Category: Blog
Understanding stress with the DISC styles
We all have moments when we experience stress. When it hits, we feel it in our bodies and it impacts our ability to think clearly. Some stress is motivating and encourages us. It causes us to kick into gear and get things done. Other stress is depleting and exhausts...
Group and Organizational DISC Styles
Just as we can use the DISC styles to better understand people, we can apply the same DISC system model to understanding companies. While there isn’t necessarily a personality test for an organization, the styles reflect themselves in how companies innovate, manage...
What Would Dorian Do?
Sometimes, we find ourselves in situations that require us to act ways that are outside of our comfort zone. When this happens, at best, we feel uncomfortable. At worst, the fear becomes so overwhelming that we do whatever we can to avoid the situation. But how do we...
The Interview
Are you going on an interview? If so, wait! What does your DISC style reveal about how you are likely to come across? If you don’t know your own DISC style yet, take a free profile on Takeflightlearning.com. As an Eagle, (Dominant style) remember that your confidence...
Filing System
My daughter and I got in the car for a trip to the store. She needed to return and exchange an item we had purchased a week before. “You do have the receipt, right?” she asked nervously. “Of course I do!” I responded with a big smile. “I’ve got a filing system for...
7 Habits Of Highly Effective People Who Understand The DISC Styles
In honor of Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, I thought I’d have some fun with his model of applying seven habits to increase our effectiveness. In this case, I outline seven habits that relate to the DISC model of behavior. What follows are the 7...
Thank you, thank you
You walk into a room and everyone erupts in applause. How do you react?The answer to that question depends largely on your personality. Your DISC style might even predict your response. The group starts to applaud and the Dominant eagle might ask, “What did I do?”...
At what age can we determine DISC style?
One of the most common questions I get when leading sessions based on the DISC model goes something like, “How old do children have to be before we can figure out what style they are?” In considering my own children (I have two boys, one I and one C), I was able to...
The Table is on Fire
As I enjoyed a quiet dinner at an Italian restaurant on a recent business trip to Richmond, Virginia, something caught my attention out of the corner of my eye. While cleaning off a table, a busboy inadvertently knocked over an oil lamp. The oil immediately spread...
Are you more interested or interesting?
If there’s one challenge that seems to befuddle the I Parrot, it’s balancing being interested with being interesting. Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that I’s aren’t interested in you, it’s just that they put more energy into sharing stories about themselves....
