Our Services2021-12-05T04:23:51+00:00
Executive Search Services
Organization Development Services

A Team that Partners with You to Gain Clarity and Get the Job Done

The Bryan Group partners with you to customize the search and find the perfect match to fulfill the leader position in your district or organization. Together we will prioritize performance criteria to attract candidates who align with the values, vision, mission, and guiding principles of your school system or organization.

The Bryan Group dives beneath surface-level criteria and assesses performance—rather than experience–to ensure candidate finalists possess both the complementary traits your search team is looking for as well as the universal leader characteristics Dr. Bill Bryan has spent decades researching and defining.

Our data-driven search process includes a deeply effective interviewing method, Guided Storytelling Interviews™ (GSI), which allows our team to evaluate candidates beneath surface-level responses or CV keywords and into emotion-driven behaviors and motivations.

As you well know, a quality search takes time, and our team at The Bryan Group aims to make this experience insightful and engaging for your search committee during the process. Your search committee will gain valuable insights pertaining to leadership and capacity building that can be applied to future candidate searches and other areas of your work beyond the search.

We work together to find the leader you need. As a result, your search committee will have a perfectly matched candidate and a new perspective on leadership and the search process.

Start Your Search with The Bryan Group

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The Bryan Group Advantage: Our Search Success Factors

Research Based, Comprehensive Executive Search Process2020-02-27T04:38:32+00:00

Led by Dr. Bryan and his 40+ years of experience in conducting applied competence and motivation research for leaders at every level, our team knows a leader when we see one. The Bryan Group has the process to ensure success. We’ve created a highly measurable, task-based, and customized leadership performance model to assess candidates based on the “right stuff,” or those soft skills like empathy, resilience, and motivation that are difficult to measure with traditional interviewing processes. The Bryan Group has revolutionized the search process by adding “hard” behavioral science to the process, such as:

  • Accurate, Measurable Performance Criteria

  • Robust Evaluation Methodology

  • Efficient and Cost Effective Search Process

  • Predictable and Workable Timeline

Simple Pricing: Flat Executive Search Fee2020-02-27T04:50:06+00:00

Traditional search process pricing is complex, even incorporating additional services in a package that doesn’t quite fit your budget and costs more than you expected to pay. The Bryan Group has simplified the pricing structure for you, delivering services that are customized to suit your needs for flat fee. You receive a highly sophisticated search process for a considerably more reasonable rate.

  • Flat Executive Fee

  • Customized Services

  • Highly Sophisticated Search Process

Guided Storytelling Interviews™2020-02-27T04:57:12+00:00

The Bryan Group uses a unique evaluation tool called Guided Storytelling Interviews™ (GSI). Our team taps into the real substance of a candidate’s experience by framing questions to encourage a type of storytelling that prioritizes genuine emotions and behaviors in the moment. This way, with your search committee, we’re able to reveal candidates’ “truths” and understand their hard-to-measure qualities in order to find your best match.

The GSI process provides:

  • Accurate Assessment of Candidate Performance Capabilities

  • Predictive Validity of Future Performance

  • In-Depth Evaluation Like You’ve Never Seen Before

Top-Tier Candidate Pool2020-02-27T05:05:06+00:00

At TBG we are serious about delivering top-tier leaders, and it starts with our Candidate Pool. All members within our Candidate Pool have been vetted and pre-qualified through a rigorous screening process that mirrors key elements of our leader search process. Each of our potential candidates are evaluated for top-notch core leadership skills and evidence of successful performance. If we don’t approve, they don’t make it to your desk.

TBG offers you:

  • Pre-Qualified Candidates

  • A Highly Selective Candidate Pool

  • The Strongest Candidates for Your Selection Process

Prevent History from Repeating Itself2020-02-27T05:11:44+00:00

You know what you don’t want in a candidate, but do you know how to avoid making the wrong choice? Our research prevents you from hiring a leader with red flag “failure factors” that lead to poor performance.

Our selection process helps you:

  • Identify Red Flag Characteristics

  • Avoid Candidates with Poor Performance and Potential

Flat-fee Pricing Based on Only the Services You Need2020-02-27T05:15:09+00:00

We structure our fees so you only pay for aspects of the search process that apply to your unique needs. TBG produces a single flat fee based on the effort required to deliver those services. The fee only increases if additional services are requested once the search process begins.

  • Transparent Pricing

  • Customized Services

Leader On-boarding2021-07-21T02:54:46+00:00

We support your new leader so they can get off on the right foot. Our on-boarding services assist new leaders so they can more easily assimilate with your organization or school’s culture.

Your new hire will receive:

  • Continued Support

  • Culture Assimilation

  • Communication Assistance with School Board

We’re Your Search Partner, Not Closed-door Consultants2020-02-27T05:19:42+00:00

We don’t conduct the search behind closed doors—we work directly with your search team to ensure we’re finding the best-fit candidates. Your team will have a hand in every decision throughout the process, with access to a wealth of leadership resources and insights along the way. If you prefer to be completely hands off during this process, that’s OK too. We’ll keep you updated, so you’re never in the dark. Our search process empowers your team to apply these insights in meaningful ways throughout your district or organization.

