OVERLAND PARK, Kan. - A metro company is bringing people together with an age old philosophy. At The Grant Company in Overland Park, they're all about building successful relationships with the people you encounter every day – whether it is at work or school. Their key? Natural synergy.
“We kind of liken what we do to the fellow who invented putting water in a bottle,” explains CEO William (Mack) Hull. “It was in nature. And he decided to make it portable and attractive.”
Hull admits the process is nothing new. It's an age old philosophy. But the grant company takes it to a new level by working with that existing data.
“We just take nature and put it in that box and it comes out of that box with data that makes for a more productive society no matter what you're doing,” Hull said.
The Grant Company has broken it down to two specialized programs. iParadigm aligns people based on their communications style in say a business setting. IntelliConnect takes the process a bit further for teacher-student learning situations.
The process starts with a simple 5 minute online test. The results are instant.
“We analyze people’s communications styles and then we find where they connect, where they naturally connect and where they naturally may have conflict,” explains Gavin Hull, Director of Client Relations.
The Grant Company is now marketing the process with school districts to better align teachers and students in the classroom.
“My son is very bright but he had some struggles in school,” says Angela Morris. “And we couldn't figure out what it was. He had phenomenal teachers.”
Morris, the Director of Client Development, says she found a first-hand success story.
“Personally, what I've seen is a complete attitude adjustment on school with my own son. A couple of years ago, it was hard to get him out of bed to go to school. And now, he loves it!”
The bottom line – The Grant Company's goal is to make people more comfortable with one another, and in turn, more productive.
“We believe, and out studies tell us,” Hull says. “That if we can create a homogenous classroom of similarity, then the information flows and the learning is natural.”
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