Leadership Development & Assessments

Challenging you and your leaders to grow and change.

The cornerstones of Aspire’s customizable leadership development solutions are:

Positive leadership principles
Trust-building
Conversational intelligence skills
Creating a culture of belonging
Ensuring accountable execution of practices

We expect to be challenged to grow and change. Your leaders should come expecting that for themselves.

Customizable Leadership Development Solutions:

A "blocking and tackling" leadership development experience focused on building the leader’s self-awareness about the implications of their leadership role on others, and an understanding of the different behavior styles a leader must successfully interact with and lead.
Employee engagement and effective communication strategies are covered, as well as personal leadership topics, such as time and priority management.
AMP Up Your Leadership is also available for anyone who needs skills in practical, tactical leadership. This course builds leadership skills that positively impact both people and productivity. Each module, tool, and practice builds on the other, creating the scaffolding to lift individuals to their next level of leadership.
This experience focuses on developing organizational awareness, fostering culture, and building executive presence and strategic thinking skills to move to the next level of leadership.
Moving to executive leadership, either at the VP or C-Suite level, requires a new level of diplomacy and political acumen, such as strategic thinking, planning and execution. It also requires different dimensions of executive presence, vision-casting, and engagement through storytelling.
This experience requires participants to solicit and process a significant amount of feedback/feedforward. Participating leaders, dyads, and/or teams should be prepared for a high degree of candor.

Assessments available:

Leveraging the CreatingWE™ Institute’s Trust Catalyst Tools we can provide in-depth insights regarding seven dimensions of trust-building behaviors of Conversational Intelligence.
These assessments can be delivered to individuals, teams, divisions, and across organizations to assess levels of trust and Conversational Intelligence. They provide a road-map for trust-building at every level of the organization.
This assessment provides insight into the four aspects of a team’s work cycle. From vision to execution it will illuminate the continuum of how role styles leaders can exercise within each aspect of the work cycle.
This assessment is well suited for divisional leadership teams, as well as intact working teams.
These behavioral assessments for employees and leaders provide key insights for effective communication, provide a foundation for team-building strategies, empower leadership development, and highlight opportunities to cultivate greater self-awareness and other-awareness for every level of employee and leader.
360 assessments are available for C-Suite level executives, vice presidents, and director level leaders. We recommend 360s be leveraged to develop and grow next-level performance. Other human resource tools are preferred for performance management concerns.
Our C-Suite 360 is a comprehensive, multiple assessment experience, debriefed by an expert executive-level performance coach. Assessments can be tailored to include key external stakeholders.
Our Leader 360 provides leaders with a thorough, 360 degree view of their professional performance within an organization. This experience is debriefed by an individual performance coach. The debrief is a two part process:
- first with the individual and their performance coach 1:1,
- next with the individual, their leader, and their performance coach. A learning and development plan emerges from this second debrief.