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Stories – what’s the point?

At Aspire, we integrate personal stories into our training rooms as a way to lift theories off the page and offer an additional lens through which to understand ourselves and our colleagues in the workplace and the first question we ask is:

What’s the point?

The smell of a freshly sharpened pencil

The taste of a New York slice of cheese pizza

The sight of a giant oak tree standing tall without its leaves against winter’s dimming light

Our senses stir up powerful images, offering us a portal into numerous stories from our own lives. Read more

Stretching our imaginations for strategic planning

Any vision for a strategic plan starts with a simple thought and that thought is born out of our imagination. It’s easy to think of strategic planning as a process driven activity but without imagination we have nothing to plan.

At Aspire we often come together to focus on stretching our imaginations for creative strategic planning.

Here are a couple of examples of how we do it:

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Tending to personal brand in uncertain times

As part of any leadership journey it is becoming clear that time spent tending to our authentic personal brand is increasingly important in these uncertain times.

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