Work with your Strengths not your Weaknesses

A mature response to 360 feedback is to work with your strengths which represent those attributes and skills which come more naturally and have brought you to your current position of success.

Compensate for weakness and even deploy acceptable weaknesses, strategically, to build your unique brand of leadership - the acceptable foible which reduces psychological distance from followers and makes you human and indeed more 'loveable' in their eyes.

Build and even further develop those attributes and skills which have made you successful in the past and compensate for those areas of weaknesses, which might be getting in your way.

Nobody is good at absolutely everything and if you spend a lot of time and energy trying to radically 'fix' yourself, you may find that the effort and energy was wasted and the results do not last.

So, don't come up with a menu of things to fix about yourself - despite your best intentions, it probably wont happen.

The key to successfully making changes in behaviour is in making changes in small, bite-size pieces.

Trust the 20:80 rule - a 20% change is likely to produce an 80% impact, if the change is well chosen and diligently followed-through.

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