Activities

This section offers a range of practical activities to help you develop your vision, challenge your assumptions and create realistic, achievable action plans.

Use them to involve all of the stakeholders in your project and encourage them to have their say or to clarify your thinking before sharing with a wider group.

Vision exploration

1-2 hrs 3-10+ people

Delve into your group's aspirations; a way to stimulate new thinking towards a shared vision of the future...

Vision exploration

Vision development

1-2 hrs 3-10+ people

Put your educational vision into practice with a group exercise that helps identify necessary changes.

Vision development

Creating your vision

4+ days 10+ people

Lead your school to a shared vision; a way of inspiring and motivating everyone towards a common goal.

Creating your vision

Capturing thoughts

1-2 hrs 1-10+ people

This is a way to clarify thoughts to encourage organised thinking: enabling you to turn ideas into actions.

Capturing thoughts

Test your plans

1 hr 1-10+ people

Inspire your group with two thought-provoking exercises that help improve planning skills.

Test your plans

Appraisal

30 mins 1-10+ people

Appraising strategy, reviewing school designs and improvements; here's a process that promotes clear group thinking.

Appraisal

Back casting

1-4 hrs 1-10+ people

Envision your ideal future - then work backwards to discover the steps you need to take from today.

Back casting

Future day

1-4 hrs 1-10+ people

Compare a typical working day with the ideal day - and propose changes aimed at achieving the ideal routine.

Future day

Do nothing

1-4 hrs 3-10+ people

No - not really! But by examining what might happen if we do nothing, we can see what is absolutely necessary...

Do nothing

Customise scenarios

1-2 hrs 1-10+ people

This shows how to adapt the flexible '6 scenarios' to your own context - inspiring your group to think about their futures.

Customise scenarios

Create your own scenarios

Weeks 3-10+ people

Giving everyone the chance to get involved and have their say on all issues facing your organisation.

Create your own scenarios

Turn visions into actions

4+ hrs 3-10+ people

Encourage cooperation in focusing on the logical order of tasks needed to achieve a shared aim.

Turn visions into actions

Agree your priorities

1-2hrs 3-10+ people

Involve everyone in attaching their own 'value' to a range of aims, before discussing and agreeing on the priority hierarchy.

Agree your priorities

Consult on choices

<1hr 10+ people

Using Power League, a fun and interactive web tool to encourage debate and rank opinions.

Consult on choices

Group warm-up

2+mins 3-10+ people

Fun group brainstorming to get people thinking together, and scribbling loads of ideas... in minutes!

Group warm-up