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Archive for September, 2010

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Thursday, September 30th, 2010

We all face a daily dilemma:  too much to do and not enough time to do it.  Although time is not adaptable, people are.  Managing time means adapting ourselves to its passage in some satisfying manner.

Time Mastery Online ProfileThe Time Mastery Profile is an easy-to-use self-assessment survey instrument that helps us to identify our time management strengths and limitations.  It gives us an opportunity to compare our time management behavioral styles to the behaviors of effective time managers in order to assess ourselves in 12 key categories of time management.  The Time Mastery Profile not only provides background information on each of these categories of time management, it also helps us identify our weakest categories in order to improve our time management habits in these areas.

The Time Mastery Profile is a contract for change that individuals make with themselves.  It’s a working document that participants can use for their personal as well as professional time management needs, on their own or at work.  It walks them through the process of developing Action Plans and improving their time management habits.

Time MasteryThe Time Mastery Profile is a professional, informative, effective time management assessment tool, reference resource and contract for change.  By helping people manage their time more effectively, the Time Mastery Profile enables them to increase their productivity on the job or at home, enhance the quality of their work with less stress, and gain a sense of personal satisfaction and accomplishment as they achieve more with their time.

Tuesday, September 28th, 2010

Time Mastery Online ProfileThe Time Mastery Profile is so flexible that it can be used in a variety of training programs with objectives other than time management.  These are a few examples of the training and development needs it can meet:

Management/Supervisory Training

The Time Mastery Profile can help both new and experienced managers and supervisors handle their time more efficiently and productively.

The Time Mastery Profile can help them:

  • Set realistic goals
  • Plan and schedule multiple activities
  • Handle multiple priorities
  • Plan and prepare productive meetings
  • Sort and process written communication efficiently
  • Delegate successfully

Support Staff Training

The Time Mastery Profile can also help support staff manage their time more effectively.

The Time Mastery Profile can help them:

  • Develop “can do” attitudes toward time management
  • Handle multiple priorities
  • Control their tendency to procrastinate
  • Control their tendency to interrupt others, and limit the interruptions of others
  • Team Building

The Time Mastery Profile can help team members develop an understanding of and appreciation for the time of others.

The Time Mastery Profile can help them:

  • Communicate and coordinate their plans quickly and efficiently
  • Control their tendency to interrupt others, and limit the interruptions of others
  • Make interactions with team members more productive

The Time Mastery Profile can also help improve:

  • Time and Territory Management programs for salespeople
  • Total Quality Management programs

Monday, September 27th, 2010

Everything DiSC 363 for Leaders ModelFinally, a 360° for DiSC users.  But the Everything DiSC 363 for Leaders isn’t just any 360.  It combines the beat of 360s with the simplicity and power of DiSC, plus 3 personalized strategies (thus the name 363) for improving leadership effectiveness.  The result is a 360° experience that’s more productive and satisfying.

SO HOW IS THE 363 SO DIFFERENT?

First, we took the sting out of 360 feedback.
For many leaders, 360s can be a frustrating experience. Open-ended comments can be unfocused and unhelpful and can even derail the learning process. With our exclusive selectable comments feature, CommentSmart, raters can give focused, balanced, constructive feedback—that the leader can actually use.

Then, we made it easier to understand and use.
Everything DiSC 363 for Leaders isn’t a collection of dry spreadsheets and charts without any explanation or story. Clear visuals and a conversational narrative style interpret and explain the data, making the report easy to understand and use.

And finally, we answered the “Now what?”
With a lot of 360s, the leader’s response can be, “Now what?” Everything DiSC 363 for Leaders answers that question by giving leaders their next steps with three things they can focus on now.

All-New Profile
Research-validated, personalized online assessment with a 22+ page 360° profile helps leaders understand how others see them, using intuitive, easy-to-read visuals, rich cuts of data and feedback breakdowns, plus 3 personalized strategies for effectiveness.

CommentSmart
Save time and reduce stress with CommentSmart, our exclusive selectable comments feature that allows raters to choose from highly-tested, behavior-focused comments to give more richness, context, and depth to their feedback.

Leaders and Raters
Leaders are given a two-part online assessment: The Everything DiSC assessment and the Leadership Behavior section about how they tend to lead.

Raters are given a two-part online assessment: the same Leadership Behavior section that the leader takes and the Leadership Requests section that asks which leadership practices they’d like to see the leader do more of.

Raters are broken into four groups:

  • Direct Reports
  • Peers
  • Managers
  • Others

Any combination of groups may be used and leaders can have an unlimited number of raters when you have an EPIC Account.

Finally, these 3 Videos that offer a deeper understanding of what makes up the Everything DiSC 363 for Leaders:

Thursday, September 23rd, 2010

Diverse GroupUnited States demographics are shifting, impacting the mix of individuals employed by organizations.  Workers’ cultural backgrounds and expectations—social, political and occupational—have the potential to enrich our national life and make our organizations more competitive.    But before such benefits can be realized, business practices must be updated to reflect the changes in workers, and workers must learn to deal effectively with the differences in the workplace.

