Growth Assessments for Entrepreneurs is a service for course creators and entrepreneurs that will track the transformation (or any construct) of your students from the moment they sign up for your course and the duration of their subscription. They (and you) will be able to track their growth (or transformation) in your program which will help sustain their subscription to your program as many people quit programs because they cannot feel the change they desire. This way their transformation and growth are visible and tracked as they matriculate through your course or program even if they cannot feel or sense it – yet!

Customized Assessment in-person at your offices

• I will come to your offices to facilitate a two-day workshop to create a customized assessment(s). You can create more than one if you’ve the personnel to dedicate to it.
• Together we will define what we intend to measure, identify the terms we will be measuring (usually character traits), define those terms according to what we intend to measure, and then write the assessment items.
• After refinement and completion, we will conduct a pilot study of the instrument to see if it measures what we intended to measure (construct validity). You will recruit 20 persons to take the assessment – hopefully set up in advance of the workshop.
• We will also make any necessary edits to the assessment after piloting it.
• After your target audience has taken the assessment for the first time, I will give two one-hour Zoom sessions to boost your students’ transformation journey.
• When finished you will have a fully functional assessment knowing that it is valid and reliable.

What you will have:

• This assessment will give your students a tool to track their transformation, growth, change, or progress in your course. They will be able to see their transformation begin – possibly even before they sense or feel it. It’s possible that the assessment will help them feel it. This will help retain them in your course and continue toward their desired transformation.
• Students can take the assessment as often as we deem it feasible given the construct (to be determined during the development phase – typically every three months).
• This assessment will also show you how well your students are doing and additionally will show you where you’re doing well and where you could need improvement. So, without their even knowing it, your students are giving you valuable feedback about the quality of your course.

Investment - $25,000

Customized Assessment in-person at a Chicago area hotel near O’Hare

• We will meet at a Chicago area hotel, and I will facilitate a two-day workshop to create a customized assessment with each client in a group setting
• Together we will define what we intend to measure, identify the terms we will be measuring (usually character traits), define those terms according to what we intend to measure, and then write the assessment items.
• After refinement and completion, we will conduct a pilot study of the instrument to see if it measures what we intended to measure (construct validity). You will recruit 20 persons to take the assessment – set up in advance of the workshop.
• We will also make any necessary edits to the assessment based on pilot study results
• After your target audience has taken the assessment for the first time, I will give two one-hour Zoom sessions to boost your students’ transformation journey.
• When finished you will have a fully functional assessment knowing that it is valid and reliable.

What you will have:

• This assessment will give your students a tool to track their transformation, growth, change, or progress in your course. They will be able to see their transformation begin – possibly even before they sense or feel it. It’s possible that the assessment will help them feel it. This will help retain them in your course and continue toward their desired transformation.
• Students can take the assessment as often as we deem it feasible given the construct (to be determined during the development phase).
• This assessment will also show you how well your students are doing and additionally will show you where you’re doing well and where you could need improvement. So, without their even knowing it, your students are giving you valuable feedback about the quality of your course.
• This will also serve as a mini-Master Mind because the conversation will include all of the clients in attendance. You may glean ideas from the conversation to add to your business or assessment.

Investment - $15,000 per client

Hybrid of video series and in-person at a Chicago area hotel near O’Hare (for up to 10 companies)

• Each company will complete the initial steps of developing the assessment in our video series. You will complete the series through Lesson X (I’ve yet to determine the number of lessons) and have that completed before arriving in Chicago
• We will meet in Chicago, and I will facilitate a day-long workshop to finalize your assessment you started in the video series.
• Together we will define what we intend to measure, identify the terms we will be measuring (usually character traits), define those terms according to what we intend to measure, and then write the assessment items.
• We will also make any necessary edits to the assessment
• When I and/or my team leave, you will have a fully functional assessment knowing that it is valid and reliable.
• After refinement and completion, we will conduct a pilot study of the instrument to see if it measures what we intended to measure (construct validity). You will recruit 20 people to help us pilot the assessment after the workshop. I will conduct the data analysis and finalize it over the next week after the workshop (as long as I receive the data for analysis in a timely manner).
• After your target audience has taken the assessment for the first time, I will give two one-hour Zoom sessions to boost your students’ transformation journey.

What you will have:

• This assessment will give your students a tool to track their transformation, growth, change, or progress in your course. They will be able to see their transformation begin – possibly even before they sense or feel it. It’s possible that the assessment will help them feel it. This will help retain them in your course and continue toward their desired transformation.
• Students can take the assessment as often as we deem it feasible given the construct (to be determined during the development phase).
• This assessment will also show you how well your students are doing and additionally will show you where you’re doing well and where you could need improvement. So, without their even knowing it, your students are giving you valuable feedback about the quality of your course.
• This will also serve as a mini-Master Mind because the conversation will include all of the clients in attendance. You may glean ideas from the conversation to add to your business or assessment.

Investment - $10,000 per client

A six-video series to lead you through the development of your growth assessment. Even though this is a video series, you will still have a semi-customized character-based assessment.

• Introductory video - describing the process and the goal of the assessment
• Define the construct we want to measure
• Identify the character traits required to be able to measure success for your course
• Define these character traits according to your construct
• Write your assessment items
• Create your rating scale - my default for assessments like these – almost never, seldom, occasionally, sometimes, moderately often, often, almost always - this scale works for every assessment developed for this purpose

Investment – $5,000

On-going data analysis of your students’ assessments - $750 per month or $7,500 per year