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Rate yourself
About 15 minutes. You answer the same statements your raters will, so your report can set your view beside theirs.
PROOF: THE POS 360™
See your leadership the way the people around you see it.
What you do. What others see. What it returns.
A 360 for leaders who would rather know than guess. The people who work with you rate what they have actually seen you do, and you get a clear report on where to start.
Add a 60-minute debrief with Wes at checkout for $246 more.
You can't see your own leadership from the inside.
Most leaders find out how they come across the hard way: an exit interview, a project that stalls, a good person who quietly checks out. By then the gap has usually been there for months.
PROOF closes that gap on purpose. It puts what you intend next to what the people around you experience, so you can work on the difference before it costs you.
How it works
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Invite 8 to 12 raters
People who have worked with you for at least three months within the last six: peers, direct reports, your manager or board. We send each one an invitation and two reminders.
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Get your report
Your Leadership Advantage Report arrives in your private leader hub within five business days after your last rater finishes.
What PROOF measures
36 statements about things a leader does: six for each of the five pillars of the People Optimization System™, and six for Communication, the mechanism all five run through. Every statement is something a rater could have seen you do. Behavior, not intentions.
Direction
Where the organization is going, and whether everyone in it can say so.
Values
What the organization will and won't do, operating in the week rather than on the wall.
Leadership
The people who carry it, and whether they are being built or just promoted.
Growth
The capacity to reach a vision set beyond the organization's current ability.
Experience
What it is like to work here, buy here, and live next to here.
Communication
Whether what was said is what was heard, up, down and across. Not a sixth pillar: the mechanism the other five run through.
What your Leadership Advantage Report shows
- Who answered, by group
- Where to start: the one area to work on first
- Your view beside theirs, area by area
- Blind spots and hidden strengths: where you and your raters see it differently
- What people said, grouped by theme
- The results you delivered
- Every statement, broken out by rater group
It is a working document, not a score. It tells you where to put your effort next.
Honest answers need a safe place to land
Names are never attached
Rater answers are stored apart from who gave them. You see results by group, never by person.
Small groups are combined
If fewer than three people respond in a group, their answers fold into another group before anyone sees them. A manager or board view is shown on its own, and raters are told that up front.
Your report is yours
When you buy PROOF, you decide who else sees your report.
Development only
PROOF is for growth. It is never to be used for reviews, pay, discipline or hiring.
Read the full PROOF Data and Ownership Policy.
Choose how you want to start
PROOF Report
$249
- Private leader hub with your personal links
- Self-rating plus 8 to 12 raters
- Invitations and reminders handled for you
- Leadership Advantage Report within five business days of your last rater
Report + Debrief
$495
- Private leader hub with your personal links
- Self-rating plus 8 to 12 raters
- Invitations and reminders handled for you
- Leadership Advantage Report within five business days of your last rater
- A 60-minute virtual debrief with Wes to turn your report into a plan, booked once your report arrives
On checkout, choose the debrief as an add-on. Full refund before your first invitation goes out; once invitations go out, the work has started and purchases can't be refunded. See the PROOF Terms of Purchase.
Buying for several leaders?
We'll set PROOF up for your team, quote it, and invoice your organization. The person who arranges it can see each sponsored leader's full report, and every leader gets a private debrief first. Once three or more of your leaders finish, we can also show you a team picture.
Questions leaders ask
How long does it take my raters?
About 15 minutes. They rate 36 statements by how often they saw you do each one, then answer two short written questions.
Who should I invite?
Eight to twelve people who have worked with you for at least three months within the last six months. Aim for at least three peers and three direct reports, plus your manager or board if you have one.
Will I know who said what?
No. Answers are stored apart from names, and you see results by group. If fewer than three people respond in a group, their answers are combined with another group first. Written comments are lightly edited only to remove details that would identify someone.
Can my employer see my report?
If you buy PROOF yourself, the report is yours and you decide who sees it. If your organization arranges it, the person who arranged it sees the full report too, and you and your raters are told that before anyone answers.
How is this different from the free POS assessments?
The free assessments are answered by one person about the organization. PROOF is answered by the people around you, about you.
What if a rater can't find their invitation?
Email us at admin@dove-development.net and we'll send them a direct link.
Can I get a refund?
Yes, a full refund until your first invitation goes out. After that the work has started, so purchases can't be refunded.
Find out what the people around you already know.
PROOF is part of the People Optimization System™, delivered by Dove Development & Consulting. Wes and Cindy Dove have been developing leaders together since 2015.