THRIVING SCHOOLS

CONSCIOUS SCHOOL LEADERS ∙ COHESIVE TEAMS ∙ HEALTHY CULTURE ∙ PEAK PERFORMANCE

It’s time to value and invest in school leadership.

Thriving schools are the sum of smart and conscious school leaders, strong and cohesive teams, and healthy culture. Within this connected ecosystem, learners thrive, delivering peak performances.

Thriving schools don’t happen by chance. A healthy, happy, and performing school is a choice. Not choosing is also a choice.

If your school is underperforming, experiencing staff and learner wellness issues, distrust and conflict, struggling with diversity issues, and dissatisfying sports results – it is time to make a choice.

The choice to make is Step-Up the school success development programme.

Stepping-UP

Step-Up’s aim is to establish healthy and connected school cultures. The Step-Up process is flexibly designed, taking into account the invariably busy school programme.

Step-Up is on the forefront of reshaping our understanding of school management and what our children and future need from the educational system. Step-Up is the blueprint for creating happy and thriving school communities.

The Step-Up approach is ideal for the complexity, diversity and challenges faced by school leadership. Step-Up collectively merges diversity into a unified movement of creativity and possibility, paving the way for beautiful performance. The Step-Up model embraces holistic and systemic thinking and is diversity, spiritually and culturally sensitive. Step-Up is the perfect pilot for developing and nurturing a culture of respect, dignity, accountability, and discipline to transform schools and education into a success story.

Step-Up is the encouragement school leaders have been looking for to reignite their passion and the key to change the story about education in South Africa. For principals, Step-Up is the opportunity to redesign their career and leave a legacy ꟷ positioning their school as a birthplace of possibility, shaping the future of children, and our nation.

Stepping-up for Schools

All services offered by Z2A are integrated into the Thriving School programme with special reference to:

High Performing School Leadership – executive meta-mind personal and leadership skills for principals, deputy-principals, heads of departments.
Leadership Teams – playbook for cohesive leadership teams for SMTs, SGBs, Student Leadership Teams and RCLs.
Team Leaders – high performance patterns for sport coaches, RCL-leaders, captains, student residence staff.
Staff and students – educational and motivational learning circles, workshops and talks.
Organisational Culture – clarity on and expression of values, character, and intent for school leadership teams, and every level within a school community.

The One-Stop School Makeover

We help schools in taking the lead, living, relating, and performing in new, better ways for their success.

A makeover is a high-intensity and intentional process. It works deeply, moves quickly, scrutinises all levels internally and includes external stakeholders. It is ideal for schools eager about stepping up their performance, leadership transitions, and schools experiencing conflict or going through a difficult time.

The content of the makeover will include a selection and combination of:

1:1 Educational Leadership Coaching (Executive Coaching)
Cohesive Team Leadership (Systemic Team Coaching)
Learning Circle Groups
Workshops and Masterclasses
Personal and Team Assessments
Vision Quest Retreats
3D Coaching – Sport Mental Conditioning
School workplace design and rebranding.

The One-Stop School Makeover is transformative process and 18–36-month project.

Secrets of Champions

Your life is one only you can win.

Secrets of Champions’ is a 14-session, 1-1 mental conditioning programme for high-performing students and athletes at all levels and ages. Participants will learn the secrets of champions to be in the zone and experience flow. They will be empowered with on-the-game and in-the-game skills.

Secrets of Champions is an inside-out approach focussing on mental areas including self-confidence, resilience, increased focus, dealing with pressure, setbacks, work-life balance, and happiness.

3D Coaching - Coaches & Educators

Sport Mental Conditioning Skills

Coaching the Meta-game

“Sport has the power to change the world.”

Nelson Mandela

If you want to get better, you want to be coached.

The 3D Coaching framework coaches the dimensions of Heart, Mind and Body. Why is three-dimensional coaching necessary? What makes it different?

3D brings joy back to the sport. 3D is the difference between good and great in motivation, discipline, resilience, team spirit, and performance.

In a competitive sports environment, fitness and conditioning are taken for granted. The difference in athletic performance is the mental game. The 3D framework is the answer for coaches wanting to improve their athletes’ mental conditioning.