Coaching in the Recipient’s Language (or Style)Have you ever tried to change a pesky habit? It’s fairly difficult. Now try to change someone else’s habits. That’s even harder…if not impossible. Sometimes, when managers coach their staff members, they try to change...
The other day, I walked by a neighbor who has strong Owl (C) and Dove (D) style tendencies.(In the DISC model, that makes him a (CS), which I refer to as the Perfectionist style pattern in Taking Flight!.) My neighbor was in the midst of yet another home improvement...
Kids say the darndest things and sometimes we can link what they say to the DISC styles. The following are four situations in which children innocently reveal their style: D (eagle) child: I have a friend who likes to play what he thinks is a cute game with his...
Kill the MutantEvery now and again, when conducting a Taking Flight with DISC training program, I encounter a team that consists of members that are primarily represented by one or two DISC styles. It might be law firm with D (eagles) attorneys, a sales team of I’s...
Do people drive you crazy? A great and wise sage once said, “Everyone driving slower than you is an idiot. Everyone driving faster than you is a maniac.” Okay, it wasn’t a world renowned philosopher, it was George Carlin. Each of us naturally believes that my way of...
We talk about the DISC styles in terms of people, but meetings can have a style too…and the style of the meeting usually correlates with the style of the person running it. The irony is, we don’t even realize that we are running meeting that satisfy our internal...
