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Enspire Learning Announces Leadership Enspire™ Transformational Leadership Development Programs

Leadership Enspire™ programs help organizations identify, develop, and cultivate leadership talent through an effective blend of assessments, award-winning simulations, and collaborative learning experiences.

Austin, TX - Monday, October 3, 2005 - Enspire Learning, a leading provider of e-learning services, simulations, and blended learning programs, announced the launch of Leadership Enspire™, a customizable suite of leadership development services and programs, featuring effective assessments, award-winning simulations, and carefully designed follow-up activities.

"Leadership Enspire™ provides a fresh, innovative, and effective approach to building leadership capabilities," commented Bjorn Billhardt, Enspire Learning's CEO. "Traditional leadership training activities - seminars, PowerPoint slides, and books - continue to fall short in building real leadership capabilities. Participants often leave such programs with no insight into their leadership style, their strengths and weaknesses - or concrete ways to apply what they have learned in their daily lives. We've built Leadership Enspire™ to overcome these shortcomings by putting participants into immersive, rich, and relevant 'learn by doing' experiences that mix competition and collaboration. Leadership Enspire™ help organizations create tomorrow's leaders."

Leadership Enspire™ typically includes a customizable mix of four components

• - Insight. Self-knowledge is often cited as the single most important ingredient of effective leadership. Leadership Enspire™ utilizes honest, productive assessments and feedback tools to give participants insight into their development needs. Participants will set actionable development goals and begin working towards them.

• - Context. Leadership programs sometimes fall short of expectations when they lack a business context or clear ties to an organization's strategy. Leadership Enspire™ provides relevant business context to leadership development. Enspire works with its clients to develop a strategic leadership development plan and clearly communicate it with program participants.

• - Experience. In order for learners to apply new insights to their work environment, they need to be placed in experiences where application of new behavior is practiced. At the heart of Leadership Enspire™ are experiences such as Executive Challenge™, Enspire's award-winning leadership development simulation. Executive Challenge creates a fun, challenging environment with visceral decision and conflict points that are carefully designed, scripted, and debriefed. These types of experiential learning events encourage creative exploration, inspire learners, revitalize them, and equip them to change patterns of behavior.

• - Action. Meaningful simulation experiences must be followed up with action plans, coaching, mentoring, communities of practice, and other programs that reach into the daily lives of participants. Leadership Enspire™ develops strategies to reinforce the lessons of the training environment in the weeks and months after the intervention. Programs include carefully crafted follow through, coaching, and mentoring activities that ensure lasting change.

Enspire's programs are tailored to the specific leadership development needs of the client organization in order to provide a learning experience that is truly targeted to audience needs. Components of Leadership Enspire™, including Executive Challenge™ have also been customized and integrated into established leadership development programs providing an enhanced experience.

"As the need for effective leaders grows, many organizations still wonder if leadership is a skill that can be trained," added Billhardt. "We answer an emphatic, 'yes', but only when participants can participate in a truly relevant, insightful, and immersive experience such as Leadership Enspire™."

About Enspire Learning

Enspire Learning was founded in 2001 with the mission to create effective online learning. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Enspire Learning develops e-learning courses and leadership simulations that motivate learners with interactive multimedia and engaging scenarios. Our Interactive Case Studies™ and Business Leadership Simulations are relevant, immersive, and fun - driving real business results.

Contact

Lesley Caldwell
(512) 472-8400
lesley@enspire.com