How Do You Empower Your Leaders To Elevate Your Business?

You already know this: a strong leadership team is one of the fastest ways to grow an organization.

But leadership is also one of the easiest places to get burned.

• Do you know the leadership strengths and blind spots of every leader on your team?
• How confident are you that you’re promoting the right people into the right roles?
• Are your managers inspiring performance, or just managing tasks?
• Are your leaders developing others… or unintentionally driving talent away?

If you’re relying on gut feel, surface-level performance metrics, or a single manager’s opinion, you’re guessing in a high-stakes situation.

CheckPoint 360™ replaces guessing with clear, multi-rater, behavior-based feedback so you can develop leaders with precision and measure growth over time.

The Path to Great Leadership

To improve leadership skills, you must first measure leadership effectiveness, not just outcomes.

Production metrics matter. Financial performance matters.
But leadership is what determines whether results are repeatable, scalable, and sustainable.

True leadership shows up in observable behaviors:
how a person communicates, adapts, builds trust, manages work, develops others, and grows themselves.

That’s exactly what CheckPoint 360™ measures.

What Is CheckPoint 360™?

CheckPoint 360™ is a comprehensive leadership assessment that gathers feedback from multiple perspectives, typically including:

• Self
• Manager(s)
• Peers
• Direct reports
• (and others who work closely with the leader when appropriate)

Instead of a single viewpoint, you get a full-circle picture of how a leader is showing up day-to-day, where they’re strong, where they’re inconsistent, and what’s most likely holding their impact back.

This increases accuracy, lowers defensiveness, and makes development actionable, because the feedback is coming from the people who experience the leader’s behavior in real situations.

Pair this with our PXT Select Assessment and you’ll know exactly WHY those behaviors are showing up and how to coach that person to a different outcome…..better leadership!

What It Measures: 8 Core Leadership Competencies

CheckPoint 360™ evaluates leadership across eight universal competencies:

1. Communication
2. Leadership
3. Adaptability
4. Relationships
5. Task Management
6. Production
7. Development of Others
8. Personal Development

Within those, it also digs deeper into 18 key skill sets – so the development plan isn’t vague (“communicate better”) but specific (“clarify expectations,” “follow-through,” “adjust style under pressure,” etc.).

How CheckPoint 360™ Works

Step 1: Self-evaluation

The leader completes an online self-assessment so they can clearly see how they view their own effectiveness across the competencies.

Step 2: Multi-rater feedback

Raters who closely interact with the leader provide feedback – direct reports, peers, managers, and others as needed.

Step 3: Clear, easy-to-read reporting

You receive reports that show patterns, strengths, gaps, and alignment across groups, so development isn’t based on one loud opinion or one isolated incident.

Step 4: Feedback sessions that turn data into action

The process includes feedback sessions for the leader and the management team, ensuring the results lead to changed behavior – not a report that gets filed away.

Step 5: Repeat at key intervals to improve growth

This is where the tool becomes powerful: you can re-run it later and see measurable progress, not just “it feels better,” but actual movement in the behaviors that matter.

• Do you know the leadership strengths and weaknesses of everyone on your team?
• How can you be sure you’re promoting the right people?
• How do you develop leaders who will truly inspire others and solve problems?

You can stop guessing. With the right tools and insights, you can have a clear, data-driven approach to measuring leadership potential and building the team that will take you where you want to go.

Why We Use Wiley’s CheckPoint 360™

There are plenty of 360 tools out there. We use Wiley’s CheckPoint 360™ for a reason:

1) Solid science behind the assessment

This isn’t “vibes” or pop psychology. It’s grounded in validated leadership and performance research.

2) Reporting people will actually understand

The results are clear, structured, and usable, which means leaders are more likely to engage with them, and act on them.

3) A rating scale that creates real consistency

The scale uses generalized descriptions with percentage-based meaning, so everyone is measuring against the same standard, apples to apples, instead of each rater inventing their own scoring system.

4) The Critical Skills page is the game-changer

This alone is worth the cost.

Here’s why:
The report asks the leader, “What do you think are the most important skills for your job?” (selected from a defined list).
Then it asks the leader’s manager(s), “What do you think are the most important skills for this person’s job?”

When those don’t match (and they often don’t), it exposes the #1 hidden leadership problem in organizations:

misaligned expectations.

And the conversation that follows is priceless, because now you’re not coaching personality. You’re coaching clarity.

What CheckPoint 360™ Delivers for Your Organization

Boost productivity and performance

Pinpoint strengths, identify gaps, and build a straightforward development plan that is tied to real behavior, not assumptions.

Strengthen communication and trust

It creates a safe, structured way to surface feedback that otherwise stays underground until someone quits or performance breaks.

Increase the value of your leadership development

Stop wasting training dollars on generic content. Focus development on the specific behaviors that will create the biggest impact.

Promote empowerment and accountability

People feel seen. Leaders get clarity. Teams get a voice. And results improve because expectations become explicit.

Your Organization Can’t Afford Ineffective Leadership

When leaders are ineffective, organizations pay for it everywhere:

• turnover and retention issues

• disengagement

• inconsistent execution

• rework, missed deadlines, quality problems

• conflict avoidance or conflict escalation

• stalled growth because the next layer of leadership isn’t developing

Most companies don’t have a leadership problem.
They have a visibility problem.

CheckPoint 360™ gives you the visibility.

The Bottom Line

If leadership is the engine of your organization, then measurement is your dashboard.

CheckPoint 360™ shows you:

• what’s working,

• what’s not,

• where expectations are misaligned,

• and exactly where to focus development so leaders grow faster, with fewer false starts and less guesswork.

If you want stronger leaders, you need more than opinions. You need data you can coach.