Exemplary systems and methods for providing information relating to professional growth are provided. A client provides client data regarding professional growth. The current level of professional growth of the client is determined, and the next level of professional growth is identified. The client is provided with information regarding the next level, based on the identification of the next level.
Embodiments include methods for providing information relating to professional growth. Such methods may include receiving client data regarding professional growth of a client, determining a current level of professional growth of the client, based on the received client data, identifying a next level of professional growth for the client, based on the determination of the current level, and providing the client with information regarding the next level, based on the identification of the next level. The client data may be received from one or more data sources. For instance, the client data regarding professional growth of a client may be received from a relational database coupled to the processor. The client data regarding professional growth may be received from a scorecard where the client self-evaluated his or her professional growth. Also, the client data regarding professional growth may be objectively calculated and provided as a statistical measurement of the client's professional growth, based on the current level of the client and one or more prior levels that were obtained by the client.
Methods may further include providing the client with strategies on how to measurably progress from the current level to the next level. The strategies may be provided through a user interface online. The strategies may be custom-tailored to the client by a variety of factors. For instance, the strategies for professional growth may be custom-tailored in view of the client's personal strengths and weaknesses. The strategies may be determined by the strategy module, which is described later herein.
Exemplary methods may include providing to the client one or more professional growth tools. Such professional growth tools may be configured to assist the client in obtaining the next level of professional growth. Exemplary professional growth tools may include one or more calculators configured to measure current client data relating to the professional growth of a client. The information derived from the one or more calculators may then be used as a data source for the exemplary methods for providing information relating to professional growth of the client, as described herein.
Further embodiments include systems for managing professional development. Such systems may include a memory configured to store client information regarding professional growth of the client, a processor executable to determine a current level of professional growth of the client, based on the received client data and identify a next level of professional growth for the client, and an interface configured to provide the client with information regarding the next level.
Systems may further include one or more exemplary modules, such as the strategy module, a historical overview module, a professional growth tool module, and a statistics module, and a relational database module. More information about each of these modules will be provided later herein. Each of these modules may be used separately or in combination with each other in a particular program.
Embodiments of the present invention may yet further include computer-readable storage media, having embodied thereon programs for executing one or more exemplary methods for providing information relating to professional growth.
Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for providing information relating to professional growth are provided. A client provides client data regarding professional growth. The current level of professional growth of the client is determined, and the next level of professional growth is identified. The client is provided with information regarding the next level, based on the identification of the next level. Interactive professional growth tools and strategies may also be provided to the client.
Network 110 may be a local, proprietary network (e.g., intranet) and/or may be a part of a larger wide-area network. For example, the network 110 may be a local area network (LAN), which may also be communicatively coupled to a wide Area network (WAN) such as the Internet. Network 110 allows for communication between the various components of system 100.
The server 120 (described in further detail with respect to
Environment 100 may further include an optional database 130. The database 130 may include a relational database that may store one or more data entries received from one or more data sources. Exemplary embodiments of the relational database include a relational database that may determine explicit and/or implicit associations among data entries regarding one or more clients 140A-C. That is, the relational database may obtain data entries from a variety of data sources, determine associations of data entries regarding a client, and then provide these data entries automatically to exemplary systems for providing information relating to professional growth, as described herein.
The database 130 may be housed with the server 120 or, as illustrated, in a separate device. The database 130 serves as a repository for storing any kind of training materials (i.e., literature, exercises, video and/or audio clips or segments, games, scorecards, calculators, online tools, coaching presentations, coaching strategies, evaluations, lecture notes, professional growth tools, web links to further resources, powerpoint presentations, electronic mail messages, surveys, recommendations, and the like). Some professional development programs for certain clients may incorporate such training materials, which may be accessed and provided to the client from the database 130. The training materials may be provided to the client online the network 110.
Client devices may comprise any combination of computer hardware and software configured to receive and transmit information over the network 110, thereby communicating with the server 120 and/or the database 130.
A module (or application), as referenced in the present invention, should be generally understood as a collection of routines that perform various system-level functions and may be dynamically loaded and unloaded by hardware and device drivers as required. The modular software components described herein may also be incorporated as part of a larger software platform or integrated as part of an application specific component.
