Collaboration - 360 Degree Feedback Survey

About this Survey

Collaboration is the process of fostering open communication, building trust-based relationships, and promoting a cooperative environment where information is shared freely and all team members contribute to shared goals. It involves active participation, consensus-building, and shared decision-making, ensuring diverse perspectives are valued while addressing challenges through teamwork and problem-solving. Strong collaboration is rooted in mutual respect, commitment, and the effective use of digital tools to enhance efficiency, minimize misunderstandings, and create a culture of transparency and innovation.

This questionnaire is designed to give HR leaders clear, actionable insight into the key drivers of Collaboration within their organization. Each item reflects well-constructed dimensions of Collaboration, allowing you to quickly identify strengths, gaps, and opportunities for improvement. The survey is fully customizable, enabling you to tailor questions to your culture, workforce, and strategic priorities without starting from scratch. HR‑Survey partners with you to refine the instrument, interpret results, and ensure you gather the data needed to make confident, evidence‑based decisions. By using this tool, you gain a reliable, efficient way to understand your employees' experience and strengthen engagement across your organization.

Important Aspects of Collaboration

• Communication: creating an open, transparent, and supportive dialogue where individuals feel safe to express ideas, concerns, and insights. This dimension highlights fostering trust, enabling participation, promoting discussion across teams, and ensuring that communication flows smoothly to facilitate collaboration. It prioritizes clarity and engagement, ensuring that individuals actively contribute to conversations and exchange perspectives.
• Relationships: building and maintaining strong interpersonal and professional connections to enhance collaboration across teams, departments, and external partnerships. This dimension highlights fostering trust with suppliers, developing alliances within the company, strengthening cross-departmental bonds, and ensuring effective communication to reduce misunderstandings. It prioritizes network-building and trust, ensuring that collaboration is rooted in strong, lasting professional relationships.
• Collaborative Environment: building a workplace culture that encourages teamwork, trust, and shared success. This dimension highlights creating a non-competitive atmosphere, fostering innovation through collaboration, promoting open participation, and modeling cooperative behavior. It prioritizes cultural reinforcement and organizational alignment, ensuring that teamwork is a core value embedded in the department's structure and vision.
• Information Sharing: providing access to relevant knowledge, pooling resources, and ensuring that valuable insights are shared freely among team members to enhance efficiency and decision-making. This dimension centers on distributing critical data, making resources available, and ensuring collaboration results in deeper understanding. It prioritizes accessibility and collective intelligence, ensuring that teams work together to leverage shared knowledge for better outcomes.
• Open to Input: actively seeking and valuing contributions from individuals, ensuring diverse perspectives are heard and considered. This dimension centers on listening to ideas, encouraging creative input, implementing feedback, and recognizing the collective strength of varied viewpoints. It prioritizes engagement and inclusivity, ensuring that employees feel empowered to voice suggestions and influence decision-making.
• Shared Decision Making: bringing multiple stakeholders together to contribute their expertise, viewpoints, and insights to reach a well-rounded decision. This dimension highlights inclusive decision-making processes, valuing diverse opinions, and ensuring that choices are informed by a broad range of perspectives. It prioritizes group consensus and stakeholder involvement, ensuring that decisions are well-informed and mutually supported.
• Consensus: aligning perspectives, building agreement among stakeholders, and ensuring all voices contribute to cohesive decision-making. This dimension centers on maintaining motivation within teams, prioritizing shared interests, and structuring discussions to reach collective agreement. It prioritizes alignment and unity, ensuring that decisions are made in a way that reflects the input and endorsement of all involved.
• Shared Goals: aligning team members around common objectives, ensuring that everyone understands and contributes toward collective achievements. This dimension centers on defining and communicating goals, motivating teams to work in unity, ensuring alignment in committee-driven efforts, and fostering a shared vision. It prioritizes goal alignment and collective action, ensuring that individuals coordinate efforts effectively to reach agreed-upon outcomes.
• Shared Problem Solving: actively working with colleagues to identify, analyze, and resolve challenges collaboratively. This dimension centers on fostering creativity, mutual inspiration, leveraging collective expertise, and developing strategic solutions in a cooperative environment. It prioritizes collaborative brainstorming and solution-building, ensuring that teamwork leads to innovative and effective resolutions.