TBG provides:

  • A Transparent Search Process

  • Partnering with Your School Board or Board of Directors

  • An Insightful Experience for All

The Bryan Group Advantage: Our Search Success Factors

Research Based, Comprehensive Executive Search Process2020-02-27T04:38:32+00:00

Led by Dr. Bryan and his 40+ years of experience in conducting applied competence and motivation research for leaders at every level, our team knows a leader when we see one. The Bryan Group has the process to ensure success. We’ve created a highly measurable, task-based, and customized leadership performance model to assess candidates based on the “right stuff,” or those soft skills like empathy, resilience, and motivation that are difficult to measure with traditional interviewing processes. The Bryan Group has revolutionized the search process by adding “hard” behavioral science to the process, such as:

  • Accurate, Measurable Performance Criteria

  • Robust Evaluation Methodology

  • Efficient and Cost Effective Search Process

  • Predictable and Workable Timeline

Simple Pricing: Flat Executive Search Fee2020-02-27T04:50:06+00:00

Traditional search process pricing is complex, even incorporating additional services in a package that doesn’t quite fit your budget and costs more than you expected to pay. The Bryan Group has simplified the pricing structure for you, delivering services that are customized to suit your needs for flat fee. You receive a highly sophisticated search process for a considerably more reasonable rate.

  • Flat Executive Fee

  • Customized Services

  • Highly Sophisticated Search Process

Guided Storytelling Interviews™2020-02-27T04:57:12+00:00

The Bryan Group uses a unique evaluation tool called Guided Storytelling Interviews™ (GSI). Our team taps into the real substance of a candidate’s experience by framing questions to encourage a type of storytelling that prioritizes genuine emotions and behaviors in the moment. This way, with your search committee, we’re able to reveal candidates’ “truths” and understand their hard-to-measure qualities in order to find your best match.

The GSI process provides:

  • Accurate Assessment of Candidate Performance Capabilities

  • Predictive Validity of Future Performance

  • In-Depth Evaluation Like You’ve Never Seen Before

Top-Tier Candidate Pool2020-02-27T05:05:06+00:00

At TBG we are serious about delivering top-tier leaders, and it starts with our Candidate Pool. All members within our Candidate Pool have been vetted and pre-qualified through a rigorous screening process that mirrors key elements of our leader search process. Each of our potential candidates are evaluated for top-notch core leadership skills and evidence of successful performance. If we don’t approve, they don’t make it to your desk.

TBG offers you:

  • Pre-Qualified Candidates

  • A Highly Selective Candidate Pool

  • The Strongest Candidates for Your Selection Process

Prevent History from Repeating Itself2020-02-27T05:11:44+00:00

You know what you don’t want in a candidate, but do you know how to avoid making the wrong choice? Our research prevents you from hiring a leader with red flag “failure factors” that lead to poor performance.

Our selection process helps you:

  • Identify Red Flag Characteristics

  • Avoid Candidates with Poor Performance and Potential

Flat-fee Pricing Based on Only the Services You Need2020-02-27T05:15:09+00:00

We structure our fees so you only pay for aspects of the search process that apply to your unique needs. TBG produces a single flat fee based on the effort required to deliver those services. The fee only increases if additional services are requested once the search process begins.

  • Transparent Pricing

  • Customized Services

Leader On-boarding2021-07-21T02:54:46+00:00

We support your new leader so they can get off on the right foot. Our on-boarding services assist new leaders so they can more easily assimilate with your organization or school’s culture.

Your new hire will receive:

  • Continued Support

  • Culture Assimilation

  • Communication Assistance with School Board

We’re Your Search Partner, Not Closed-door Consultants2020-02-27T05:19:42+00:00

We don’t conduct the search behind closed doors—we work directly with your search team to ensure we’re finding the best-fit candidates. Your team will have a hand in every decision throughout the process, with access to a wealth of leadership resources and insights along the way. If you prefer to be completely hands off during this process, that’s OK too. We’ll keep you updated, so you’re never in the dark. Our search process empowers your team to apply these insights in meaningful ways throughout your district or organization.

TBG provides:

  • A Transparent Search Process

  • Partnering with Your School Board or Board of Directors

  • An Insightful Experience for All

Start Your Search with The Bryan Group

start here

Other Services: Leader, Manager and Organization Development

Without effective leadership skills and communication, workplace inefficiencies can bubble up and inflate relational and operational problems. There are a number of diagnostic frameworks/models leaders must master to optimize organizational goal attainment or student outcomes. These include education, management, and leadership mental models. When the appropriate frameworks are in hand, we can find the right solution when faced with challenges.

The Leader Development process will let you see the full spectrum of you as a leader or others as the leaders of your organization. The Bryan Group takes 360° evaluations of the leaders within your organization and develops a framework to master these mental models.

