Our Guiding Principles
Culture Diagnostic Tools
CAT Scan for schools
The Culture Appraisal Tool (or CAT Scan) is a deceptively simple method to assess how a school’s culture stacks up against five pillars of high performance: Achieving Lofty Goals, Learning Mindset, Valuing Capabilities, Collaborative Community and Exceptional Leadership. These 5 pillars are identified as crucial to success in educational cultural reform, based on extensive education research and decades of collective experience. The CAT Scan refines and contextualizes the best ideas and metrics from global leading tools, to create the most simple but powerful diagnostic available to schools.
Designed specifically for Schools the CAT Scan takes out the complexity from culture so schools can focus on what is needed to start making improvements immediately. This makes it easier to enable thoughtful intervention from the Leadership team to create their desired culture and make life that bit easier for everyone.
human synergistics oci and oei
Culture Shock are highly experienced, accredited practitioners of Human-Synergistics a globally recognized standard in organisational culture transformation. The Organisational Culture Inventory (OCI) provides a profile of an organization’s operating culture in terms of the behaviors that members believe are required to "fit in and meet expectations" within their organization. The Organisational Effectiveness Inventory (OEI) complements the OCI by measuring the internal factors shaping the culture as well as additional outcomes such as individual work satisfaction and motivation, stress and fear, team collaboration and the extent to which the organization is providing the right services at high quality to its community. Human Synergistics (HS) is an extremely comprehensive and sophisticated framework to inform culture transformation.
Agile Tools for Covid-19
waggle for schools
We can now offer an innovative way to harness organisational wisdom and quickly steer culture in times of crisis. The technology from Waggl supports an Employee Voice pulse tool for schools but more excitingly it actually crowdsources ideas and potential solutions and in real-time allows employees to vote on the best ideas to drive faster action and alignment around critical topics.
In our experience if left to their own devices once a school or a system goes through the effort of diagnosing and analyzing their culture some schools can run out of the organizational energy to dig into what actions to take. An alternative approach is a lighter touch to quickly grasp how employees feel and provide leaders with a real-time cycle of inquiry, solutions and feedback.
Bonus Fact: A waggle is the name of the dance honeybees perform to communicate vital information to each other. In fact, there is no better natural analogy than the honeybee hive to describe how a healthy organization uses effective communication to align on decision making and take action.
RESILIENCE KIT
Leaders are now facing the more complex challenges of supporting their team remotely and trying to maintain a positive focus. It is tough to keep delivering under difficult circumstances with more demands and increased pressure.
The Human Synergistics Life Styles Inventory is the leading diagnostic for helping leaders gain actionable insights about how their mindset and thinking style impacts their wellbeing and ability to be effective. The Resilience Kit also includes the RISE coaching process to help leaders under pressure consolidate their understanding and turn insight into action.
Specialist consultation
We’ll work with you to manage your CAT scan and implement any combination of our facilitated meetings, interventions, leadership appraisals, workshops, coaching, follow-up assessments, and much more. All focused on simplicity and practical application.
Other services
Speaking Engagements
We love helping leaders understand culture.
Whether you need inspiring keynote speakers, or facilitators for interactive, hands on workshops, Culture Shock will make sure your event is amazing!
Benchmarking
We can benchmark your school’s key outcomes against high performing schools and organisations. This provides a confidential snapshot of how you compare and where to improve. Our diagnostic approach provides a roadmap to guide culture transformation specific to each school context.
Professional Development
We offer a range of workshops that are different. These aren’t your typical ‘Professional Development’ style sessions. Our sessions are laser focused on moving the needle on organisational culture and school effectiveness, and to tackle the things that matter most.
Simplicity and Clarity — achieve more with less.
Growth Mindset and innovation — lead a team that grows and adapts.
Courageous Leadership — be brave, drive transformation and inspire passion.
Collaborative Practice and Peer Coaching — gain consensus and learn from others.
The Art of Feedback — do it more and do it better.
Ambitious Strategic Planning — achieve big plans without burning out.
Developing tomorrows leaders — nurture the talent of emerging leaders.
Challenge and diversity — pushing boundaries, challenging ideas and encouraging diversity.
The 4S model — How to Sell, Show, Systemetise and Support culture change.
Human Synergistics Tools
To complement our range of bespoke school specific tools and diagnostics, we are also accredited in the full range of Human Synergistics Tools which is generally accepted as the gold standard of culture assessment and leadership development within Corporates.
Leadership Development Tools:
Life Styles Inventory The Life Styles Inventory™ (LSI) is a measurement and feedback tool designed to help individuals improve their effectiveness. The LSI is a great development tool for emerging school leaders, leading to greater self-awareness and insights to tackle the demands of school leadership.
Leadership Impact Leadership/Impact® (L/I) is a unique tool suited to executive level educational leaders involved with influencing the strategic direction of their school or school system, such as education directors, school principals and business managers. The L/I diagnostic provides feedback regarding the impact on the behaviours and ways of interactions of others, as well as the strategies and techniques that account for this impact. This feedback is invaluable as the impact leaders have on the behaviours of others is how cultural norms are established in schools.
Management Impact Management Impact (M/I) diagnostic provides those in operational leadership roles with information regarding how they approach their management responsibilities and the impact they have on the behaviour and performance of their colleagues and teams they lead.
Team Development:
Group Styles Inventory - Developing Effective Teams
The Group Styles Inventory™ (GSI) measures patterns of behaviours that emerge when people work together. This provides groups with feedback on the styles they exhibit when interacting to solve problems and make decisions. By responding to the inventory, a profile is generated in real time that depicts each team members perception of how the team approaches problem solving. When individual profiles are combined with all team members, an accurate profile is generated describing how effectively members worked together as a team.
Organisational Culture:
The Organisational Culture Inventory® (OCI) —
This goes to the heart of your organisation’s cultural make-up. It reveals what you’re really asking of your employees and how it affects their performance, motivation and job satisfaction — ultimately providing a foundation stone for achieving successful, sustainable cultural change.
The Organisational Effectiveness Inventory™ (OEI) —
This is your gateway to a deeper understanding of your organisation’s culture — gained through the perspectives of the people who live it every day. A partner to the Organisational Culture Inventory® (OCI), the OEI provides valid, reliable and useable data on the organisational structures, human resource and goal setting systems, job design and leadership skills and qualities that affect your school’s culture — and whether they need to change to improve performance and long-term effectiveness at individual, group and organisational levels.
