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Charge Rate Information
Generic
considerations on rates and fees
Items of consideration in
consultation rates
Some comments on workshops
Inquiries
Generic
considerations on rates and fees (Top)
Experience has shown most creative
needs involve conceptual understanding. These can often be resolved
in a phone consultation. It is an illusion to believe one must
always be physically present with another. However, there are a
variety of creative needs and experiences that do require onsite
presence and/or face to face contact. The intent of this rate
structure is to discourage unnecessary travel and to address with
can be addressed by the phone or electronic means.
Actual fees are determined at the time of inquiry based on the
current hourly or standard consultation session rate.
Items of consideration in
consultation rates (Top)
Consultation rates can be adjusted
based on ability to pay, type of consultation, scheduling
commitments and duration of the requested effort. No creative task
is too large or too small. The question is the availability of time
and competing priorities.
One free, limited phone consultation is available to interested
individuals.
Typical phone consultations and/or review of transmitted data are
based on a hourly rate or for fractions of an hour unless placed on
a retainer.
Within an approximate 15 mile radius of Germantown, Maryland, a
standard consultation rate is applied for an approximate two to
three-hour session.
Consultation rate for distances greater than 15 miles from
Germantown, Maryland is typically the standard consultation rate
plus travel expenses, compensation for travel time (at a greatly
reduced rate) in hourly increments, and, as necessary, per diem and
lodging
Minimum travel consultation sessions are approximately three hours
Hourly consultation rates are at a hourly rate up to a maximum of
ten hours per day. Work after ten hours is discretionary and is
totally depend on the perceived value that is being added to the
overall effort.
Travel rates (to and from) are about $20/travel-hour and fraction of
a travel hour. (Travel rates begin at time of departure to arrival
at the destination lodging or place of work.)
Logistical expenses (for example, shipping for workshop materials)
can either charged separately or incorporated in an overall charge
that would wrap all expenses into an overall fee for service.
For travel, government per diem and lodging rates will be considered
when sensible and available at that rate for non government work and
meet consultation needs and will not incur unnecessary commuting
time (greater than 15 to 20 minutes). Otherwise the going rate will
prevail but will not exceed four times the government rate.
Normally, payment terms for other than local travel are one half
prior to starting travel, including one half per diem and lodging,
and the remaining portion on completion of the travel.
Other than for the purpose of a lecture or seminar, creative needs
which require travel will most probably be for the purpose of
workshop presentation and/or address some particular type and kind
of problem. In these cases, a team effort is often required and the
assistance of another individual to implement the Releasing Your
Unlimited Creativity approach and/or workshop can be expected. It
can be anticipated that when travel is required, the actual charge
will be doubled.
Some comments on workshops
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Please note: Workshops are
considered consultations. Creativity does not lead itself well to
performance criteria. Performance criteria are against a known
standard and a specifically desired level of knowledge and/or
performance. Creativity takes you into the unknown. Although there
are aspects of what you create that can be measures and may even be
known beforehand, how you get there is not often known and
preconceived ideas my just make the journey much longer than
necessary.
Although the workshop each have objectives and those are met, what
you obtain and take away from the workshop is like any other
consultation session. Your thinking will be influenced and may even
change. You may learn techniques that you can use immediately or you
many not use what you learned for years. But you will not
necessarily walk away with something to which you can point as to
exactly what you obtained. The workshops are not designed to provide
a skill in the sense of performance based training. The workshop are
designed to provide understanding and influence how and what you
think about yourself and the world you experience and the problem
you face and wish to solve. .
In addition to the existing workshops listed under programs and
services, workshops can be arranged and designed as requested. The
workshop’s charge rate will be determined by travel, per diem,
lodging, logistical requirements and time commitments of workshop
leaders including pre and post workshop commitments. Workshops can
be designed to not be constrained by attendance requirements such
that there is less need for one-to-one interaction. In these cases,
a greater the audience size can be accommodated. Larger audiences,
larger than about thirty, are not considered a workshop. Although
workshop exercises may be used, the format for such an audience will
be more of a lecture format.
Inquiries
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If you are interested in using the
Releasing Your Unlimited Creativity programs and services, send
inquires to:
Email
kferlic@ryuc.info
Surface snail mail
Ken Ferlic
Attention: Releasing Your Unlimited Creativity
19206 Warrior Brook Dr.
Germantown, MD 20874
Phone 240-750-8193
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