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Better together

Discuss, discover and debate your team's performance and capability, together and in real time. A new, unique assessment tool you can use to understand your current state, map out an improvement journey, track your progress, celebrate milestones, and compare yourself to other teams around the world.
All in real time.
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What is Shivoo

A "Shivoo" is a 19th century term for a get-together, and that's what this tool aims to do: make you better at being together.
Shivoo is a tool designed to improve team dynamics. It is based on 40+ years of practical experience, 10 years of academic research, and a PhD. It offers real-time analysis across 6 key metrics, tracks progress, provides data-driven benchmarks, and offers organizational comparisons. The tool can be completed in real time, together, as part of your regular team meeting, on your own or with your team coach, with tips for continuous improvement.
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What to expect

Go beyond traditional assessments. Our interactive platform provides a unique, engaging experience that fosters real-time collaboration. Assess your team's progress instantly, access comprehensive performance data, and gain valuable insights to drive immediate improvements.
ENGAGING BUT POWERFULGo beyond the simple and standard “answer the questions and spit out a report” format of most assessment tools. Shivoo questions don’t just assess your team, they provoke interesting and valuable team conversations, driving your team towards deeper self-understanding and collaborative engagement.
REAL TIME RESULTSGain instant, actionable insights. Our assessment instantly updates and compiles your team's responses, generating dynamic infographics that provide clear, visual insights into your progress, both during the session and over time.
ADVANCED COMPARISON TOOLSTeam comparison is a key aspect of development. Our tool lets you understand your team's competitive position with global, industry, regional, and level-specific comparisons. Gain a clear understanding of your team's development and identify emerging trends with Shivoo's detailed progress tracking.

Our model

Our research and experience with how team dynamics evolve over time has shown the “secret sauce” that drives teams on a journey to high performance. Our team development and performance model is built on the six practices that underpin this development journey.
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Get to know the practices
of a high performing team

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discomfortUncomfortable conversations are a fact of organizational life. High performing teams have those conversations well.
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social riskHigh performing teams can take disclosive and conflicting risks together. It’s sometimes called “psychological safety”.
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accountabilityHigh performing teams set expectations of each other and then hold team members to account.
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interpersonalTeams are built on the connections between team members. High performing teams have strong links.
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course correctHigh performing teams self-regulate (“Sense” and “Act”) in close to real time.
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sensemakingHigh performing teams use the team as a basis for continually updating their understanding of the world around them.

Time to have
a Squiz

Frequently asked questions

How does pricing work?
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Shivoo works on a subscription model. You subscribe to Shivoo, and pay one low price per year. While your subscription is active you can:

  • Run as many Squizzes as you like. We recommend you run one every 6-8 weeks or so, but there is not limit on the number you run with your team.
  • Review your team results as often as you like. No need to send away requests for reports, log in and see your results whenever you like.
  • Analyse how your results have changed over time.
  • Compare your results to the latest statistics from our global database.
  • Access our library of tips and hints and strategies on how to improve how your team works.

For more information, see our pricing page.

We have multiple teams in our organization, can we link them together?
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Yes! You can access Enterprise Shivoo with as few as two linked teams. Enterprise Shivoo gives you:

  • an enterprise administration page to manage your teams,
  • the ability to compare and contrast just the teams in your organization; and
  • access to Enterprise scaled pricing.

For more information, see our pricing page.

Can we run Shivoo by ourselves?
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Shivoo is designed to be able to be run either by yourselves in a team meeting, or facilitated by your team coach, training partner, or facilitator. Shivoo is very easy to use as a tool, however it provokes conversations about how your team is performing in real time.

Do I need to be accredited to run Shivoo?
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No! Shivoo is easy to use! Sign up, and if you’re feeling adventurous get started straight away. Or review our user guides and support before starting. Either way you’ll be using it like a pro in no time.

What is a "Squiz"?
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Shivoo is your team dynamic platform and tool. Each time you sit with your team and run the assessment tool to capture new data we call that a “Squiz”. A squiz is an Australian colloquial term for “having a look”. Hence you’re pausing to “have a squiz at your team.” Feel free to stick a “mate” in there if it helps!

What data do you capture and hold?
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Unlike most other assessment tools, the unit of analysis in Shivoo is the team, not the individual. We are interested together in studying how your team works, not in individuals within the team. This means we track and store team data, but not individual data.

We track the input answers and results for your team in order to present those results back to you. We tag your team with the demographic data you supplied to us in order to provide a filtered comparison for other teams (your team benefits from this as well).

We do not track any individual answers from individuals within each team. This means we can’t report individual answers to team leaders, organizational admins, or elsewhere – we don’t track this. In addition we don’t take or store any personal or identifiable data about any individual who answers a Squiz within a subscribed Shivoo. We do ask for your email address and name if you complete a solo free Squiz.

For more information, consult our privacy policy.

Is this a credible tool? Does it have a robust basis?
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Our combined 40+ years of field research and practical experience in working with teams, and more than 10 years of academic research into the complex dynamics of teams resulted in a PhD in complex team dynamics. From this PhD (Maxwell, 2022) Shivoo was born. Shivoo is grounded in the complex teams work of Stacey, Snowden (Cynefin) and Arrow, and in the development and deliberate practice work of K. Anders Ericsson. It is a tool that outlines the six practices teams need to continually work at in order to develop and improve, no matter their context or level.

For more detailed information on the research basis behind Shivoo see:

If I cancel my subscription do I lose access to my data?
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In short: yes you do. If your subscription lapses, your de-identified team results will stay in the data sea that comprises our comparison basis, but they won’t be retrievable at an individual level any more. Not only will you lose access to them, that access will not be recoverable should you change your mind. This protects the privacy of people who choose to stop using our service.