An Account of 360° Review As Part of a Practice Development Strategy

AbstractThe purpose of this paper is to describe the experiences and learning of a group of practitioners, who, while engaged with a systematic emancipatory practice development strategy, undertook a 360° review of their leadership. The purpose of the review was two‐fold: first, to compare their leadership self‐assessment with perceptions of those people they worked with who were affected by their style of leadership; and second, to enable the group members to develop leadership action plans that would facilitate implementation of the practice development strategy. The article shows how the group were moving along a path of enlightenment and empowerment in relation to one style of leadership called transformational leadership. Copyright © 2004 Whurr Publishers Ltd.