The professional growth tool module 220 is configured to supply one or more professional growth tools to the client. The professional growth tools themselves are configured to assist the client in obtaining a next level of professional growth. As will be described in greater detail later herein, a current level of professional growth of a client is determined based on received client data regarding professional growth. This received client data may be received from one or more data sources (including but not limited to the client). Once the current level of professional growth is established, then the professional growth tool module 220 may recommend one or more professional growth tools to the client. In various embodiments, the professional growth tool module 220 may generate one or more professional growth tools to the client, utilizing one or more templates stored in the database 130. In exemplary embodiments, each level of professional growth is associated with at least one professional growth tool. In some embodiments, the professional growth tool may be provided to the client via the network 110 through a web browser (not shown). In other words, the professional growth tool may be furnished to the client online.
The professional growth tool module 220 is executable by the processor 260 to determine which of the professional growth tools available should be provided to the client. Client data (such as strengths, weaknesses, goals, aspiration, obstacles, and the like) may be provided to the professional growth tool module 220. The client data may be provided to the professional growth tool module 220 by the relational database described earlier.
Based on such client data, the professional growth tool module 220 may be configured to assist the client in obtaining the next level of professional growth. The next level of professional growth is any level beyond the current level of professional growth of the client. Exemplary professional growth tools may include one or more calculators configured to measure current client data relating to the professional growth of a client. The information derived from the one or more calculators may then be used as a data source for the exemplary methods for providing information relating to professional growth of the client, as described herein. Exemplary calculators include the focus day calculator, the intellectual capital calculator, entrepreneur time calculator, and the largest check calculator, which are described in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 12/534,783, filed on Aug. 3, 2009, titled “Managing Professional Development,” which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety.
Further exemplary professional growth tools include or may incorporate one or more templates and/or training materials that are stored with the database 130 (such as literature, exercises, video and/or audio clips or segments, games, scorecards, calculators, online tools, coaching presentations, coaching strategies, web links to further resources, evaluations, lecture notes, powerpoint presentations, electronic mail messages, surveys, recommendations, and the like). One skilled in the art will appreciate that the one or more professional growth tools provided to the client may be repeated and/or slightly enhanced as the client moves up level by level. For instance, a calculator may be furnished to the client at a first level. Then, as the client moves to the second level, the same calculator may be furnished to the client, with enhanced features for a more robust utility. Alternatively, the calculator may be supplied to the client, combined with a new professional growth tool. In some embodiments, the professional growth tool module 220 may customize one or more professional growth tools for the client based on client data of professional growth. Exemplary embodiments of the professional growth tool module 220 may include an enforcement mechanism, such that the client must interact with the one or more professional growth tools recommended by the professional growth tool module 220 before the client may advance to the next level of professional growth.
The strategy module 230 is configured to provide strategies on how to measurably progress from the current level to the next level of professional growth to the client. The strategies may be provided through a user interface online. The strategies may be custom-tailored to the client by a variety of factors. For instance, the strategies for professional growth may be custom-tailored in view of the client's personal strengths and weaknesses. The strategies may also be customized to obstacles that are provided or identified by client data. The strategies may be stored in the database. The strategies generated by the strategy module 230 may be derived from associations established or determined by the relational database described earlier. The strategy module 230 is executable by processor 260 to provide one or more strategies to the client on how to measurably progress from the current level to the next level. The progress of a client may be measurable or calculated, such that historical data of the professional growth of a client may be stored in memory 210. Historical data will be discussed later.
The statistics module 240 is executable by processor 260 to provide a statistical measurement of the professional growth of the client within a given time period. The statistics module 240 may obtain data points, data measures, and/or data information from external and internal data resources. For example, the client may provide client information through evaluations or scorecards (such as the exemplary scorecard provided in
The historical overview module 250 is executable by the processor to provide a historical overview of the professional growth of the client, based on the current level of the client and one or more prior levels of professional growth previously reached by the client. The historical overview provided by the historical overview module 250 may be presented visually (such as in a graph, a pie chart, or other graphical means). The historical overview may be provided by the historical overview module 250 in textual form, such as a description of all the levels of professional growth that the client has achieved. Alternatively, the historical overview may comprise a listing of all the statistics stored by the statistics module 240 since the client began the professional growth program. In some exemplary embodiments, the historical overview module 250 may operate via one or more professional growth tools.
