Context is Everything
META-Sense asks each respondent to describe a real situation when they experienced a leadership event or episode. This narrative style approach gives insight into the impact the leader or manager had on others. It provides a vital contextful frame for understanding and implementing changes based on the feedback.
Traditional tools and assessments ask respondents to measure a leader in the “abstract” against a set of behaviours or competences. Respondents base their score (as opposed to narrative) on a generalised view of the leader. Therefore, rendering any data for purposeful feedback as less than useful.
Key Differences
Key differences between META-Sense and Traditional 360s are summarised in the table below:
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META-Sense |
Other 360s |
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Narrative Based |
Behavioural rating |
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Context specific |
Abstract – context free |
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Continuous feedback |
One off report |
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Interpretation of impact |
Numerical scoring |
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Invites inquiry |
Leads to judgement |
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Hard to game |
Risk of rater fatigue and “gaming” |
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Insight led leadership development |
Score led development planning |
We believe that leaders who operate in a complex world or VUCA environment, need more insight into how their leadership is impacting others and achieving results. By linking leadership impact to specific situations, META-Sense offers a richer source of feedback to use as a basis for planning development.
Evidence Base
Evidence shows that multi source feedback is highly effective for development purposes, and the interpretation of the data is facilitated by a skilled and licensed coach, and when the leader is motivated to develop and learn.
META-Sense has been developed with reference to current research on leadership development and multi source feedback.
Over the next few years META-Sense will build up a knowledge resource of the leadership practices that are emerging in a VUCA world.
This will provide evidence from experience of the emerging leadership practices that are most effective across a range of organisations and sectors. META-Sense will analyse the patterns that emerge across all the users over time and share this information with HR specialists and leadership development practitioners who are part of the META-Sense network.