Birkman® Express from Care for the Family puts powerful self-understanding in the hands of families and community organisations.
Offering a level of insight normally only available to global corporations, but at a small fraction of the cost, Birkman® Express takes the confusion out of communication and motivation.
At home, couples quickly learn the "danger areas" in communicating with each other, without necessarily ever understanding "why?" Families joke about each other's quirks, without ever seeing what it means. Parents struggle to understand why "obvious" career and course choices are anything but obvious to their offspring.
We get along fine with neighbours and friends, only to run into unexpected problems of communication and of differing perspectives, the minute we attempt to get anything done together. As communities, we are at a loss to know how to help the kids who left school without qualifications, or the mums returning to work, or retirees looking for something worthwhile to invest their energies into.
Birkman® Express is a powerful solution to all of these situations and more.
Birkman® Express is a "lite" version of the Birkman® Method, the best-in-class organisational- and professional-development tool used by Care for the Family in the UK and by household names around the world such as Boeing, Wal*Mart and Disney.
Individual respondents complete an online questionnaire and receive a report covering their motivations, usual styles of behaviour, underlying needs, typical behaviours under stress, primary contribution in organisational settings and matches to a range of typical career roles.
In group settings - whether a family, a community group or a church team - we have some well-honed group exercises which can be done as one or more workshops, and which bring home the implications of the different ways we are all "wired" while keeping the focus entirely positive and constructive. In Birkman, there are no "good" and "bad" profiles, just different.
Birkman® Express is available now from Care for the Family. You purchase one online Questionnaire for each person; when they have completed the Questionnaire, we send them their report and an interpretative guide. Price is currently £24.99 (inc VAT) for a single questionnaire or £19.99 (inc VAT) per questionnaire for multiple orders.
Our Birkman® Express packages are meant to be self-contained (and see below for news of the new DVD package), but our professional Birkman partner Elaura offer a range of optional support services at a significant discount to Birkman Express users.
You can also access our Birkman® Express blog and FAQ section on this site (see links on left). And watch this space for regional day events for Birkman® Express users!
In early 2009 we are launching a new DVD version of Birkman® Express. Each DVD will come complete with two free online Questionnaires (you can buy additional questionnaires online) and 6 video workshops comprising:
Please note that Birkman® Express is only available for not-for-profit applications. In practice that means individuals, families, churches, charities and community groups are welcome to use the product. Companies may purchase it to give to their staff (and their families) as a staff benefit, but if there is any intention to use the information within the company (for team building, recruitment, leadership development etc) we must ask you to contact our professional Birkman partner Elaura Limited who can supply you with the full professional version of the Birkman® Method or Birkman International (for a list of other suitable certified Birkman consultants near you).