LinkedIn Leadership 360 Kickoff

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LinkedIn Leadership 360

What is it?  The LinkedIn Leadership 360 is a developmental learning tool designed to help LinkedIn’s leaders become “world class” by improving specific leadership strengths from good to great. Individual development plans are created based on feedback from the leaders’ manager(s), peers, direct reports, and cross-team partners.  

Who it is for?  Senior Leaders (Directors +)

What is the objective? To obtain insights about one’s leadership strengths and identify a focus for growth, development and transformation.  To better understand perceptions of others in order to be a better leader for those around you.

What is the time commitment? 2 hours of Leader’s time + 10 minutes per rater.  From start to finish, the process takes about 6 weeks.

Enterprise Solution, Senior Leaders

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LinkedIn Leadership 360 - Core Characteristics

Why is it important?  The assessment is based on 5 Leadership Characteristics which are deeply embedded in LinkedIn’s unique culture. The focused transformation of our leaders is necessary to realizing our collective vision of economic opportunity and is valuable to the leaders both here at LinkedIn and in their next play.

This is a great tool - it gives my team a quick way to provide feedback on my performance -

and provides me with new insights about my professional brand and leadership style.

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Amy Parnell, Sr. Director, UX Design

For me, the opportunity to participate in our LinkedIn Leadership 360 is a powerful way of

obtaining impactful and valuable feedback. You can build out your personal Leadership

Development Plan to continue in your transformation of self.

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Ed McConville, Director, Learning & Development

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The Latest Leadership Research

Empirical research has shown that the best leaders in the world are not exceptional at every aspect of leadership. Rather, they are world class at 3-5 top strengths.

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What is a 360-degree assessment?

The process takes 6 weeks up to the creation of the Leadership Development Plan

How does it work?

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Confidentiality of Assessment

Before launching the survey, HRBPs must

decide with Leaders who their 360 report data

will be shared with**Note: while the LL360 is a development tool, giving your Manager access to your

data could indirectly influence performance feedback

360 Report

It is the participant’s responsibility to share the

Development Plan with their manager

Sharing with their manager helps the manager support

the leader in their goals and ensures alignment

Development Plan

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LinkedIn Leadership 360 Rater Selection

YouSelf Assessment

Good to Have

Great to Have

Must Haves● Manager● Direct Reports

● Peers/Teammates● Colleagues w/in

Function

● Cross-team Partners from other Functions

● Internal Clients● Manager’s Manager

Best Practices:●4+ raters in each group (at least 3 per group must complete the survey for anonymity)

●Choose raters who know you well and will provide open, honest & constructive feedback

Next steps for you:

• Decide with your HRBP who will have access to your 360 report

• Confirm and submit your rater list to your HRBP

• Visit go/leadership360 for more information or contact your HRBP or

ld-assessments@linkedin.com if you have questions

Appendix

• We are currently collecting the data necessary to conduct the formal validity study and

establish a LinkedIn-specific benchmark

• In the meantime, we are fully confident our survey is valid:

The survey items were created in consultation with The Zenger Folkman Company - the

best and longest standing leadership 360 companies in the world

We conducted a factor analysis to validate the relevancy and structure of our Great

Leadership Characteristics utilizing the largest 360 leadership dataset on the planet

Are the tool and the 360 report valid?

Next steps for Director + Development at LinkedIn…

• When we have completed our LinkedIn Leadership 360 benchmark, we can use

this collective data to ascertain learning needs for Director + population in the

future.

• The may include: Point solutions / modules for specific gaps and opportunities

Executive Coaching, Intact leader-led sessions to meet business needs, or

Business simulations.