Archive for the ‘Management’ Category

Knowing Isn’t Doing: The Hidden Cost of Good Communication

Posted by Liz McKechnie

We’ve all been there. We’ve sat in the comms workshops, read the books, nodded along to TED Talks about empathy, active listening, difficult conversations, and speaking your truth and yet, even with all that knowledge, we still find ourselves walking away from meetings thinking,

Why on earth did I say that?

or

Why didn’t I just listen properly?

At Aspire, we work with brilliant people—clever, experienced, emotionally intelligent leaders—who know what good communication looks like. So why don’t they always do it?

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Line Management: Top tips from our expert trainers

Posted by Kitty Bertenshaw

Line Management is one of our most popular courses, and that’s unsurprising when you consider that most people don’t really get taught how to be a manager. They learn how to do their job, whatever that may be, perhaps they get really brilliant at it, and then they get a promotion and are told they are a manager now. Great. Now what?

We spoke to our trainers to collect some words of wisdom from their, when combined, over a century of experience line managing and facilitating line management courses. Here are their top tips for being a great line manager.

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Rugby ball with hands - teamwork

The importance of shared responsibility and autonomy in the system for teams

Posted by Ian Guyah-Low

Shared responsibility through having autonomy in the system has led the England rugby team to the brink of a quarter-final place, winning three consecutive matches in the process.

The Rugby World Cup 2023 has descended on France, all eyes at home and abroad were fixated on the England team, their World Cup opener versus the Argentinian Pumas.

Saturday, 9th September, played at the State Velodrome, Marseille, 63,118 in attendance was the perfect backdrop to tighten the screw on an England team that had lost six of its previous nine matches. To put this in perspective, England had lost five of their last six.

Many, were baying for blood, the media eyeing its prey ready to inject its venomous bite into an English jugular. Read more