In step 310, information regarding the professional growth of the client is received. Client 140A may provide any type of information regarding professional growth. An exemplary, non-exhaustive list of such client information includes the goals that the client 140A reached successfully, goals that the client 140A did not reach yet, obstacles that hinder the client 140A, the occupation, how long the client 140A has been in the industry or current occupation, current data regarding the client's work force or team, the types of problems that the client 140A encounters in the profession, self-evaluation of the client 140A as to which level of professional growth the client is at currently, etc. In some instances, client 140A may already be involved in a program for professional development. As such, information regarding client 140A may have been previously provided and the information received in step 310 is an update to the previously provided information. The received client data regarding professional growth of a client may be obtained from any number of external and/or internal data sources, including but not limited to a relational database coupled to the processor. The relational database may include stored client data and associations from data entries as described earlier. The received client data may be obtained from scoring results that are furnished by the client, where the scoring results related to one or more levels of professional growth. An exemplary scorecard is provided in
In step 320, a current level of professional growth for the client is determined from the received client data. In other words, the level of professional growth of the client is established based on received client data from one or more data sources. The level of professional growth may be identified with the help of a professional growth ladder, which provides a roadmap of the various levels of professional growth that are available to a client. An exemplary professional growth ladder is provided in
In some exemplary embodiments, if the client information is most closely similar to that provided in level 1 of the professional growth ladder, then it will be determined that the client's current level of professional growth is level 1. The determination may be made by one or more components of the system, such as the processor 260, the relational database (not shown) and one or more modules of the memory 210 (
In step 330, the next level of professional growth for the client is identified. In some embodiments, a next level of professional growth is one level higher to the current level. For instance, if the current level of the client is level 1, then the next level of professional growth for the client is level 2. However, the scope of the technology described herein may allow for levels to be repeated or skipped. The current level and the next level may be an update from prior determinations. The determination may be made by one or more components of the system, such as the processor 260, the relational database (not shown) and one or more modules of memory 210 (
In step 340, information regarding the next level is provided to the client, based on the identification of the next level in step 330. Step 340 may include providing the client with strategies on how to measurably progress from the current level to the next level. Such strategies may be generated and/or provided by the strategy module 230 (
The method 300 may also include maintaining a historical overview of the professional growth of the client, based on the current level of the client and one or more prior levels of professional growth previously reached by the client. The historical overview may be provided by the historical overview module 250 (
The method 300 may optionally provide the client a statistical measurement of the professional growth of the client within a given time period. The statistical measurement may be any type of statistical data taken from a statistical analysis of professional growth. The statistics module 240 (
In some embodiments, the professional growth ladder 400 is utilized by methods and systems described herein, in order to determine the current level and the next level for the client's professional growth. The professional growth ladder 400 may be stored in memory 210 (
The exemplary row 510 may have columns for scoring and for further client information input. The scoring scale is from 1-10, 1 being the lowest and 10 being the highest. Thus, the client may score or evaluate where they are at in a given level using the scoring scale. Also, client information input may be sought in the “What's Working?” (that is, what is helping the client in professional growth) and “What's Not?”(what is not helping the client) columns provided in the scorecard 500. Finally, the column “Progress: Next 90 Days” may allow for the client to input what are the measurable progressive steps are necessary for the client to reach in the next 90 days. It will be appreciated by one skilled in the art that all the figures provided herein, including
In one embodiment, the screenshot 600 may be provided to the client when the software program is first loaded. In further embodiments, the screenshot 600 may be displayed to the client after the client clicks the “Climbing The Ladder” tab 610 or after the client clicks on the start button 640 (which is shown as the button that states “Start a new page”).
This screenshot 600 may be presented for the client to provide client data in various fields in the score sheet 620. The client may provide scoring data on any given day. In the exemplary screenshot 600, the date slider 650 shows that the current date is Jul. 28, 2009. The date slider 650 may be used to slide or otherwise jump to another calendar date, so that the client may be provided the scoring on any given date.
The client may provide client data on the score sheet 620 in order to score or otherwise rate a user on seven levels. The levels, associated results, and associated strategies are presented to the client in the score sheet 620. For instance, in the score sheet 620 as presented in the exemplary screenshot 600, on Jul. 28, 2009, the client has provided client data showing that the user scored himself a “1” on a scale of 1-10 in each of the scoring fields. For instance, the user has scored himself a “1” in a scoring field 612 for Level 7. The processor (not shown) totals up the scores provided by the client through the score sheet 620 in order to obtain a total score for the client for a given day. Thus, since the client provided client data in the form of a score of a “1” on 7 levels, the score display 680 shows that today's score (which is depicted as “This Score:”) is 7/70. The client's last score was “33/70,” which means that the client previously provided client data in the form of scores that were higher on one or more levels of the score sheet 620. The client may also input further client data, such as notes. For instance, the client may provide user input data in the “What's Working” field 614 to provide information on what is helping the user in professional growth. In the “What's Next” field 616, the client may provide input data as to what issues, matters or problems that the user would like to address. The client may provide what progress the user would like to make in the next 90 days in a “Progress Next 90 days” field 618 associated with a level. In
As shown on the score sheet 720, Level 7 has an associated result of “Monopoly” and an associated strategy of “Have all of your clients eliminate all of your competitors.” The client has provided client data showing a scoring of a “2” on the scoring scale of 1-10 for Level 7. The score sheet 720 also indicates that the client has provided client data for the “What's Working” field 614 indicating that user has “[p]rofiled top 5 monopoly clients and developed criteria for scoring.” The client has also provided client data for the “What's Next” field 616, indicating that “[o]nly 12 out of 61 clients are monopoly relationships—too much uncertainty.”
