Steven -- The Dayton City Council did a modified 360 for me this year. I don't really think it made everyone completely happy, including me. I also don't believe the feedback was particularly helpful to me because it was filtered through Paul Koch and his associate. In order to keep staff anonymous, it was pretty ambiguous -- i.e., "lack of trust," "employee relations issues" that were never really defined and in fact, were acknowledged by Koch to probably have no basis in actual fact, but Council didn't hear that part and ran with it. I'm going to be perfectly honest here because I trust all of you, but the biggest thing that came out of this for me was that I no longer trust my Council. That saddens me because I've been here for 13 years and this is the first time I have felt that way. I think that lack of trust goes back to the 360 -- nobody has to be specific, so you don't have anything you can really sink your teeth into and change, but they get to make all sorts of innuendos about you and your work. Why is it that one of the comments always is "don't take this personally??????" The only part of the 360 evaluation that I think was useful was the part that David Galati did on focusing Council to come up with what they called "Strategies for Improvement" that were put in a work plan format. These I can get a handle on and focus my own energies. The 360 didn't do that for me at all. I know he did this same thing for Frank Sheridan in Sheridan. You might ask him how he felt about it as well. Good luck, Steven -- Sue Hollis City Manager -----Original Message----- From: Steven Weaver [mailto:sweaver@ci.carlton.or.us] Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 8:49 AM To: Oregon City/County Management Association Subject: [occma] 360 evaluation Dear fellow city managers: I am approaching my evaluation in October and the Mayor has decided to use the 360 degree evaluation using surveymonkey.com. Apparently she enters all the email addresses of the employees, council and planning commission and they send out a questionnaire and they return it back to the Mayor with the responses without giving names. I remember a discussion on the listserve a while back about this topic but I wanted to respond to the Mayor in writing as to why a 360 evaluation is a bad idea. Any input would be greatly appreciated? Thanks. Steven M. Weaver City Manager City of Carlton P.O. Box 458 Carlton, OR 97111 Phone: (503) 852-7575 Fax: (503) 852-7761 sweaver@ci.carlton.or.us --- You are currently subscribed to occma as: suehollis@ci.dayton.or.us. To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-occma-922H@list.orcities.org