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EQ and Style: Two Sides of the Same Personality Coin
EQ & Style – Two Sides of the Same Personality Coin At Take Flight Learning, we used to treat personality styles and emotional intelligence (aka, EI or EQ) as separate. That was the norm in our industry. In recent years, however, I began to realize that style and...

Professor Marston and the Wonder Women
Professor Marston and the Wonder WomenHow “Professor Marston and the Wonder Women” Spawned a Multi-Million Dollar Industry that has Nothing to Do...

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year? Today is Officially Football Season!
For many Americans, today kicks off “the most wonderful time of year” – the official start of the NFL season! Just as in every other aspect of life, the DISC personality styles play a big role on the gridiron. While anyone can play any position despite his predominant...

Total Solar Eclipse
MARLTON, NJ, August 21, 2017 — The Take Flight Birds, like so many others across this great nation of ours, are psyched to experience today’s total solar eclipse. But as each bird represents one of the four different DISC personality styles, they are experiencing it...

Avoid Losing Friends and Followers Think “Birds” Before You Post
Avoid Losing Friends and Followers: Think “Birds” before You Post It’s inescapable. Our personalities affect everything we do – from interacting with friends, family, and co-workers – to posting on social media. As anyone who regularly scrolls through a Facebook,...

What DISC Can Teach Us about the 2016 Election
Have you noticed something different about the dialogue surrounding the 2016 presidential election? While candidates and pundits alike are talking about big-ticket issues, the focus on personality is bigger than ever. Not since the 1960’s first-ever TV debate, in...

The Key Benefits of a Taking Flight DISC Certification
Hesitant about taking yet another DISC certification course? Skeptical of whether it’s worth it? Forget what you know about traditional DISC training and immerse yourself in Take Flight Learning’s life-changing approach to teaching the DISC styles. More Learning in...

An Ancient Technique Breathes New Life into the DISC Model
Aesop’s Fables were written well over two millennia ago, but children and adults the world over can still recite at least a few tales by heart. Stories like “The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs” or “The Fox and the Crow” have appeared in countless translations and...

What Each Style Needs to Accept
We all look at the world through the lens of our own DISC style. This means that we may need to accept that others handle problems and approach the world differently than we would. And this means that we may need to accept that ‘my way is not the only way.’ Consider...

Two Species of Owl
Owls, or C’s in the DISC world, are known for their logic and accuracy. They like plans, systems, and order. You would think it would be easy to recognize an Owl by the pristine neatness of their office, since they are organizational gurus, right? Not always. You see,...