For the “Progress Next 90 Days” field 618, according to various embodiments, the client may provide client data in the form of upcoming strategies for the anticipated or planned progress in the next 90 days. In various embodiments, the software program itself may determine or otherwise develop the upcoming strategies for the progress to be made in the next 90 days based on the client data and strategies already programmed with the software program. As shown in
The memory system 1104 is any memory configured to store data. Some examples of the memory system 1104 are storage devices, such as RAM or ROM. The storage system 1106 is any storage configured to retrieve and store data. Some examples of the storage system 1106 are flash drives, hard drives, optical drives, and/or magnetic tape. The storage system 1106 may comprise a data structure configured to hold and organize data.
The I/O interface 1108 is any device that may receive data from a client or provide data to the client. The I/O interface 1108 may include, but is not limited to, a keyboard, a monitor, a mouse, a speaker, a microphone, or a camera.
The communication interface 1110 may be coupled to any digital device via the link 1114. The communication interface 1110 may support communication over a USB connection, a firewire connection, an Ethernet connection, a serial connection, a parallel connection, or an ATA connection. The communication interface 1110 may also support wireless communication (e.g., 802.11 a/b/g/n or wireless USB). It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that the communication interface 1110 can support many wired and wireless standards.
Some of the above-described functions can be composed of instructions that are stored on storage media (e.g., computer-readable medium). The instructions may be retrieved and executed by the processor 1102. Some examples of storage media are memory devices, tapes, disks, integrated circuits, and servers. The instructions are operational when executed by the processor 1102 to direct the processor 1102 to operate in accord with the invention. Those skilled in the art are familiar with instructions, processor(s), and storage media.
It is noteworthy that any hardware platform suitable for performing the processing described herein is suitable for use with the invention. The terms “computer-readable medium” and “computer-readable media” as used herein refer to any medium or media that participate in providing instructions to a CPU for execution. Such media can take many forms, including, but not limited to, non-volatile media, volatile media and transmission media. Non-volatile media include, for example, optical or magnetic disks, such as a fixed disk. Volatile media include dynamic memory, such as system RAM. Transmission media include coaxial cables, copper wire and fiber optics, among others, including the wires that comprise one embodiment of a bus. Transmission media can also take the form of acoustic or light waves, such as those generated during radio frequency (RF) and infrared (IR) data communications. Common forms of computer-readable media include, for example, a floppy disk, a flexible disk, a hard disk, magnetic tape, any other magnetic medium, a CD-ROM disk, digital video disk (DVD), any other optical medium, punch cards, paper tape, any other physical medium with patterns of marks or holes, a RAM, a PROM, an EPROM, an EEPROM, a FLASHEPROM, any other memory chip or cartridge, a carrier wave, or any other medium from which a computer can read.
Various forms of computer-readable media may be involved in carrying one or more sequences of one or more instructions to a CPU for execution. A bus carries the data to system RAM, from which a CPU retrieves and executes the instructions. The instructions received by system RAM can optionally be stored on a fixed disk either before or after execution by a CPU.
The above description is illustrative and not restrictive. Many variations of the invention will become apparent to those of skill in the art upon review of this disclosure. The scope of the invention should, therefore, be determined not with reference to the above description, but instead should be determined with reference to the appended claims along with their full scope of equivalents.
While the present invention has been described in connection with a series of preferred embodiment, these descriptions are not intended to limit the scope of the invention to the particular forms set forth herein. It will be further understood that the methods of the invention are not necessarily limited to the discrete steps or the order of the steps described. To the contrary, the present descriptions are intended to cover such alternatives, modifications, and equivalents as may be included within the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims and otherwise appreciated by one of ordinary skill in the art.
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