Building 360 identifies how you can assess the critical competencies, behaviors, and practices that must be measured and optimized in an age of global competition.

Minneapolis, Minnesota. – With three book awards to its credit, two USA and one International, Building Performance-Based 360-Degree Assessments by Larry Cipolla, is a must read for anyone involved in the design, development, and delivery of 360 feedback. This comprehensive book connects the dots: performance-based feedback, action planning with accountability, training and development initiatives, and follow-up post-assessments to drive measurable performance improvement. Building 360 will build upon your expertise to guide and manage any internal or external 360 project.

There are many articles and books on 360-feedback but none focus on the specifics for building the actual assessment tool, until now. Building 360 includes client-proven best practices for getting your 360 assessment right the first time. This book is a structured step-by-step format that guides the reader through every step of the process for creating and delivering dynamic assessments for any target population. Building 360 includes more than 270 pages of exercises, tables, charts, diagrams, checklists, and samples of reporting formats. There are more than 500 ready-to-use examples of competencies, definitions, rating response scales, quantitative and qualitative items, skill-building exercises, and thought provoking questions to help the reader design and build more powerful and relevant 360-degree assessments immediately.

According to Mr. Cipolla, “As the individual becomes more effective, so does the organization.”

Building 360 helps position the 360-process to internal or external decision-makers by identifying proven recommendations for achieving long-term success; by discussing psychometrics and their application to the 360-process; by connecting the process with training and development programs; and by identifying how a performance-based 360-degree process can become an integral and on-going component to the personal and professional development of employees at all levels.

Building 360 will benefit people who are new to the 360-degree process and seasoned developers who want to refine their technique. Internal and external HR trainers, psychologists, and OD consultants in business, industry, education, and governmental organizations around the world can easily apply these best practices to create more powerful assessments.

“What people do and how they do it can identify their attitude. What happens at the top cascades throughout the organization,” according to Mr. Cipolla.

What our leaders do affects us all. Leaders need to lead and be positive role models. Building 360 identifies how to hold personnel at all levels accountable for their actions. Building 360 can help re-align the connection between performance and compensation. Building 360 provides the structure and specifics to help you create better, more powerful assessments, now.

CCi Surveys International helps people maximize their performance and influence through feedback. Established in 1976, CCi Surveys International is one of the pioneers and innovative leaders in the 360-degree movement. The company markets more than 75 different 360-assessments and non-360 assessments to clients around the world.

ASTD members can purchase the book at a special discount price of only $35 (plus shipping and handling). When ordering please use the code: ASTD62013. Contact CCi Surveys International at or .
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