Human skills for a world of AI
Tim Barrett helps staff teams and student teams reflect on how they work, and build the human skills that improve what a team achieves.
As AI takes on more of the routine work, the skills that matter most are human ones, and they can be taught.
We help schools and universities build the human skills their staff and students need to thrive in a world of AI. PRISM is an easy-to-use tool that helps teams prevent friction and perform at their best, backed by a curriculum designed by instructional designers to guide self-reflection and create team norms.
From self-reflection to team outcomes
Reflect
Each person looks at how they work, with their own profile and workbook.
Understand
The team sees where it is alike and where it differs, without blame.
Agree
The team follows steps to create team norms that give everyone a shared understanding.
PRISM® Workstyle and Leadership profiles
A 10 to 15 minute online assessment of how each person works and leads, on five dimensions. It is not a personality test, and there is no right or wrong result.
Drag a dot to place yourself, then read the question it raises.
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Power
FlatTop-Down -
Risk
TolerantAverse -
Identity
Self-DirectedGroup-Directed -
Speed
FasterSlower -
Messaging
DirectIndirect
Power: Flat
You prefer a collaborative and egalitarian approach, valuing equal input from all team members rather than deferring to authority.
A question to reflect onHow do we balance flat collaboration with clear leadership roles?
Six leadership archetypes
Your archetype is where you lead from most naturally. The skill is knowing when to flex.
From a profile to practice, in four modules
Every seat comes with a workbook that follows the Global TeamLEAD curriculum. Staff teams work through all four modules. Students take TeamWORK, TeamLEAD and TeamNORMS.
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How you work on each of the five dimensions, and how your team works.
You leave with a common language for difference.
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Your own leadership style, and the styles in your team.
You leave with a sense of when to flex, and what is missing.
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Psychological safety and intellectual honesty, and why a team needs both.
You leave with a clearer picture of trust in your team.
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Ways of working that everyone understands and can keep.
You leave with norms your team writes, tests and keeps.
Pages from the participant workbooks
Two profiles to choose from
Every seat includes the online assessment, a personal profile with an action plan, background reading and a workbook. No student email addresses or last names are recorded.
PRISM® Workstyle Profile
How a person works on the five dimensions. For anyone who works in a team, students included.
See the sample Workstyle Profile (PDF, opens in a new tab)
PRISM® Leadership Profile
Everything in the Workstyle Profile, plus the person’s leadership archetype and guidance on when to flex.
See the sample Leadership Profile (PDF, opens in a new tab)Information and price list for schools and universities
A two-page overview to print or forward: why this matters, the research, a sample profile, how a team reflects and debriefs, and current education pricing through Beacon Star Global.
Working with Tim
Three ways to bring this into a school or university. Each one starts with a free 15-minute conversation.
Keynotes
Tim speaks to schools and conferences on why cultural intelligence and global leadership are skills for the future, and why capabilities grounded in strong content knowledge are essential in an AI world.
Facilitation
Three-hour workshops for staff or student teams. Each person completes a PRISM profile, then Tim leads the group through what the results mean for how they work together.
Accredit your own staff
Staff train as PRISM Facilitators through Global TeamLEAD, licensed to buy and run the assessments themselves. It covers a one-hour online course, a two-hour online session with Tim, the facilitator manual and a year’s access to staff and student workbooks.
Tim Barrett
CEO and Founder of Beacon Star Global, and Director of the Somerset Institute.
Tim has worked with schools and organisations around the world to develop cultural intelligence, leadership capability and meaningful global partnerships. He is a PRISM® Master Facilitator, curriculum lead for Global TeamLEAD and a Lifetime Member of the Society of CQ Fellows. The global learning programme he led was named best co-curricular programme at the Australian Education Awards in 2019 and 2020.
Global collaborations include
- USA
- Mexico
- Singapore
- Hong Kong
- Scotland
- Japan
- Spain
- England
- Thailand
Grounded in a school
Tim is the Director of the Somerset Institute at Somerset College on the Gold Coast, Australia, a flagship school for PRISM®. The Institute is a partner in designing the PRISM curriculum and participant workbooks, so the work he brings to other schools and universities is grounded in real classroom experience.
Visit the Somerset Institute (opens in a new tab)
Start with a conversation
Tell Tim about your school or university and what you want to build. He will reply within two business days.
Have a PRISM access code?
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