Description

The Enhanced Style Intro Pack is the ultimate way to learn about the styles on your own. The Pack includes the BirdBrains, Inc. Profile, BirdBrains, Inc. movie, the Taking Flight with DISC Video Series, and the eLearning with Style course.

The BirdBrains, Inc. Profile is a DISC-based assessment that utilizes Eagles, Parrots, Doves, and Owls to explain the four styles. Your profile will help you discover your strengths and challenges! In addition, the profile includes the Participant Guide for the BirdBrains, Inc. movie.

The Pack gives you the opportunity to reinforce your DISC knowledge with the world’s first interactive and animated eLearning course based on the styles. Practice skills such as people reading and adapting to others while you learn how to utilize the styles to improve communication, team dynamics, and personal effectiveness. The ten activities take approximately one-and-a-half hours to complete.

Finally, sit back and relax as you enjoy BirdBrains, Inc. and the eight debrief videos to help capture insights and apply learning.

BirdBrains, Inc. Profile

The BirdBrains, Inc. Profile is a DISC-based assessment that utilizes Eagles, Parrots, Doves, and Owls to explain the four styles. Your profile will help you discover the most interesting topic of all- you! In addition, the profile includes the Participant Guide for the BirdBrains, Inc. movie.

Personalized content includes a description of your general characteristics, strengths, behavioral tendencies and challenges. The report provides an in-depth analysis of your motivators, needs, fears, distinctive value to a team, how you relate to other styles, handle conflict, communicate, lead people, manage stress, and more.

People will also discover the characteristics of the four styles and the type of environment in which each style thrives and what they may need to do to increase effectiveness. Individuals will learn how the styles can be overused, which results in turning strengths into behavioral challenges that decrease effectiveness and can damage relationships. Additional sections of the profile provide insight into how to build rapport with each of the styles, how to communicate with each style, and what you may need to accept about each style.

The report concludes with action planning questions based on our Dynamic Action Planning process in which questions are specifically selected for the individual based on their style. Let’s face it, Eagles need to work on different things than Doves. So, we now direct the individual to create an improvement plan just for them.

The Taking Flight Profile features the bird styles from Merrick Rosenberg’s books, Taking Flight! and The Chameleon. The results of this assessment are integrated into all of Take Flight Learning’s training programs and the BirdBrains, Inc. movie debrief.

The BirdBrains, Inc. material includes eight activities that either introduce or reinforce the DISC styles (a.k.a. Eagles, Parrots, Doves, and Owls). Whether you are an experienced facilitator or someone who wants to share BirdBrains, Inc. with your team, the BirdBrains, Inc. Participant Guide makes it easy to lead a session based on the movie. If you like, you can show the eight videos led by Merrick Rosenberg (a.k.a. The Bird Guy) that link to the eight first activities in the guide, or you can use the guide to lead the discussion on your own.

The activities include:

• Activity 1:  Which Bird Are You?
• Activity 2:  Meet the Birds
• Activity 3: Don’t Impose Your Style on Others
• Activity 4:  Things That Annoy Me
• Activity 5:  Turn Judgment into Acceptance
• Activity 6:  Overusing Your Strengths
• Activity 7:  Communicating to Each Style
• Activity 8:  Be the Chameleon
• Activity 9:  Action Planning

The guide also includes a summary of lessons taught in BirdBrains, Inc.

 BirdBrains, Inc. Movie:

This entertaining 30-minute film helps people understand themselves and others by linking the DISC styles to four memorable bird characters. The styles literally come to life as learners see themselves in the story. Watch the dominant Eagle, influential Parrot, supportive Dove, and conscientious Owl as they gain style wisdom and learn how to work together to save the day. Guided by an adaptable chameleon and The Bird Guy, played by DISC styles expert Merrick Rosenberg, the characters learn to value each other’s unique strengths as you learn how to apply the styles throughout your life.

