental feedback the stakes are often even higher. Employees are generally invited to provide feedback on performance of someone who is highly influential in the organization. Also, in most cases a person is selected to participate in the process because their manager, peer, or team member thinks their viewpoint can provide great value in their development. Hence, those providing feedback want to make sure they are objective and thoughtful, and that the person who receives their feedback is able to get the most out of it.
An increasing number of organizations are turning to technologies to power their 360 feedback programs. Historically 360 feedback was gathered through conducting interviews, however to increase efficiency and provide an increased sense of anonymity to get even more relevant feedback, most organizations and consultants have turned to technology for data gathering for their 360 feedback programs.
There are a number of considerations an organization makes when choosing their 360 feedback technology. A key one that is increasingly emerging is the technology’s multilingual capability. As an increasing number of organizations are becoming global, there are more languages being spoken in the workplace. Even if English, for example, is the primary language being used in an organization, it may not be most employees’ primary language, or the language that all employees are the most comfortable with.
This is why QuestionPro just released its newest version of multilingual 360 feedback surveys. Now when someone is invited to provide valuable input in a 360 degree feedback project, their full program interaction, from the language they are being invited to take the survey in, to the actual competencies they are providing feedback on, is all delivered in the language they are most comfortable using. This way, they can feel the most confident in the behaviors they are evaluating and feel the greatest amount of confidence in their feedback.
We have also made it as easy as possible for administrators to translate their competencies, statements, scales, and more. Offering auto translations to over 90 languages, to customized uploads of proprietary translations, and everything in between, we strive to be the best companion to our clients to make sure that the language their employees feel most comfortable providing feedback in is available to them.
Because we deeply believe in the value of performance feedback, we continue to build our 360 feedback platform so all of the stakeholders can get the most out of the program.
With QuestionPro Workforce 360 degree feedback platform, you can empower your leaders and drive your organization towards success with feedback that’s accessible and understandable to everyone. Visit QuestionPro Workforce’s 360 page for more information.
