December 2000:  DRI Consulting announces the formal launch of feedbackshop.com, its online assessment service.  

Dr. John Fennig and staff have been profiling individuals, teams, and organizations for nearly 20 years.  DRI Consulting has been on the web since early 1996.  Our assessment tools have been web-enabled for over a year.  To date, over 8,000 individuals and 500 organizations have benefited.  The mission of feedbackshop.com is to be THE psychology-based online assessment service for the world.  Serving organizations and individual consumers - online, anytime, anywhere. 

December 2000:  Northern Alternative Energy continues using us for all their recruiting, testing and selection needs.  Currently we are helping hire for the role of CFO.  DRIC team lead:  Bruce Smith.  Testing administered online through feedbackshop.com, the assessment service of DRI Consulting.

December 2000: Culture development project ends, DRIC retained for recruiting and selection of key positions at rooster.com.  DRIC team lead on culture: Dr. John Fennig, recruiting/selection: Bruce Smith.  Testing administered online through feedbackshop.com, the assessment service of DRI Consulting.

December 2000: A work team at Beckman Coulter uses our Leaders Edge Profile for personal and team feedback and development.  DRIC team lead:  Dr. Sheryl Otto.  Testing administered online through feedbackshop.com, the assessment service of DRI Consulting.

Each person received a detailed report and personalized feedback on their leadership profile.  DRIC produced a team snapshot and will facilitate a work session with the entire team to help them understand and use this information.

December 2000: Dr. John Fennig contributes extensively to an article in the Minneapolis Star Tribune on career change and technology. 

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Fall 2000:  A large organization within Wells Fargo retains DRIC for several executive development and work team facilitation projects.  DRIC team lead:  Dr. Sheryl Otto.  Testing administered online through feedbackshop.com, the assessment service of DRI Consulting.

Fall 2000:  Bentz Whaley Flessner hires DRIC to provide pre-selection assessments for all their new consultant hires.  DRIC team lead:  Bruce Smith

Fall 2000:  Northern Alternative Energy continues using us for all their recruiting, testing and selection needs.  NAE is excited about recent hires for General Counsel, Executive Assistant/Office Manager.  DRIC team lead:  Bruce Smith

October 2000: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts retains DRI Consulting to help the Board of Directors and Senior Staff produce their new 3-5 year strategic plan.  DRIC team lead:  Dr. John Fennig

This work included summarizing and reporting Board survey data, work session facilitation and advising on effective planning process.  Our Dr. Victoria Littlefield received very positive feedback for her survey work.

October 2000: Dr. John Fennig contributes to two articles on employment strategies.

These were written and distributed by the Internet Broadcasting Systems, Inc. and appear on over 100 local media websites. Click on the article title to read. 

July 2000: High profile Internet start-up contracts with DRI Consulting to help leverage/develop its company culture.

This organization wants to gain the most insight into itself and use an assessment of company culture as a tool to faster and more effective growth. Our culture assessment and development will be based on measures of individual, team and company personality. Components of personality at these three levels include core ideology (values, purpose), envisioned future (vision, goals, pace/drive), strengths, development needs, weaknesses/limitations, habits, rituals. From this assessment we can help the organization consciously implement business processes, tools and behaviors to sustain desired culture, minimize undesired culture aspects and grow missing elements of the culture they want.

July 2000: DRIC and Human Resources for a large business unit of Wells Fargo team up to provide management development feedback/coaching for its senior managers.  Lead:  Sheryl Otto

This business unit of Wells Fargo is conducting follow-up 360 degree assessments using Wells Fargo's own instrument, recently revised after the Norwest-Wells Fargo merger. DRIC staff will help administer and interpret this tool, offering development feedback and coaching.

June 2000: DRIC conducts in-depth selection assessment of a finalist for a key position overseeing field operations for Northern Alternative Energy.

June 2000: DRIC makes personality profiling/coaching available through innovative new method - bought by clients via eBay (Dutch auction)

Our mission at DRIC and feedbackshop.com subsidiary is to make the best tools in psychology available to the most people in the most professional, most convenient and least expensive way. Several clients took advantage of the convenience and expedience of the internet to buy and receive personality profiling. In addition to our store at this site ( www.dric.com), our clients will have many new options for getting personality profiling/coaching online, such as eBay and other distribution partners we will announce soon.

April/May 2000: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts retains DRI Consulting for staff assessment and development work

April 2000: DRI Consulting incorporates a wholly-owned subsidiary, feedbackshop.com, inc., as its web-based testing service.

Both corporate and private clients will benefit from this entirely automated approach to administering psychological testing by way of lower costs, convenience and speed of delivery of solutions and results. Investors and DRI Consulting staff benefit from the equity opportunity presented.

"We have leveraged the Internet for over 5 years now. Our clients see significant gains as we now deliver testing online. We are a 10-year-old brick and mortar professional services firm with a dot.com method to ensure outstanding service to our clients."

April 2000: Client Northern Alternative Energy secures 8-fold increase in revenue as winning bidder on a highly competitive contract, making it the largest renewable energy utility in Minnesota.

John Fennig continues to serve as a Director on the Board of NAE, helping with management and human resources development, and organizational growth issues.

March 2000: Jasc Software continues to use DRI Consulting for management development and coaching

March and April 2000: Dr. John Fennig conducts a 2-part Workshop for 30 aspiring management consultants, sponsored by the Minnesota School of Professional Psychology.

February and March 2000: Norwest Corporate Trust continues their 4 year relationship with DRIC, using us to plan and facilitate several team building offsites with the the senior managers

February 2000: Religious order retains DRIC to profile a new candidate for their community and help them in their admission decision

Based on our work with their last candidate, DRIC is hired by this small monastic community of Catholic nuns as they grow their very special inner city ministry. Dr. Fennig and staff have special interest, skill and experience working with religious and other faith communities.

January 2000: Wind energy firm hires DRIC to help find and select 2 key people for the organization

Northern Alternative Energy uses DRIC as its outsourced human resource department, rather than maintain one itself. Based on our success helping them hire their last two employees, President and founder Greg Jaunich continues to contract for services with us.

January 2000: Plating shop uses DRIC to facilitate an all-manager problem solving process to increase profitability

This half-day work session produced top root causes to their defined problem and 6 task teams to produce and implement solutions. In addition to facilitating this work session we taught the use of a part of our Real World Leadership ToolBox so they could repeat these work sessions with less reliance on outside help from us.