Figment Solutions Consulting

Is your school community ALL IN? School culture, when led well, wins the hearts and minds of its people, maximizes commitment and contribution, and creates the conditions for a strong program model to flourish. By applying an intentional framework of culture-building practices to your unique context and mission, your school community can be all in. The practices are outlined in the recent book, ALL IN: An Educator’s Manual for Winning Hearts, Minds, and High Performance by Intentionally Leading School Culture”. Their application is limited only by the power of your imagination! Make that FIGMENT a reality that proliferates through every corner of your organization and its members, all in service of student achievement and human flourishing.

  • Executive Coaching

    Recurring one on one coaching to help you approach your day to day leadership challenges with an “all in” mindset.

  • Project-based Consulting

    Short term or long term engagements to shape, elevate, replicate, or reboot your school culture.

  • Trainings and Workshops

    Sessions about specific "all in" practices to help schools align core elements of school culture - contextualized to your school vision.

Sample Engagements

Executive Coaching

  • Ongoing coaching responsive to organizational challenges being faced by principals, administrators, network team members, etc. Scheduled in a recurring format for a specified duration. Focused on engaging stakeholders to maximize the potential for successful implementation of initiatives. Sample coaching topics may include:

    • Aligning program elements to maximize engagement with and fidelity to school mission

    • Building strong staff culture to maximize engagement and retention

    • Ensuring effective implementation of new initiatives by maximizing engagement and buy-in

    • Successfully replicating culture during growth and expansion

Project-based Consulting

  • Engagements tied to specific goals and outcomes. May be short-term or long-term. Time required may vary at different phases of the project. Schools and consultant work together to align on the desired scope of work and time and resources allotted.

  • Sample Project: Strategic Planning to Maximize Staff Retention

    A sequenced engagement to ensure school leadership is cultivating an environment that compels high commitment from staff. Outcomes for this sample project included:

    • Establish a clear vision and communications strategy for staff participation in the school program

    • Develop strategies to create the conditions for staff connection and participation in the vision for the school program

    • Align fiscal resources, time, and talent strategy in service of the vision

    • Ensure leadership is accountable to acting consistently in alignment with the established vision

  • Sample Project: Role Development for Culture-Focused Position

    A sequenced engagement customized to your school vision to ensure talent is being appropriately leveraged to proliferate strong culture. Outcomes for this sample project included:

    • Establish an outcome-driven job description for Culture Lead(s)

    • Establish a corresponding framework for evaluating Culture Lead effectiveness aligned to your organizational framework

    • Establish priorities and an annual scope and sequence for Culture Lead development

    • Establish a plan for ongoing coaching of Culture Leads

    • Monitor initial implementation

  • Sample Project: Culture Odyssey

    A sequenced engagement that goes all in to uplift school culture from the vision stage, through to engagement and execution. Outcomes for this sample project included:

    • Codify a detailed vision for school culture, inspired by your unique mission

    • Develop an aligned communications strategy; create impactful rituals, traditions, and visible artifacts to signal shared identity across all stakeholder groups

    • Create systems and experiences for all stakeholder groups to connect with each other and and participate in the mission

    • Ensure impact of execution through intentional strategy and alignment of time, treasure, and talent resources.

Trainings

  • 90 minutes targeted sessions, virtual or in-person. Designed to introduce school leaders or teams to specific concepts from the All In framework for leading culture, with time allotted for facilitated brainstorming around initial implementation. Schools and consultant work together to align on the desired topic.

  • Sample Training: Onboarding

    A training session on how to approach creation of your staff onboarding schedule to ensure your team develops the mindsets, skills, and relationships needed to bring your particular school vision to life.

  • Sample Training: Master Calendar

    A training session on how to develop a master calendar for your school context to ensure that all elements core to your vision are prioritized in effective balance.

  • Sample Training: All In Framework

    A training session on how to apply the All In framework to assess the impact and alignment of a core element of your school vision.

Workshops

  • Half Day or full day targeted sessions, virtual or in-person. Designed for school leaders or teams to dive deeply into specific concepts from the All In framework for leading culture, with the majority of time allotted for facilitated planning around implementation. Schools and consultant work together to align on the desired topic and outputs.

  • Sample Workshop: Vision-setting

    A guided reflection facilitated for your team to help you dream in detail about the element of organizational culture you seek to prioritize. Past vision elements schools have desired to explore include:

    • Vision for prioritizing special populations

    • Vision for network team culture

    • Vision for uplifting classical education

    • Vision for implementing restorative practices

    • Vision for building highly effective teams

  • Sample Workshop: Talent

    A guided reflection facilitated for your team to help you design a vision-driven strategy for recruitment, selection, and keeping staff warm that will fill your organization with staff who are all in for your vision. Exercises include:

    • Auditing marketing materials

    • Revising selection materials

    • Developing a plan to keep staff warm

Get Started

It all begins with an idea. The above examples are just that, examples. The possibilities are infinite! If your sense is that there is an opportunity to enhance the way your mission comes to life in your school culture, or to improve commitment among your students, families, or staff in service of maximizing achievement, don’t stand idle! Let's work together to make a plan that is just right for your time, budget, context, and vision.

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