Peer answers stopped feeling anonymous
People suspected the recipient's manager could work out who wrote what. So the answers came in softer than the team actually felt, and the picture ended up rosier than reality.








Not because the feedback was wrong, but because of what happened after it came in.
People suspected the recipient's manager could work out who wrote what. So the answers came in softer than the team actually felt, and the picture ended up rosier than reality.
Forty scores and eighty comments landed on the recipient's desk. All of it was true, none of it was priorities, and the person receiving it wasn't sure what to do first.
The 360 report existed. The follow-up didn't. Twelve months later, the same cycle ran, and the same growth areas came back a second time.
Three steps, and the first one is something you could get done this week.
Pick the skills and behaviors that matter — leadership, communication, coaching, execution, or pull them from a library. Invite the person themselves, their manager, three to six peers, and their direct reports if they have them. Answers come in without names attached.
Ratings across each competency, sorted from clearest strength to biggest opportunity, with the difference between what the person thinks of themselves and what the people around them think. Written comments get grouped into the subjects raters kept raising.
A short write-up for the person, framed to help. A summary for the manager, if the program calls for one. A cohort read-out for HR that shows which competencies most teams are strong or short on, so the coaching goes where it will do the most.
Self
1
Manager
1
Peers
6
Direct reports
4
Cross-functional
3
Coaching
+0.4
Collaboration
+0.5
Communication
-0.2
Strategic thinking
-0.4
Development plan · J. Kim
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Honest peer feedback only shows up when people believe the answers can't be traced. This one is designed so belief is a mechanism, not a promise on the intro page.
The record itself doesn't hold a name or ID for the rater. It can't be reconstructed later, even by us.
A rater group's picture doesn't unlock until enough people in that group have answered. One or two peers never become a report.
Ratings and grouped themes, not the individual comments in the order they arrived.
Every time someone opens the reporting, it's written to a log.
Six things that separate a 360 program that changes behaviour from one that just runs on schedule.
Pick from a library of research-backed competencies or write your own. Add role-specific ones as you go. Nothing about the framework is fixed.
Self, manager, peers, direct reports, cross-functional partners. Choose the groups per program, weight them differently if you want, and add or remove groups without rebuilding the survey.
Automated reminders keep completion rates up without anyone knowing who's answered and who hasn't.
Strengths and growth areas in order, differences between self and other views, and the subjects people keep raising in their written feedback.
See which competencies most teams are strong or short on, and where coaching would do the most good.
Repeat the cycle every year or twelve months into a program, and each report shows what changed since last time.
One worked example with made-up numbers. Your competencies, raters and cadence would be your own.
Development plans come from a summary, not a wall of comments
Every number on this page is made up. Real programs start looking like this within a few weeks of going live.

The employee's manager, six peers, four direct reports and one cross-functional partner are invited. Each response arrives without a name attached to it.
Reminders go out to whoever hasn't answered, without anyone knowing who they are. Each rater group's picture unlocks once enough answers are in.
The person sees their own strengths and growth areas in order, along with how the picture differs from the way they see themselves. The manager sees a summary framed for coaching, not judgement.
The employee and their manager agree on the two things worth focusing on next. Six months later a shorter mid-cycle pulse checks progress. The following year, the full 360 shows the shift.
A few short walkthroughs, recorded in the product.
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Five things that tend to matter once procurement gets involved.
The record itself doesn't carry a person on it.
Strengths and growth areas in order, framed to help.
Every account gets a named Strategic Account Manager.
Which competencies are strong across the organisation and which need coaching.
That's ours.
Three ready-made starting points you can pull into your account and reshape.

A standard 360 with the core competencies already set for the person, manager, peer and direct-report groups.
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A structured performance review from the perspectives around each employee.
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A short direct-report survey on manager support, delivered separately from the full 360.
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Pull rater lists, managers, peers and direct reports, from your HR system so nobody's rebuilding it in a spreadsheet.
Deliver the invitations in the chat tools your team already uses, with reminders that don't break anonymity.
Employees sign in with the credentials they already use.
Drop a file on a schedule when a direct connection isn't on the table.
Independently audited controls at every layer, and your data stays in whichever region you choose.
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