To me, the answer is easy. If the agreement amongst everyone and the program design is to not share with management, then don't share. You will only be adhering to the expectations and guidelines that everyone originally agreed to.
If they want an assessment program then it should be designed and presented as such from the beginning to all involved parties. If you feel comfortable designing and running such a program, pitch it to them!
To disclose information that is supposed to be confidential can definitely be perceived as a huge violation of trust. Building and maintaining trust within a team is a very important leadership skill. If the management doesn't understand that, maybe they need to go through a program themselves.
That's my opinion- best of luck!
Mandy
On Jul 30, 2011, at 1:23 PM, outdooreducation+noreply@googlegroups.com wrote:
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> Topic: Corporate Adventure Leadership - Development or Asessment?
> Samad <samadtrek...@gmail.com> Jul 30 04:23AM -0700 ^
> During last 10 years, I have conducted corporate leadership adventure
> programs in Pakistan. In these programs, our stance was that since it
> is a development program therefore we don’t share the strengths of
> weaknesses of participants with their decision makers otherwise it
> will become an assessment camp. With this principle stand point, we
> gain the confidence of participants and they come out natural as they
> know whatever behaviors they’ll demonstrate will not be shared with
> their management. We compile individual confidential reports about
> each individual’s leadership demonstration and this goes to that
> respective participant only. For last 2 years, we are facing a
> situation where our client asks us to share our feedback with them
> about the participants. They say, our company is investing this much
> money on these individuals and we have our internal leadership
> development program, for that we need to know who stands where as a
> leader. Now how do you advise we should respond to this situation.
> Should we stick with our stance that we’ll not share anything with
> management, just with participants thus maintaining the posture of
> development program or facilitate the decision makers by sharing our
> assessment about leaders.
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