Aspire is a self-assessment tool enabling you to obtain internal feedback on your organisation and to monitor the effectiveness of your Christian values in the workplace. It offers analysis and reports to enable you to find out how effective your organisation is in its:

• leadership
• relationships
• communication processes
• training and development of staff
• recruitment and resourcing processes
• remuneration and recognition processes
• christian foundations
• values and organisational culture
• integrity
• concern for individuals
• team working
• Christ-Centredness

By looking closely at who you are and what you do from different people's perspectives, you will see how to achieve greater godliness in the way you behave and function, and you will see how to improve your professional excellence.

How might this change my Christian organisation?

• You will get a 360 degree feedback and the reports needed to compare perceptions of different people within your organisation
• You will be able to give evidence that you meet 2003 legislation as an organisation based on religion (i.e. you can justify your Genuine Occupational Requirements (GORS) as introduced by Employment Equality Regulations 2003)
• You will be able to set benchmarks and evaluate yourself as a good Christian employer
• You will reduce risk and get evidence to meet SORP requirements, that you are a Christian organisation working in accordance with your objects
• You will be able to build towards, or build on, IIP
• You will have clear reports and recommendations to raise future standards, effectiveness and excellence, as well as an Aspire Adviser who can help you make action plans and fully evaluate your reports
• Aspire could provide some clear answers to your organisation’s own particular “issues” – whether these are related to your Christian values and ethos, or whether they concern operations, staff and building a team
• Aspire will give leaders confidence and concrete evidence that they and their organisation are “on the right track” in aiming towards greater Christian excellence
• Aspire will demonstrate to staff that the organisation they work for takes Christian values and how they are put into action seriously and are willing to listen, learn and move forward.

What you will get:

• Access for as many people as you wish in your organisation to complete the Aspire online questionnaires
• A full set of comprehensive reports , with in-depth analysis of all the questionnaire results for your organisation
• Time from an Aspire Accredited Adviser

The adviser
We believe that to get the most out of the Aspire reports requires a level of expertise and understanding of organisational development, in order to interpret them fully. As part of the Aspire package we provide access to some professional advice to help in drawing conclusions from the Aspire reports. This may be in the form of a visit or telephone support, as appropriate for your organisation.

Your Aspire Adviser can

• Help you to gain an in-depth understanding of your Aspire reports
• Discuss the implications for your organisation of both the reports and further analysis of your results from the Aspire questionnaire that they will provide
• Help you to decide (a) what areas / values / behaviours (if any) need improvement in your organisation, and (b) how you can get started on making appropriate changes
• provide you with a short report summarising the decisions you have discussed , and emphasising the key areas for development that you should build into an action plan for getting the best possible ongoing benefit from Aspire.

Cost
Aspire costs £499. This covers the costs of processing and analysing your results and providing time from an Aspire Adviser. However, we aim to make Aspire as widely available as possible, so the cost of registration is discounted to just £299 for smaller organisations (up to 20 staff and volunteers).

You can find out more about Aspire and the process involved, have a look at the type of questions your organisation will be asked, look at sample reports, or you can purchase Aspire now. If you have already taken the Aspire assessment, and want to review your organisation's reports, click on Enter Aspire.

Our  Thanks:
We are extremely grateful for the encouragement, support and generosity of Mike Perreau and the team at Pi Management in the creation of Aspire.  We have so appreciated Mike’s expertise and wisdom and the infrastructure and programming that PI and eKreative have so generously provided us in the development and launching of Aspire.