We know that emotional responses lead to long-term retention of information. We also know that auditory, visual, and kinesthetic learning experiences generate heightened retention and lasting results. BirdBrains, Inc. allows learners to watch the styles in action, learn about themselves and others through two humorous songs, gain practical advice from clearly stated lessons, and participate in an active debrief session to turn insights into action. There has never been a more powerful way to learn about the DISC styles.

BirdBrains, Inc. viewers will learn the following lessons from the film:

• There is strength in flexibility.
• Treat others how they need to be treated, not how you want to be treated.
• Appreciate the gifts each style brings.
• Use the right style at the right time.
• Use your strengths but don’t overuse them.
• Don’t impose your style on others.

Monkey Boys Productions crafted the characters. They have created puppets, props, and creatures for theme parks, stage, television, and movies, including Sea World, Little Shop of Horrors, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, and Saturday Night Live. Big Howl Productions produced and directed the film. They have produced animation and puppetry projects for clients like SyFy Channel, Netflix, and Hasbro. Grammy-nominated musician David Young produced the two musical numbers.

The BirdBrains, Inc. movie and debrief videos are subtitled in English and Spanish.

eLearning with Style:

We all know that learning is a process, not an event. So why are most DISC training programs once-and-done experiences? The eLearning with Style course reinforces the concepts taught in the classroom and introduces new skills for applying the styles in daily interactions. The ten activities take approximately one-and-a-half hours to complete.

Review the core concepts of understanding the styles and practice identifying styles from looking at an individual’s office, reading a text message, and through tone and body language. Gain new insights into utilizing the styles to maximize individual and team effectiveness.

The eLearning activities include:

• Word Match
• Bird Watching
• Which Bird Left the Voicemail?
• Whose Office?
• Microflock Teams
• Strike a Pose
• The Wild Life of Wildlife
• Bird Match
• Who’s Missing?
• Red Zone vs. Green Zone

See why people call this course both fun and impactful!

Taking Flight with DISC Video Series:

In the 33 videos of the Taking Flight with DISC Video Series, Merrick Rosenberg, a.k.a. the Bird Guy, shares deep insights about the Eagle, Parrot, Dove, and Owl styles. Watch the videos to gain more insights about the styles. And if you like, you can even show the videos in the classroom.

You will gain access to the videos through Take Flight Learning’s Learning Management System.

The video series includes:

1. Introduction 1 – Intro to the 4 Styles
2. Introduction 1 – History of the 4 Styles
3. The Four Styles 1 – Four Birds
4. The Four Styles 2 – The Eagle Style
5. The Four Styles 3 – The Parrot Style
6. The Four Styles 4 -The Dove Style
7. The Four Styles 5 – The Owl Style
8. Identifying the Styles 1 – Style Combinations
9. Identifying the Styles 2 – People-Reading
10. Overusing Strengths 1 – Overusing Our Strengths
11. Style Differences 1 – Listening
12. Style Differences 2 – Change & Communicating to Groups
13. Style Differences 3 – Time Management
14. Style Differences 4 – Feedback
15. Style Differences 5 – Conflict
16. Style Differences 6 – I Know That I’m Right
17. Style Flexibility 1 – The Home Rule
18. Style Flexibility 2 – Light Switch Email
19. Style Polarities 1 – Focus
20. Style Polarities 2 – Delegation
21. Style Polarities 3 – Stress
22. Style Polarities 4 – Fears
23. Style Polarities 5 – Risk-Taking
24. Style Polarities 6 – Rewards
25. Style Polarities 7 – Preferences
26. Style Polarities 8 – Communication
27. Styles in Action 1 – Water Cooler
28. Styles in Action 2 – Buying a TV
29. Team Dynamics 1 – Team Dynamics
30. Team Dynamics 2 – The Dynamics Grid
31. Your Results – Understanding Your Graph
32. Your Results – Understanding Your Strengths
33. Closing – Thank You