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Background
The Giftedness CenterSM (formerly known as The Hendricks Group) was founded in 1985 by Bill Hendricks, an author, business consultant, and graduate of St. Mark's School of Texas, Harvard University (B.A.), Boston University School of Public Communication (M.S.), and Dallas Theological Seminary (M.A.B.S.).
The phenomenon of giftedness was first recognized and studied in a formal way shortly after World War II by Bernard Haldane, a British doctor who emigrated to the United States in the 1930s.
In the late 1950s, Art Miller, Jr., director of personnel at Argonne National Labs, encountered Haldane's work and collaborated with him to learn what he had discovered about job fit. In 1961, Miller formed People Management International (PMI) and began to refine a systematic approach to identifying giftedness, called the System for Identifying Motivated Abilities (SIMA®).
An early adopter of the SIMA technology was the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. For the next two decades, the lab measured results of employee participation in SIMA-based workshops and programs Overseen by the renowned psychometric researcher Dr. John O. Crites, the studies concluded that SIMA was a highly effective approach for predicting employee success. The findings of Crites' research are available upon request.
In the 1980s and '90s, SIMA profiling was extensively researched in corporate settings through an initiative called The Leadership Profile Project. This was an exemplary study following the testing standards of the American Psychological Association. The study's outcome demonstrated high satisfaction with SIMA as a means of indicating meaningful choices for job satisfaction and personal success.
In 1982, Bill Hendricks was introduced to the ideas of Bernard Haldane, and used Haldane's process of Success Factor Analysis in making the decision to start his own consulting practice. Then in 1985, Bill met Ralph Mattson, a colleague of Art Miller's at PMI, who took him through the SIMA process. The information gained confirmed Bill's career choice, and Bill incorporated The Hendricks Group, now known as The Giftedness CenterSM.
Over the next decade, Bill collaborated on a number of SIMA-related projects with PMI and its clients. In 1996, he began co-writing a book with Art Miller on the subject of giftedness, now published under the title, The Power of Uniqueness (Zondervan, 1999). Today, The Giftedness CenterSM is an Affiliate of PMI. We use the best of SIMA research and expertise to help individuals make meaningful choices for their life and work, and to help companies work with people's natural motivation to maximize their value to the enterprise.
Over the past four decades, hundreds of thousands of individuals have gone through the SIMA process. In addition, hundreds of corporations, businesses, nonprofit groups, and churches throughout the world have used SIMA, including: Aetna, 3M, Battelle Northwest, Bell Laboratories, Boy Scouts of America, British Petroleum, Eastman Kodak, EXXON U.S.A., John Hancock, The Mayo Clinic, Merck, NASA, New York Life, Sarah Lee/DE (Netherlands), The Salvation Army, Union University, and Upjohn.
The Giftedness CenterSM (formerly known as The Hendricks Group) was founded in 1985 by Bill Hendricks, an author, business consultant, and graduate of St. Mark's School of Texas, Harvard University (B.A.), Boston University School of Public Communication (M.S.), and Dallas Theological Seminary (M.A.B.S.).
The phenomenon of giftedness was first recognized and studied in a formal way shortly after World War II by Bernard Haldane, a British doctor who emigrated to the United States in the 1930s.
In the late 1950s, Art Miller, Jr., director of personnel at Argonne National Labs, encountered Haldane's work and collaborated with him to learn what he had discovered about job fit. In 1961, Miller formed People Management International (PMI) and began to refine a systematic approach to identifying giftedness, called the System for Identifying Motivated Abilities (SIMA®).
An early adopter of the SIMA technology was the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. For the next two decades, the lab measured results of employee participation in SIMA-based workshops and programs Overseen by the renowned psychometric researcher Dr. John O. Crites, the studies concluded that SIMA was a highly effective approach for predicting employee success. The findings of Crites' research are available upon request.
In the 1980s and '90s, SIMA profiling was extensively researched in corporate settings through an initiative called The Leadership Profile Project. This was an exemplary study following the testing standards of the American Psychological Association. The study's outcome demonstrated high satisfaction with SIMA as a means of indicating meaningful choices for job satisfaction and personal success.
In 1982, Bill Hendricks was introduced to the ideas of Bernard Haldane, and used Haldane's process of Success Factor Analysis in making the decision to start his own consulting practice. Then in 1985, Bill met Ralph Mattson, a colleague of Art Miller's at PMI, who took him through the SIMA process. The information gained confirmed Bill's career choice, and Bill incorporated The Hendricks Group, now known as The Giftedness CenterSM.
Over the next decade, Bill collaborated on a number of SIMA-related projects with PMI and its clients. In 1996, he began co-writing a book with Art Miller on the subject of giftedness, now published under the title, The Power of Uniqueness (Zondervan, 1999). Today, The Giftedness CenterSM is an Affiliate of PMI. We use the best of SIMA research and expertise to help individuals make meaningful choices for their life and work, and to help companies work with people's natural motivation to maximize their value to the enterprise.
Over the past four decades, hundreds of thousands of individuals have gone through the SIMA process. In addition, hundreds of corporations, businesses, nonprofit groups, and churches throughout the world have used SIMA, including: Aetna, 3M, Battelle Northwest, Bell Laboratories, Boy Scouts of America, British Petroleum, Eastman Kodak, EXXON U.S.A., John Hancock, The Mayo Clinic, Merck, NASA, New York Life, Sarah Lee/DE (Netherlands), The Salvation Army, Union University, and Upjohn.
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