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Fees

Giftedness has many uses in the life of a company. Since most of our work with organizations is customized, we prefer to discuss your specific needs and budget, and prepare an appropriate plan to meet them. The items described below can guide you in thinking through the level of service desired.

New Project Size-Up
When dealing with new clients, or when taking on new projects for old clients, we must evaluate a company's needs and determine how (and whether) we can be useful. When this discovery process involves more than an introductory phone call, we ask the client to bear the cost of our expertise to assess the situation and its demands. At the conclusion of this size-up, we will furnish a brief written statement of our analysis and recommendations.

Giftedness Profile^®
This is the core assessment upon which all of our services are based. A Giftedness Profile^® includes the following:

Preparatory worksheet to obtain key information and questions
In-depth interview (generally 2 hours in length)
Systematic analysis of interview transcript using proprietary methodology
30-page report summarizing the person's Motivated Abilities Pattern (MAP^®)
2-page Giftedness Profile^® report addressing the specific questions the individual needs answered (e.g. career options, job decision, learning style, etc.)
2-hour consultation to provide feedback, answer questions, and determine next steps (session taped for the participant's benefit)

Specialized Reports
Information on giftedness can be used to answer countless questions about an individual employee. A Giftedness Profile® always includes at least one interpretive report that addresses a specific question or issue. However, additional reports can be furnished at any time. Topics include:

Best use
Job-fit analysis
How the person learns
How the person communicates
How the person is best supervised
Leadership
Management
Sales
Teaming
Optimizing performance and success
Career development

If you have questions about an area not mentioned above, contact us to ask for more information.

Discover Your Design
Discover Your Design (DYD) is an on-site workshop designed to assess giftedness for groups and teams of employees at significantly reduced cost. Led by a team from The Giftedness Center^SM, DYD involves a hands-on, highly interactive process by which participants identify key elements of their core strengths and motivation, then apply that information to real-time issues they are facing in their jobs. DYD is available in either one-day or two-day formats. We will discuss with you ahead of time which format seems best for your group, and tailor the workshop to address the specific concerns of your company. For example:

Teamwork
Communication
Career development
Leadership

Hiring Reports
We offer a process called The Confidence Report® for assessing how well a specific candidate matches a specific position. This quick but highly effective process is a cost-effective way to provide hiring managers with the most accurate and relevant information they need to evaluate the advisability of a prospective hire.

To develop a Confidence Report^®, we first assess the particulars of the position in question. This involves answering a brief questionnaire, followed by a brief interview with the hiring manager to gain a complete understanding of the position.

Next we interview any candidates for the position that the company has pre-qualified and to whom it may be interested in offering the position. We conduct a 45-minute interview with each candidate (usually over the phone), then use our proprietary methodology to analyze the relative match between person and position. Upon completing our analysis, we contact the hiring manager and provide a verbal report and answer questions concerning the candidate (s).

Written reports are available for an additional fee.

Teams
Our work with teams is highly customized and depends on the particular needs and concerns of the team as presented by the team leader or manager. However, all of our work with teams involves the development of an individual Giftedness Profile^® for each team member, as described above. Once we have that information, we can develop a "side-by-side" Team Profile^® which shows the giftedness of all the members of the team on a single report. We meet with the entire team to go over the Team Profile^® and discuss its implications for the team's functioning.

Coaching
Individualized coaching is available for key leaders, managers, and executives who want to optimize their performance, achieve specific goals, or undergo personal change. A personalized plan will be developed at the outset of the engagement, specifying objectives, frequency of sessions, timetable, anticipated exercises, assignments, and projects, and fees.

Executive Search
The Giftedness Center^SM is exclusively committed to retained executive search, as opposed to contingency search. Our fees are based on the industry standard of one-third of the successful candidate's first-year's compensation, plus expenses.

General Consulting
When our work involves time in addition to the hours built into the services described above, we charge an hourly fee.