When the best solution is chosen, then the correct knowledge, skills, talents, and styles can implement the solution effectively. The services described below fall into one or more of those diagnostic frameworks.

The Bryan Group’s capacity for applying multiple frameworks and associated best practices to the education and business environments further enhances our ability to conduct effective searches which may include:

  • Creating behavioral models (including rubrics)
  • Creating competency-based HR Functions to include: hiring, professional development, training,
    promotion, performance evaluation, succession planning and/or career-pathing
  • Conducting student and employee engagement studies.
  • Conducting individual assessments
  • Conducting general organization needs assessments

For More In-Depth Information About Leadership Mental Models and Student Outcomes in the education sector, CLICK HERE to download our High-Level Drivers of Student Performance document.

Talent Management – Developing Competency-Based HR Functions2019-10-09T18:05:27+00:00

Talent Management – Developing Competency-Based HR Functions

  • Recruiting and retained executive search for top-performing leaders/administrators

  • New employee on-boarding

  • Leader training and development programs and coaching

  • Social-emotional intelligence competency development

  • Performance appraisal systems

  • Succession planning

  • Staffing plan development

  • Retention of high-performing employees

  • Termination

  • Employee and student engagement studies and action planning

Performance Management2020-02-28T00:44:04+00:00

For information about the approach employed for any of the following performance management functions, contact The Bryan Group at 401-965-8345.

  • Key performance indicator (KPI) development at all levels

  • Job design and development

  • Organization needs assessment

  • Organization design

  • Process improvement

  • Continuous improvement – moving from good to great!

  • Developing high-performing teams

  • Developing a high-performing school and/or district

  • Initiative and program mapping

  • Climate and culture assessment and enhancement

  • Downsizing and/or rightsizing

  • Policy studies

  • Change leadership

School Board and Committee Development2021-07-21T03:01:19+00:00

The Bryan Group works with schools boards and boards of directors to develop effective communication practices and to clarify administrative roles among leaders. After the search is over, we coach your board and new leader to create clear communication and performance expectations to ensure everyone starts off on the right foot.

Strategic Planning2020-02-28T00:57:30+00:00

Progress and enthusiasm start with a compelling strategy. TBG customizes a strategy that ensures your goals and objectives are met in a timely fashion. We start by clarifying your values, vision, mission, and guiding principles. With that in mind, we develop goals, objectives, strategies, and work plans employing a unique methodology that allows us to meet planning goals in half the time of typical consulting firms.

For more information, contact Bill Bryan at 401-965-8345 or [email protected]

Current Searches and TBG Team Contacts

New Hampshire:

SAU 33 – Raymond, Alan Pardy

SAU 35 – White Mountains, Michele Munson

SAU 49 – Governor Wentworth, Alan Pardy & Michele Munson

SAU 50 – Greenland, Michele Munson

SAU 52 – Portsmouth, Alan Pardy

SAU 81 – Hudson, Alan Pardy & Michele Munson

Nevada:

Washoe County – Bill Bryan


Recently Completed Searches:

New Hampshire:

SAU 21, Hampton/Seabrook/Winnacunnet

SAU 4, Newfound

Connecticut (in partnership with Cooperative Educational Services):

Plainfield School District

Stratford School District

RSD 13

Talent Management – Developing Competency-Based HR Functions2019-10-09T18:05:27+00:00

Talent Management – Developing Competency-Based HR Functions

  • Recruiting and retained executive search for top-performing leaders/administrators

  • New employee on-boarding

  • Leader training and development programs and coaching

  • Social-emotional intelligence competency development

  • Performance appraisal systems

  • Succession planning

  • Staffing plan development

  • Retention of high-performing employees

  • Termination

  • Employee and student engagement studies and action planning

Performance Management2020-02-28T00:44:04+00:00

For information about the approach employed for any of the following performance management functions, contact The Bryan Group at 401-965-8345.

  • Key performance indicator (KPI) development at all levels

  • Job design and development

  • Organization needs assessment

  • Organization design

  • Process improvement

  • Continuous improvement – moving from good to great!

  • Developing high-performing teams

  • Developing a high-performing school and/or district

  • Initiative and program mapping

  • Climate and culture assessment and enhancement

  • Downsizing and/or rightsizing

  • Policy studies

  • Change leadership

School Board and Committee Development2021-07-21T03:01:19+00:00

The Bryan Group works with schools boards and boards of directors to develop effective communication practices and to clarify administrative roles among leaders. After the search is over, we coach your board and new leader to create clear communication and performance expectations to ensure everyone starts off on the right foot.

Strategic Planning2020-02-28T00:57:30+00:00

Progress and enthusiasm start with a compelling strategy. TBG customizes a strategy that ensures your goals and objectives are met in a timely fashion. We start by clarifying your values, vision, mission, and guiding principles. With that in mind, we develop goals, objectives, strategies, and work plans employing a unique methodology that allows us to meet planning goals in half the time of typical consulting firms.

For more information, contact Bill Bryan at 401-965-8345 or [email protected]

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