Personal training and development delivery system

• US 6,338,628 B1
• Filed: 02/15/2000
• Issued: 01/15/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 02/15/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Clear Direction Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Clear Direction Incorporated
• Inventors: Smith, Robert K.
• Primary Examiner(s): Cheng, Joe H.
• Assistant Examiner(s): MOSSER, KATHLEEN MICHELE
• Application Number:
  US09/504,406
• Time in Patent Office: 700 Days
• Field of Search: 434/236, 434/350, 434/322, 434/323
• US Class Current: 434/236
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 7/02 of the type wherein the student is expected to construct an answer to the question which is presented or wherein the machine gives an answer to the question presented by a student

Abstract

A personalized training and development methodology that determines an individual'"'"'s strengths and weaknesses and automatically provides training and development exercises that focus on reinforcing an individual'"'"'s strengths and modifying his behavioral weaknesses. An individual logs on to the Internet personalized training and development training website, or an Intranet of his firm or company, and takes the Kinsel-Hartman Profile which includes four or five lists of 18 statements each. Each of the 18 statements in each list of the profile are formal representations of value combinations. An individual ranks all 18 statements in each list which in turn are used to create a profile report. This report presents the person'"'"'s blended scores of his thinking, combining his bias and capacities concerning each dimension of value. The report also gives a composite of his world thinking and one of his self thinking where all three dimensional orientations are put together into an overview of his perspective. The application software ranks those thinking orientations that serve as strengths and those that serve as weaknesses into an order that determines which training and development reminders are sent to the person and in which particular order. The application software then schedules the sending of those training and development reminders on a periodic basis.

Claims

1. A personal training and development delivery system for providing systematic training and development reminders and exercises to a program participant over a communications network to reinforce the participant'"'"'s strengths and to modify the participant'"'"'s behavioral weaknesses, comprising:

a personal profile application program providing a user interface to enable the participant to rank a plurality of statements on each of a plurality of value tasks;

a server hosting the personal profile application program, the application program comprising processing logic that

blends a clarity score and a bias score for each of a set of value dimensions and each of a set of views determined from the ranking of statements on each value task into a single set of personal profile scores that are a measure of the participant'"'"'s strengths and weaknesses; and

analyzes the profile scores to determine the participant'"'"'s principal strengths and weaknesses; and

a personal training and development database including a plurality of training and development exercises which are selected and presented to the participant in a determined order to motivate ongoing participation based on an evaluation and multivariable analysis of the participant'"'"'s clarities and biases for the set of value dimensions and the set of views.

2. The personal training and development system of claim 1 wherein the communications network is the Internet.

3. The personal training and development system of claim 1 further comprising a computing system for use by the participant in accessing the server remotely over the communications network.

4. The personal training and development system of claim 3 wherein the computing system includes any one of a desktop computer, a workstation, a notebook computer, a handheld personal digital assistant, a cellular phone, and an interactive pager.

5. The personal training and development system of claim 3 wherein the computing system accesses the server by a wired connection.

6. The personal training and development system of claim 3 wherein the computing system accesses the server by a wireless connection.

7. A method for providing systematic training and development reminders and exercises to a participant in a personal training and development program that reinforce the participant'"'"'s measured strengths and address the participant'"'"'s weaknesses, comprising the acts of:

accessing a server hosting a personal profile application program from a personal computing system to take a value profile having a plurality of tasks to be performed interactively;

determining the participant'"'"'s profile scores on a plurality of dimensions of value as a result of the participant'"'"'s responses on the plurality of tasks;

automatically generating and delivering a profile report to the participant that characterizes the participant'"'"'s strengths and weaknesses; and

performing a multivariable analysis of the profile scores and determining a sequence of reminders and exercises for the participant based on the analysis of the profile scores, and automatically delivering the reminders and exercises periodically to motivate ongoing participation by emphasizing the participant'"'"'s principal strengths and weaknesses.

8. The method for providing systematic training and development reminders of claim 7 wherein each of the plurality of tasks includes a set of statements that are ordered by the participant.

9. The method for providing systematic training and development reminders of claim 7 wherein each of the plurality of tasks measures the participant'"'"'s clarities and biases on each of the plurality of dimensions of value.

10. The method for providing systematic training and development reminders of claim 7 wherein the plurality of dimensions of value include a systemic value, an extrinsic value and an intrinsic value.

11. The method for providing systematic training and development reminders of claim 10 wherein each of the dimensions of value includes a self view and a world view.

12. The method for providing systematic training and development reminders of claim 9 wherein the profile report delivered to the participant is automatically generated by determination of the participant'"'"'s clarities and biases for each of the plurality of dimensions of value.

13. The method for providing systematic training and development reminders of claim 7 further comprising the act of blending the participant'"'"'s clarities and biases into a composite score for each dimension of value.

14. The method for providing systematic training and development reminders of claim 13 further comprising the act of generating a tiered strength matrix based on a range of composite scores for each dimension of value.

15. The method for providing systematic training and development reminders of claim 14 further comprising the act of generating a tiered interferers to success matrix based on a range of composite scores for each dimension of value.

16. The method for providing systematic training and development reminders of claim 15 wherein the sequence of reminders and exercises is determined based on the tiered strength matrix and the tiered interferers to success matrix for each dimension of value.

17. A computer program product stored on a computer-readable medium for providing systematic training and development reminders and exercises to a participant in a personal training and development program that reinforce the participant'"'"'s measured strengths and address the participant'"'"'s weaknesses, comprising:

program instructions that enable access to a server hosting a personal profile application program from a personal computing system to take a value profile having a plurality of tasks to be performed interactively;

program instructions that determine the participant'"'"'s profile scores on a plurality of dimensions of value as a result of the participant'"'"'s responses on the plurality of tasks;

program instructions that automatically generate and deliver a profile report to the participant that describes the participant'"'"'s strengths and weaknesses; and

program instructions that perform a multivariable analysis of the profile scores and determine a sequence of reminders and exercises for the participant based on the analysis of the profile scores, and automatically deliver the reminders and exercises periodically to motivate ongoing participation by emphasizing the participant'"'"'s principal strengths and weaknesses.

18. The computer program product for providing systematic training and development reminders of claim 17 wherein each of the plurality of tasks includes a set of statements that are ordered by the participant.

19. The computer program product for providing systematic training and development reminders of claim 17 wherein each of the plurality of tasks measures the participant'"'"'s clarities and biases on each of the plurality of dimensions of value.

20. The computer program product for providing systematic training and development reminders of claim 17 wherein the plurality of dimensions of value include a systemic value, an extrinsic value and an intrinsic value.

21. The computer program product for providing systematic training and development reminders of claim 20 wherein each of the dimensions of value includes a self view and a world view.

22. The computer program product for providing systematic training and development reminders of claim 19 further comprising program instructions that automatically generate a profile report by determination of the participant'"'"'s clarities and biases for each of the plurality of dimensions of value.

23. The computer program product for providing systematic training and development reminders of claim 17 further comprising program instructions that blend the participant'"'"'s clarities and biases into a composite score for each dimension of value.

24. The computer program product for providing systematic training and development reminders of claim 23 further comprising program instructions that generate a tiered strength matrix based on a range of composite scores for each dimension of value.

25. The computer program product for providing systematic training and development reminders of claim 24 further comprising program instructions that generate a tiered interferers to success matrix based on a range of composite scores for each dimension of value.

26. The computer program product for providing systematic training and development reminders of claim 25 further comprising program instructions that determine the sequence of reminders and exercises based on the tiered strength matrix and the tiered interferers to success matrix for each dimension of value.