5 benefits of doing school strategy sessions with McCrindle

It’s day one. You’ve started as the new principal of an established school. It is great news for you, however as you walk from your car to the admin building to find your new office, the reality of the challenge and opportunity at hand starts to dawn on you.

As a principal, you need to lead staff, students and the wider school community forwards. You’ve got a vision and purpose to fulfill which is why you’ve taken on this role. Yet now you’ve also got to come up with solutions for an array of things; dealing with online bullying on social media, staff wellbeing, digital device policies, holistic care for students and academic performance, managing enrolments and funding challenges, to name a few. And this is all before you’ve even opened up your emails to see what else is coming your way on day one.

What help would you like if you were the principal of an established school?

At McCrindle we help school leaders:

  1. Be forward-thinking leaders that make confident decisions about the future

As futurists, demographers and social researchers, we love studying trends using historical analysis, future population projections, and the latest market insights. You’ve got big decisions to make and we’ve got the data to help inform your strategic thinking. You can see the future clearly when relying on robust data.

   2. Improve the strategic thinking capability in your leaders

More than just equipping a leader, we love equipping leadership communities. We do this by not only providing the data and insights in our reports, infographics and masterclasses, but by facilitating workshops and presenting trends to equip your leadership team and encourage critical thinking. You’ve got a whole community of leaders to develop and we can provide resources, sessions and engaging input that generates bold ideas, robust discussions and collaborative environments.

   3. Understand the broader context with knowledge across multiple industries

We aren’t just education researchers; we specialise in understanding human behaviour through social and demographic research. Our range of studies explore topics ranging from how humans behave when participating in charitable giving to shopping preferences, communication and social media usage habits, community participation practices, wellbeing and mental health, as well as to why people name babies the way they do! Our breadth of studies across so many industries give us more data to see mega trends clearly. These insights give you fresh market ideas, new metrics of success and outside-of-the-box thinking to gain a competitive advantage.

   4. Engage with beautiful insights that bring data to life

We love data, but even more so, we love beautiful insights. Our passion is bringing data to life. Mark McCrindle even delivered the TEDx talk on this very topic! We set data free through infographics, and have free infographics on a range of topics to get you and your team up to date quickly. Our latest range of infographics on the generations are a wonderful resource for leaders to understand and engage a multi-generational workforce. Not only do you learn faster, but it can be inspiring to dig into the data when it is presented beautifully.

    5. Have ongoing access to a range of helpful resources

You’ve got a curios outlook and so do we! We love exploring a range of topics and we deliver insights in a range of formats to help engage different learning styles. From visual reports to our infographic snapshots, our podcast, YouTube videos, articles and masterclass videos – these are all ready for your consumption.