ASCEND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT 360
Understand Yourself. Understand How Others See You. Build What’s Next.
You Can’t Develop What You Don’t Understand.
Most professional assessments end with a score. Ascend begins there.
You may know your experience. You may know your accomplishments. You may even have a
good sense of your strengths and weaknesses.
But do you know how others experience you?
Do you communicate the way you think you communicate?
Does your leadership have the impact you intend?
What happens to your decision-making when pressure increases?
Are your greatest strengths visible to others?
What might you be overlooking?
The Ascend Professional Development 360 is designed to help answer those questions.
It brings together multiple perspectives to create a deeper understanding of how
you communicate, lead, make decisions, perform under pressure, interact with others, and
perceive your own professional capabilities.
This isn’t about passing a test. It’s about discovering where you are today so you can deliberately build what comes next.
What We Evaluate:
PROFESSIONAL PRESENCE
COMMUNICATION
LEADERSHIP
EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
DECISION-MAKING & JUDGEMENT
PERFORMANCE UNDER PRESSURE
TEAMWORK & RELATIONSHIPS
ACCOUNTABILITY & PROFESSIONALISM
GROWTH & CAREER READINESS
SELF AWARENESS
01 — HOW YOU SEE YOURSELF
Ascend Self-Assessment
A comprehensive mixed-format assessment explores your self-perception, behaviors, judgment, professional experiences, tendencies, and responses to realistic situations.
We don’t simply ask:
“How good of a leader do you think you are?”
We want to understand why you see yourself the way you do.
ONE PERSON. THREE PERSPECTIVES.
02 — HOW OTHERS EXPERIENCE YOU
Confidential 360 Feedback
Selected supervisors, peers, colleagues, and/or direct reports provide confidential feedback about how they experience you professionally. This gives us something a self-assessment alone cannot provide:
PERCEPTION VS. EXPERIENCE
How you see yourself. How others experience you.
Where those perspectives align can validate important strengths.
Where they differ can reveal blind spots, misunderstood behaviors, communication gaps, or strengths you may be underestimating.
THE GAP ISN’T THE PROBLEM. THE GAP IS INFORMATION.
03 — HOW YOU SHOW UP
Ascend Coach Evaluation
Your Ascend coach provides a third perspective based on conversation, coaching interactions, observation, simulation, and performance exercises. This allows us to move beyond what you say you do and examine how certain behaviors may actually present themselves.
NOW WE COMPARE…
Self-Perception → Outside Perception → Observed Performance
And that’s where the Ascend 360 becomes much more than a questionnaire.
THEN WE CONNECT THE DOTS
Once the three perspectives are brought together, we begin looking for patterns.
DISTINGUISHING STRENGTHS
What consistently stands out as an asset.
DEVELOPMENT PRIORITIES
Where focused effort could produce meaningful improvement.
POTENTIAL BLIND SPOTS
Behaviors or tendencies you may not recognize in yourself.
UNDERRECOGNIZED STRENGTHS
Capabilities others see in you that you may undervalue.
PERCEPTION GAPS
Where your self-perception differs meaningfully from how others experience you.
PERFORMANCE PATTERNS
What changes—or remains consistent—when you are challenged or placed under pressure.
The goal isn’t to hand you a report and wish you luck. Your Ascend 360 findings become the foundation for an individualized professional development plan.
Prepare. Perform. Ascend.
