
working hand in hand with the construction and allied industries
We recognise that you are in a fast growing industry in both size and sophistication. You are faced with the need for high impact leadership and management that wins you world-class quality, success and profitability.
The aspire centre for leadership & management understand that your interests lie in creating and sustaining an acknowledged and enviable image for providing high quality products and services. You need to do this at the same time as delivering cost efficiencies and balancing the local, regional, national and international requirements of your customers, communities and stakeholders.
You know that to establish and maintain the winning edge you need to attract, develop and retain the right management and leadership skills to your organisation. You seek to realise this through pragmatic, credible and recognised training and development.
We can help you identify, communicate and implement the strategies that will address your current and future challenges. Through the development of your people we can help your business become even more successful.
Programmes may be non-accredited or attract nationally recognised qualifications or development awards. In order to provide quality, choice and flexibility, we work with the UK’s two main national and international providers of leadership, management, coaching and mentoring qualifications along with a number of higher education institutions.
how high impact taster days can let you see the potential at relatively low cost
These bespoke events are intensive, engaging and highly focussed. They provide cutting edge, practical tools and techniques for immediate impact in the workplace. Whilst we look forward to discussing your specific needs, here is a selection of workshops already used to great effect within the construction and allied industries:
- managing change
- leadership essentials
- transformational leadership
- appraisal skills
- interview skills
- sustainable training excellence
- teams and team building
- communication
- communities and partnership working
- collaborative working
- negotiating and influencing skills
- ethics and probity
- procurement
- corporate social responsibility
- embedding excellence
- performance management
Workshops may be stand alone or grouped to produce a structured development programme with or without accreditation. We can deliver you a bespoke high impact programme unique to your organisation through our ‘Build Your Own Programme’ option.
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how innovative leaders can give you the competitive edge
In order to create world class leadership, aspire recognises that it is critical to provide for the development needs of leaders at all levels. We have extensive experience in developing people – from the aspiring team leader or foreman through to senior management and board members.
Our programmes promote high impact leadership that enables your leaders to drive performance, innovation and change, and to deliver flexible, high quality and cost effective, winning outcomes.
We give you practical tools and techniques whilst building and embedding attitudes and behaviours that will help you meet the requirements of your many customers and stakeholders.
Your leadership development needs can be satisfied through a partnership approach with aspire to design uniquely tailored programmes. These may be non-accredited or attract nationally recognised qualifications or development awards. We work with the UK’s two main national and international providers of leadership and management qualifications along with a number of higher education institutions.
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do you want more effective management?
You need a wide range of management styles and abilities to meet the challenges and opportunities which you face in today’s construction industries.
Your managers must be highly effective, innovative, skilled and able to deliver to the expectations of a wide range of customers and stakeholders to provide competitive, efficient, high quality yet cost effective service solutions.
Performance and productivity are key. They go hand in hand with the ability to attract, develop and retain high quality staff with the skills, knowledge and attitudes you need in today’s hugely competitive global economic environment.
aspire is highly experienced in providing effective and high impact management development programmes. They promote world-class management across all levels and functions, enabling your people to implement change, to meet and exceed expectations.
We give you practical tools, techniques and approaches that will help you meet your business objectives.
Your management development needs can be satisfied through uniquely tailored programmes designed in partnership with aspire. These may be non-accredited or attract nationally recognised qualifications or development awards.
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how coaching helps you get the most from your greatest asset
"Your people are your greatest asset” the saying goes. Like most assets, they need investment to be able to achieve their maximum potential – support, inspiration, encouragement and development. This investment will quickly repay itself in increased and improved staff and customer satisfaction, raised self confidence and esteem along with improved retention over (often very short periods of) time.
Sometimes the coaching and mentoring activities you require are part of a larger leadership or management development programme. More often you will need them to be integral elements of leadership and management roles within your business to accelerate the development of innovation and skills with a powerful low cost solution.
Whether you seek to build coaching expertise in your leadership and management teams, a core of coaching specialists or one to one development for your executives and key staff – aspire’s highly experienced team can provide flexible, sustainable solutions that will help you unlock the potential in your people.
You will find improved performance, motivation and enthusiasm not only in the participants, but also those around them. Coaching and mentoring may also be provided concurrent with other leadership and management programmes, embedding new behaviours, skills and enhanced performance.
Coach and mentor development programmes may be non-accredited or attract nationally recognised qualifications or development awards.
why higher education could be the key to competitive, efficient and high quality yet cost effective service solutions
You know that performance, productivity and quality are key. You also recognise these go hand in hand with the ability to attract, develop and retain highly talented staff with the skills, knowledge and attitudes you need in today’s hugely competitive economic environment.
Foundation and honours degree programmes in leadership & management may be tailored to your business needs and are validated by our partner universities. They offer the opportunity for delivery on your own premises and even using contributions from your own specialists and experts.
These modular programmes offer a vehicle for your people to gain a higher education qualification whatever their previous qualifications may be.
An additional benefit of our partnership with these higher education institutions is the potential for your future progression to honours, masters and even doctorate levels.
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if you could get the right people doing the right things – just imagine how effective your business could be
Assessing a person’s ability or personality in a measured and structured way can aid your selection process and get the right people, with the right mix of abilities and personal qualities, in the right areas of your business – saving time and money. It can also enhance and focus the impact of your development programmes and individual coaching & development.
The aspire team is accredited and registered to deliver and interpret a range of psychometric and similar instruments. These powerful and focussed tools can be used to provide valuable information and indicators in a range of situations, including:
- organisational development
- team development
- personal development
- professional development
- other development programmes
- recruitment and selection
- programme evaluation
- succession planning
- performance appraisal
- coaching and mentoring
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