"Mentor Moment: Self Perception & Evaluator Scores (http://www.theleadershipcircle.com/mentor-moment-self-perception-and-evaluator-scores) We don’t have to know what it all means. We don’t have to get it right. Whether we’ve done one debriefing or two hundred, we can let go of the need to look like we’ve got it together and allow ourselves to enter into a dance of meaning-making with our clients. Related Keywords:l eadership assessment tools, 360 assessment, leadership assessment, leadership assesments, the leadership circle"

1. Mentor Moment: Self Perception &
Evaluator Scores
By: Shahmeen Sadiq

2. “We don’t have to know what it all means. We don’t have to
get it right. Whether we’ve done one debriefing or 200, we
can let go of the need to look like we’ve got it together and
allow ourselves to enter into a dance of meaning-making
with our clients.”
- Shameen Sadiq

3. Look at Your Client’s Leadership Circle
Results Before You Debrief Them
Notice what their 360 evokes in
you, and pay attention to your
response to the results.
Don’t assume that your
response is “true” or “right”, but
don’t discount your response
either.

4. The client is the expert on their own life.
The best way to help someone
make sense out of their results is
to know more about them.

5. The client is the expert on their own life.
Common assumption by a coach: Most
leaders are arrogant and would likely
overestimate their creative leadership
qualities and underestimate their
reactive tendencies.
What would really be arrogant, would be
for the coach to assume that they know
what the profile means for the client in
absence of knowing more about the
client and hearing their story!

6. You know a lot about the frameworks
that underpin the 360.
Use what you know about the journey from reactive to creative,
the pathways, tensions and gifts inherent in the profile framework,
the creative tension model and the adult development journey to
dance with the client and their profile now that you know more
about them.
Your self-awareness is key here. Notice how the client is being
with you right now: how does it reflect what you see in the profile?
Sometimes itʼs not as much about the extent of the gap between
the scores, as it is about the pattern, or exceptions to the pattern.
Of course, the coachʼs willingness to name what they are noticing,
even when it would be easier or more comfortable not to

7. REMEMBER THAT WE
ARE ALL WORKS IN
PROGRESS. Nobody is
a finished product. This
includes you, me, our
colleagues and our
clients.

8. Read more and comment by visiting
www.TheLeadershipCircle.com
And clicking on “Leadership Quarterly”
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Get there directly at
www.TheLeadershipCircle.com/mentor-moment-self-
perception-and-evaluator-scores