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What Is 360° Evaluation and What Is It Used For?

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The 360 Feedback feature enables organizations to evaluate employee performance in a multi-dimensional and objective way, not only through managers, but also through peers, direct reports, and even cross-functional teams or stakeholders. This allows employees to see themselves from different perspectives, recognize their strengths, and clearly understand their development areas. As a result, both individual growth and team collaboration are significantly strengthened. 💡✨


What Is 360 Feedback and Why Is It Important?

Traditional performance evaluations are typically conducted at set intervals and rely on the perspective of a single manager. This approach may lead to subjectivity, limited observation, or bias caused by personal interactions.

The 360-degree performance evaluation method goes beyond this limitation by incorporating feedback from everyone an employee interacts with. This ensures that performance evaluations are more transparent, balanced, and objective.

With 360 Feedback:

  • Performance evaluations are not dependent on a single perspective

  • Feedback becomes more comprehensive and reliable

  • Development areas are clearly and constructively identified


Key Benefits

✔️ Objective and Multi-Source Performance Evaluation
Feedback is collected from managers, peers, direct reports, and when needed, internal or external stakeholders.

✔️ Clear Identification of Development Areas
Employees gain detailed insights into both their strengths and areas for improvement, enabling them to create effective personal development plans.

✔️ Stronger Team Communication and Collaboration
Constructive peer feedback increases empathy, transparency, and team awareness.

Ready-to-Use Competency Sets

Sorwe offers 21 ready-made competency sets that allow you to launch your 360 feedback process quickly and easily.
You can use these predefined sets or upload your own custom 360-degree performance questions to create fully tailored evaluation forms that reflect your organization’s needs.

Save Up to 75% Time with Automatic Mapping

Based on your organizational structure, Sorwe automatically creates evaluation mappings for thousands of employees.

You can define evaluation groups such as:

  • Self

  • Manager

  • Direct reports

  • Peers

  • Internal and external customers

and structure the process as 90°, 180°, 270°, or 360° evaluations, allowing you to build a flexible and dynamic feedback model.

Detailed Individual and Organizational Reports

Once the evaluation process is complete, results can be analyzed at:

  • Individual level

  • Team level

  • Organization-wide level

Competency distributions are visualized through Spider (Radar) Charts, enabling comparisons with organizational averages and supporting the creation of personalized career and development plans. This data-driven approach helps increase employee engagement and long-term growth.


Use Case Examples

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Analyzing Team Performance
Peer feedback highlights team dynamics, communication gaps, and collective strengths.

👩‍💼 Manager Evaluation
Employees evaluate managers on leadership, communication, and delegation, providing concrete insights for leadership development.

🎓 Talent Development Programs
360 results are used to create customized development plans for high-potential employees.

📈 Supporting Performance Review Processes
360 feedback data enables more balanced and objective evaluations during annual performance reviews.

🧩 Evaluating Cross-Functional Roles
For roles working closely with multiple departments, broader feedback helps analyze collaboration and overall impact.


Focus on Competencies with Inclusivity and Objectivity

The 360-degree performance evaluation method provides inclusivity, objectivity, and a multi-dimensional perspective at the same time. Employees are evaluated not only based on areas for improvement but also on their strengths.

This enables training, development, support, and reward processes to be planned more accurately and effectively.

In short, 360 Feedback does not merely measure performance; it builds awareness, supports development, and helps establish a strong performance culture.

With Sorwe 360 Feedback, make your evaluation processes fairer, more transparent, and more effective. 🚀
Because real development begins by bringing different perspectives together.

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