The Questionnaire

Instructions:

[Company] is conducting a 360-Degree Feedback Assessment developed by HR-Survey for selected managers.

You have been selected to provide feedback on the employee listed above. Your feedback is an important part of our company's leadership development process and this survey is intended to gather broad feedback in the core competencies and role responsibilities that are important for the on-going success of our organization.

In responding to the questions below, think about your experiences working with this employee over the last twelve months. The effectiveness of this development tool is dependent on your honest, forthright and constructive responses so please bear this in mind as you answer each question. Your responses will be aggregated with the responses received from others and discussed with the employee to foster growth and on-going development.

Partially completed forms can be saved by using the Save/Still Working button at the bottom of the page. You may return at a later time to complete/edit the form. Your saved responses will be shown each time you re-visit the feedback form. When you are certain that you have completed your responses, and will be not making any changes, click the Complete button.

Your feedback is valuable in helping the individual to understand how they are perceived and experienced by others and the impact their behavior has on people in the organization with whom they interact. Feedback received also acknowledges strengths and identifies areas for development.

Use the form below to provide your feedback. Each field and comment box requires a response before you can SUBMIT your final feedback.

Thank you for your participation in the survey. We look forward to seeing the analysis of your responses and we are hoping for 100% participation.

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Collaboration

Role
Model

Capable and
Effective

Somewhat
Effective

Needs
Development

Communication

1. Promotes open participation and communication within department and throughout the organization.

2. Creates an environment where others feel comfortable sharing knowledge and information.

3. Encourages open communication to support a collaborative environment.

4. Creates an environment where team members feel safe to express their ideas and concerns without fear of judgment.

Relationships

5. Builds strong interpersonal relationships for more effective collaboration.

6. Collaborates across departmental boundaries and finds common ground with a wide range of stakeholders.

7. Strengthens relationships with suppliers to improve contract and price negotiation terms.

8. Identifies and organizes partnerships and alliances.

Collaborative Environment

9. Creates a culture that encourages understanding and valuing diverse perspectives to effectively resolve conflicts.

10. Cultivates a collaborative culture that drives innovation, productivity, and employee satisfaction.

11. Creates a culture that fosters and values collaboration.

12. Models collaborative behavior through leading by example.

Information Sharing

13. Creates an environment that encourages information sharing.

14. Shares insights, innovations, and resources to enhance efficiency.

15. Shares knowledge, ideas and resources to achieve quicker success.

16. Works with others to pool knowledge, ideas and resources to provide deeper insights into difficult issues.

Open to Input

17. Regularly seeks feedback from employees on how to improve collaboration and acts on their suggestions.

18. Values the diverse perspectives and skills each team member brings to the table, recognizing that collaborative efforts often lead to more innovative and effective solutions.

19. Listens and attends to the ideas from others.

20. Encourages team members to offer opinions and ideas.

Shared Decision Making

21. Collaborates in group decision making.

22. Values others in decision making.

23. Uses group decision making.

24. Includes all stakeholders in the decision making process.

Consensus

25. Builds consensus among team members.

26. Engages in consensus-building activities.

27. Keeps everyone aligned and motivated to maintain a cohesive and productive team.

28. Builds consensus among partners.

Shared Goals

29. Ensures all team members understand the goals.

30. Defines shared goals with the committee members.

31. Works with others to achieve common objectives.

32. Collaborates with team members to achieve common goals.

Shared Problem Solving

33. Fosters a collaborative work environment where mutual inspiration leads to innovative problem-solving.

34. Works with other experts to solve problems.

35. Willing to work with others to solve problems.

36. Effectively works with others to create solutions to problems.

37. Overall, please rate the effectiveness of [Participant Name Here].
    

    5- Very Effective 4- Effective 3- Neither 2- Ineffective 1- Very Ineffective

    
    
38. Strengths
    
    
    
39. Areas for Development
    
    
    
40. Please give any final comments or suggestions for [Participant Name Here]'s assessment.
    
    

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