Feedback on performance
Clear, kind and specific.
LEADERSHIP & MANAGER DEVELOPMENT
Every manager has a conversation
they keep putting off.
Your leadership program reaches managers a few days a year. The hard conversations happen every week. Give every manager, not just the high-potentials, a private place to practice them on your leadership model.
THE PROBLEM
Leadership development
shouldn’t be a perk.
Coaching goes to a handful of senior leaders. Most first-time managers get a workshop, then figure out the rest on their own team.
✕Coaching for a fewThe managers who need it most rarely get a coach.
✕Workshops that fadeMost of a training day is gone within a week.
✕Impact that’s hard to showAttendance is easy to report. Better conversations aren’t.
WHAT YOUR PEOPLE PRACTICE
The conversations nobody
wants to get wrong.
These are the moments that decide whether people stay, grow or quietly check out.
The first one-on-one
Build trust from day one.
A performance plan
Firm, fair and documented.
Saying no upward
Protect the team’s focus.
The board question
Own the miss, show the plan.
Leading through change
A reorg, a layoff, a new strategy.
INSIDE THE PRODUCT
Rehearse the review
before you give it.
Describe the person
Who they are, what has happened and how they tend to react. The AI plays them.
Have the conversation
Practice in private, on video, as many times as you need.
Get coached on your model
Scored on your leadership framework, with the exact moment that mattered and one change to make.
NO INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGNER REQUIRED
Start from what
you already have.
You don’t need to hire an instructional designer or rebuild your program. Bring whatever you have, and nSpire turns it into practice scored on your standard.
Bring your method
Your leadership model or competencies become the scorecard.
Or your training content
Workshop material and manager guides become practice before and after each session.
Or just describe it
A manager describes the report they’re worried about, and the practice is built around that person.
A first working program in 72 hours. Built with you, then anyone on your team can add new practice in minutes.
TRY IT
Sam missed another deadline.
How do you start?
Pick an answer and see how Sam reacts, then read the coaching your manager would get.
The product adapts to anything you say. This preview uses three curated answers so you can explore quickly.
Interactive previewSIMULATION · 01 / 03
Your AI direct report
Sam, senior engineer · Third missed deadline
“I know the release slipped again. But the scope kept changing, and nobody told me.”
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY NEXT?
SAM RESPONDS
AI COACHING NOTE
Scripted website demonstration. Not a live AI session.
GROWTH YOU CAN SHOW
Proof they improved,
not proof they attended.
Every practice is scored on your standard, so you see a trend for each person and each team instead of a completion checkbox.
✓Every manager, same standardCoached on your model, in every region.
↗Skill trends by cohortSee which skills moved after each program.
✦Proof for your next reviewShow leadership what changed, not just who attended.
Skill trend · one learnerIllustrative
Five practices of the same conversation over three weeksBiggest gain: asking before answering. Next focus: naming a clear next step.
FROM AN EXECUTIVE COACH
“It mirrors almost exactly what I would have given them.”
LeeAundra Keany coaches executives and teaches at UCLA Anderson. She blind-reviewed her students’ sessions before comparing her notes with nSpire’s.
“
When I read the feedback that nSpire gives my students, it mirrors almost exactly what I would have given them, if I had the time to spend that quality one-on-one observation.
LeeAundra KeanyExecutive communications coach · UCLA Anderson faculty
QUESTIONS
The short answers.
Who sees a manager’s practice sessions?
By default, only the manager. You decide what program leads can see, such as completion and skill trends.
Can we use our own leadership framework?
Yes. Upload it and every conversation is scored against it.
Does it work for senior leaders?
Yes. Executive scenarios cover board questions, investor updates and high-stakes negotiations.
Do you work with fractional CHROs and HR consultants?
Yes. Many run nSpire across several client companies, each with its own leadership model and private space. Ask us about the partner program.
Which conversation are
your managers avoiding?
Tell us. We’ll build it on your leadership model and walk you through it in thirty minutes.