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The Foundations
Our Model
About
Pricing

How do you
Shivoo?

Shivoo is a real time tool. It has no pre-work, no postwork. Simply walk into a meeting room (real world or virtual) with your team, open Shivoo and start at SQUIZ together.
Shivoo is deliberately designed to provide four things:

1. Shivoo teaches you how high performing teams develop

The model underpinning Shivoo distills the development of high performing teams into six practices to work on. Now when discussing team performance you and your team – and your wider organization – have a common language. This provides for precision, increased shared clarity, and tighter direction in your work on improving how your team can improve.

2. Shivoo assesses your development

The base function of the tool is to assess your team’s current performance against these six practices (each with two sub-practices). The assessment happens across two different methodologies – a standard mode and consensus mode. The tool produces a snapshot of your team’s current development stage, which you can then compare against your past results, or against the global database (or a subset thereof).

3. Shivoo provokes and elicits discussions you’ve never had before – in real time!

The inclusion of the unique real-time collaborative Consensus Mode will prompt your team to discuss and debate the individual questions within the tool while the team is completing them. The act of working with this tool will kick start constructive debates and encourages your team to deep dive further than they have before.

4. Shivoo partners you on your development journey

The practices underpinning Shivoo are practical. Use your most recent results, along with the trend from your previous results (all available for you to view at any time) to decide which practice or practices you wish to focus on developing. Then take advantage of the tips and hints associated with that practice to develop it. Or partner with a team coach or facilitator to help push you in the direction you need to go.

Importantly, your annual subscription allows you to run a Squiz (assessment) as often as you wish. Generally we recommend re-assessing once every 6-12 weeks to see progress being made and keep the team focused on its development.

Your access to all your previous squizzes, presented in an evolving dynamic animation, lets you see exactly how your developmental journey is progressing.

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.

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