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working hand in hand with the engineering industry

We recognise that you are in a diverse industry in both product and sophistication.

The aspire centre for leadership & management understand that your interests lie in retaining and enhancing management skills whilst creating high impact leadership which provides you with world class quality, process improvement and service that deliver success and profitability. You need to do this at the same time as 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 develop effective leaders and managers to enable you to create, communicate and implement strategies that reflect your current and future challenges.

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 engineering industry:

• managing change
• leadership essentials 
• transformational leadership 
• appraisal skills 
• interview skills 
• sustainable training excellence 
• teams and team building 
• communication 
• collaborative working 
• negotiating and influencing skills 
• ethics and probity 
• 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 supervisor through to senior management and board members.

Our programmes promote high impact leadership that enables your leaders to drive improvement and become catalysts for innovation and change – delivering flexible, high quality, cost effective and 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.

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do you want more effective management?

aspire recognise that you need a wide range of management skills and expertise to meet the diverse challenges and opportunities which you face in today’s engineering industry.

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.

Managing process improvement, performance and productivity are key success factors. They go hand in hand with the ability to attract, develop and retain high quality people with the technical competence, 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 give you practical tools, techniques and approaches to promote world-class management across all levels and functions, enabling your people to implement change, to meet your business objectives and the needs of a wide range of customers and stakeholders.

Your management development needs can be satisfied through uniquely tailored programmes designed in partnership with aspire.

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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. 

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why higher education could be the key to competitive, efficient and high quality yet cost effective service solutions

You know that performance, productivity, innovation 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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