The Rapid Response Programme™
Helping you make rapid, long-term change - and bring everyone with you.
~ 8 lessons
~ Actionable plans for your leadership team and all staff
“Engaging SYCOL as our school improvement partner was an easy decision to make – the urgency and scale of the improvement required was very clear and I was worried that our improvement work. While absolutely necessary, it had been very much much about repairing damage and not about creating a sustainably successful school. It is this work that SYCOL are key partners in helping us to address – helping us to embed a culture of continuous improvement within all our staff, adding capacity to our fast-improving staff team. This is a real step forward in moving our school improvement culture beyond the ‘done-to’ model so familiar to schools in challenging circumstances to one that reflects our own ethos and our shared vision of the academy we want to become.”
Principal
Our Rapid Response programme™
Our programme will support you to rapidly attract, retain, and develop your leadership team and staff – reducing workload, saving everyone time, and enhancing wellbeing.
It’s a holistic approach that prioritises swift and effective change, while ensuring that everyone is engaged and involved in the process. The curriculum is fully flexible and adaptable to meet your unique context, empowering every leader and staff member with the necessary tools and knowledge.
To assist you further, we provide a comprehensive tracking tool that allows you to chart and report progress. Additionally, you will have access to downloadable resources and an online platform that guides you through each step of the programme, eliminating any uncertainties and providing a clear path towards achieving outstanding results.
With our programme, you can confidently navigate the journey of transformation, knowing that you have the necessary support, guidance, and resources at hand.
Hear more about the programme.
Want to hear a bit more about the programme itself? Then watch the video below for a quick introduction.
Our programme structure.
SYCOL's programme and framework is structured and taught across six key domains and each introduces a new set of content and skills to help leaders and staff build a resilient, self-improving organisation:
1 Core Framework
The Core Framework (CF) is a concise description of your organisation’s culture that needs to govern all your decision making and activity. The light-version (CFLV) contains three elements (Vision, Mission, Values), and the extended-version (CFEV) contains eight elements altogether.
2 Leadership
The Principles of Leadership (POL) help your leaders and teams adopt a decentralised, effective, and consistent approach. Leadership is a behaviour, not a role, and requires practice. The POL provide you with the skills and knowledge to lead a supportive and successful organisation.
3 Mindset
The Habits of Work and Learning (HOWLs) are a set of tracked skills and attitudes to support the mindset of all people and build a safe environment with an ambitious culture.
4 Innovation
Establishing a culture of continuous improvement that supports all your staff to take initiative and explore solutions is essential for success. To achieve this, we help you implement regular innovation cycles that allow for effective collaboration between staff that gives everyone a say in creating new solutions.
5 Alignment and Autonomy
Understanding the balance between alignment and autonomy is essential to ensure that you and your staff stay focused on your mission and standards and don’t get distracted by less important things. By making roles and boundaries clear, you can bring everyone with you and give people the creative freedoms to enjoy their work.
6 Culture
Measuring the effectiveness and value of your culture is important so that you can learn how to improve it further. This is better than traditional improvement models because we focus on your culture as the outcome of many variants, rather than as the outcome of ad-hoc improvement initiatives.
How is the programme delivered?
1 Leadership team
You and your leadership team will learn the principles and skills to effectively attract, retain and develop your staff and lead a thriving organisation, following a clear professional learning path.
2 Drive Team
Your Drive Team of staff will develop the skills and mindset to improve communication, collaboration and teamwork and support leadership in a bottom-up way through a combination of in–person and online training.
3 All staff
All members of your staff will learn about the mindset and skills that will improve engagement, motivation and wellbeing through induction and regular support. Our practical, flexible, and rewarding content is loved by all staff as they follow a clear and professional organisational path.
Our content.
The programme provides a range of valuable content.
3
Simple implementation phases – build, embed and sustain
6
Key domains with great content and curriculum
100+
Over a 100 resources for you to use on our platform
What's included?
We’ll support you and your staff with all of the necessary training and resources to help you develop everyone — our online content is just the start. Additionally, you will receive:
- valuable CPD for your leadership team, your drive team and every staff member
- posters, lanyards and memory joggers
- a tracker tool
- certification as one of our Learning Organisations, and more!
What's in a name - SYCOL?
It wasn’t something we procrastinated and pored over for months on end, wondering if it suited our values; it was actually far simpler than that. SYCOL was simple for psychology – and our roots are in psychology.
Some told us it was a poor choice because of a particular other company of a similar name (remember that? No, neither do we). What’s amazing is how we’ve grown into our name over the years. And now after nearly 15 years of being SYCOL, none of us can imagine being anything else. So today we are really proud of who we are, how we work, what we’ve achieved together. We are SYCOL, and psychologists worldwide approve.
Have some questions?
Here are some of the most frequently asked questions about our programme.
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See how SYCOL can help your organisation.
We’ve put together an information pack which outlines the programme, how it is implemented and the the impact you can expect to help you plan your next steps well.
Tell us about your challenge.
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