Workplace Nordic 360º
Achieve more with feedback
How does your personality come across in your workplace?
You have already explored your personality through the WorkPlace Big Five Profile® and know your natural behaviors and comfort zones. Great! Would you also like to see yourself through others’ eyes? Have you ever wondered if others see your personality the same way you do?
Workplace Nordic 360º
Providing basis for developing one’s behavior
Personality refers to an individual’s natural ways of behaving and comfort zones – aspects that may not always be visible to others, but are felt internally. Workplace Nordic 360° does not measure personality, but rather the idea is to make visible how other people
perceive your behavior. This knowledge creates a strong foundation for developing one’s own actions and recognizing personal “energy drainers” (e.g. work role requirements vs. personality).
Do you want to?
- increase self-knowledge?
- develop the performance of a team or management team?
- develop leadership skills?
- make career or development plans for personnel?
- ensure employees are doing the job they are best suited for?
- develop the collaboration and atmosphere in the workplace?
Workplace Nordic 360° is quick to fill in
- The questionnaire is short, focuses on the essentials and is quick to fill in (approx. 10 minutes)
- Uses clear, real-world workplace language that’s easy to understand
- 23 questions assessing how personality is perceived in action
- Includes the option of giving open-ended feedback: “What has been particularly delightful in the person’s way of acting?” and “What else would you like to tell about the person’s way of acting?”
- Option to additional modules: Leadership module and/or Custom module with own questions
- Group reports available
- Questionnaire + report available in Finnish, English, Swedish, Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian
- Questionnaire also available in German, French, Italian, and Spanish
How can I start using the Workplace Nordic 360°?
To ensure best understanding, the Workplace Nordic 360° report is interpreted with a certified WorkPlace Big Five Profile® coach. The same coach provides you with the reports (assessments). Easy!
You can either:
- Participate in WorkPlace Big Five® certification training to be able to use the Workplace Nordic 360° independently, OR
- Find a Workplace Nordic 360° partner for you through us: contact information for certified consultants
Let the Workplace Nordic 360° assessment help you develop behavior based on feedback!
Examining behavior and actions in work contexts
Workplace Nordic 360° assessment complements the WorkPlace Big Five profiling and provides a basis for developing one’s behavior in various contexts. For best insights, Workplace Nordic 360°report is to be read together with the WorkPlace Big Five Profile®.
The Workplace Nordic 360° examines the person’s actions and behavior in the work setting through Big Five traits (N, E, O, A, C).
The standard report contains (in addition to self-assessment) the following assessor groups:
- manager(s)
- colleagues
- team members
- others
The assessee and all the assessors answer the same questions. Assessor groups can also be customized. Assessments are conducted
anonymously, and individual responses are not identified except for those from the manager(s).
The WorkPlace Big Five Profile® is usually not repeated (= personality remains constant). The 360° assessment, however, is repeated, and it’s well suited for following up on behavioral development (= we can change our behavior).
What our customers are saying?
I have used the Workplace Nordic 360° tool, together with the WorkPlace Big Five Profile, in the development and planning of team/management team performance. Workplace Nordic 360° provides an answer to a common question that arises during WPB5 profiling: ‘If this is how I see myself, how might others perceive my behavior indifferent situations?”
In addition to making your personality visible in a concrete way, Workplace Nordic 360° also offers a possibility for open comments. This means that it also provides feedback on behavioral patterns, categorized according to your personality traits. Getting such feedback on your behavior is very useful in itself, and in addition, it helps in utilizing and deepening the insights obtained from the Workplace Big Five Profile. Workplace Nordic 360° can also be customized and expanded to suit various needs in organizational development.
At Canon, one of the most important success factors is high-quality, coaching leadership that conforms to our values. For the past few years, Canon has concentrated leadership development efforts on energy leadership at the level of individuals, teams and the organization. Canon needed a method that would help managers identify their own natural traits in the context of management work and to see how their strengths or areas they felt needed development affect their energy and the people around them. The managers felt that the WorkPlace Big Five personal assessment and the Workplace Nordic 360° questionnaire were clear and easily manageable, and they both increased self-knowledge and effectiveness of their leadership in the immediate work environment. The energy tank concept is now part of everyday work in our organization, and I’m sure it will help individuals and teams to manage their energy according to the needs of the situation.
The WorkPlace Big Five reports are informative, and they provide a lot of material for improving self-knowledge and personal development. In the future, we plan to use the WorkPlace Big Five assessments and tools in recruitment as well as in competence and leadership development across the organization. During my career, I’ve had the chance to use various personal assessment tools, and WorkPlace Big Five is one of the best because of its clarity, scientific validity and use potential.
I recommend the Workplace Nordic 360° assessment to anyone who wants to become a better leader and receive structured feedback on their performance. It gives a clear picture of how the people around you experience your behavior. For example, you may think you’re good at giving feedback—but not all your team members would necessarily agree. Your approach might not be wrong, but it may be very different from what the people around you actually need. Being interested in and caring about people’s feedback is an essential part of good leadership.
I also use the WorkPlace Big Five personality profiling tool together with the 360° assessment. That way, we see the person’s potential through their personality and can compare it with how that potential is perceived by others.