Understanding diversity helps facilitate personal growth and organizational change.  However, comfort and ease in a workplace does not happen overnight.  Every day we make assumptions about others.  These assumptions may be based on past experiences, current perceptions, media stereotypes, or a friend’s opinion.  We attempt to make sense of our world with the limited information we have at a given moment.  If our assumptions are incorrect, we may run into trouble.  When we are aware that people have different perceptions of the same issue, situation, or event, we can begin to focus on understanding the other person’s point of view and creating an environment that supports everyone.

Try the Discovering Diversity Profile to see how you view diversity issues.

Thursday, September 16th, 2010

Discovering Diversity Online ProfileDiversity has many forms and layers.  Diversity is present not only when we see physical differences—such as skin color, types of dress, or physical disabilities—but also in our different cultural backgrounds.  Diversity includes differences in age, gender, race, sexual orientation, and ethnic background.  We were all born and raised within a cultural context, for example, in the northeastern United States, the deep South, or Latin America.  These cultural contexts create differences in family structure, peer relationships, education, and other influences that contribute to who we are today.

Cultural differences influence the way we think, interact, and make choices.  These characteristics may cause group members to interact in ways that enhance their relationships.  They may also interfere with a team member’s ability to achieve his or her individual or group objectives.

In what cultural context do you view diversity issues?

Find out what your views of diversity are with The Discovering Diversity Profile and improve how you deal with diversity issues.

Tuesday, September 14th, 2010

DiSC Classic 2.0 ProfileMany people incorrectly assume there must be one best way of accomplishing tasks.  For example, someone may ask, “What DiSC Classic 2.0 Profile Pattern should a manager have?”  There is no one DiSC Classic Profile Pattern that is better for a manager than any other DiSC Classic Profile Pattern.  Managers with different patterns may approach their managerial duties differently, and then may react differently to a particular situation or to an individual employee, but each may be just as effective as a manager.

Success often has to do with a person’s motivation to succeed.  Another factor that contributes to success is that people often modify their environment to suit the way they like to do things.  A High “S” salesperson may focus on developing a sincere, trusting relationship with clients instead of going for the quick close.  People’s success is not connected to having certain behavioral styles.  Instead, people are effective if they know themselves, understand others, and can adapt to the needs of the situation.

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

DiSC Profiles are not intended to encourage people to change their behavioral styles.  Instead, it focuses on helping people identify their strengths and possible limitations.  Also, pressure for radical change implies that someone’s Dimension of Behavior or DiSC Classical Profile Pattern (the way in which a person’s four dimensions of Dominance, Influence, Steadiness, and Conscientiousness combine creates a profile pattern that is different for each combination) is inadequate.  Most people willingly accept the description of their behavioral styles and are eager to develop skills to make themselves more effective.

DiSC Classic Profiles help us to understand ourselves and how our behavior affects others.   We learn how to maximize what we do well, have a positive attitude about ourselves and, most importantly, know how to adapt our behavior to meet the needs of other people.  Instead of being at each other, we can learn to successfully be with each other.  We learn to give others what they need so that we can get what we want.  DiSC profiles are not diagnostic tools, but dialog tools.

Behavioral Styles identified in the DiSC Profile are always shown to be tendencies not fixed responses to situations.

Our most popular online DiSC Profile is the DiSC Classic 2.0.

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

Team Dimensions 2.0 ProfileTo Build Effective Focused Teams

Successful team members don’t do the same thing at the same time. They do the right thing at the right time.  The Team Dimensions 2.0 Profile helps individuals work from their strengths by identifying their most natural team role, while giving them added appreciation for the contributions of others.

Discover the Right Roles for the Right People for Team Development

The Team Dimensions 2.0 Profile identifies the following five team roles:

  • Creators generate new ideas and fresh concepts.
  • Advancers communicate new ideas and carry them forward.
  • Refiners analyze ideas for flaws or revise projects systematically.
  • Executors deliver concrete results and seek successful implementations.
  • Flexers have an equal preference for most or all of the roles and can often adapt their styles to fit the team’s needs.

“Z PROCESS” Keeps Teams Moving in the Right Direction

The Team Dimensions 2.0 Profile maps the flow of assigning roles, completing tasks, and handing off tasks to other team members through the “Z Process.”

In this relay process, tasks are passed from Creators to Advancers, from Advancers to Refiners, and from Refiners to Executors. Flexers fill in the gaps to keep the process moving forward.

To Capitalize on Individual Strengths for Total Team Performance

As organizations rely more on teams to innovate, problem-solve, produce, and compete at the speed of change, understanding and capitalizing on individual approaches to group processes is key to creating high-performance teams. Use the Team Dimensions 2.0 Profile to:

  • Match individual strengths with team roles
  • Build team unity
  • Foster innovation
  • Shorten project cycle time
  • Reduce conflict

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

The crossed hands of teamwork.In addition to the four approaches there are Four Basic Roles identified in the Team Dimensions 2.0 Profile:

  • Creator – The Conceptual and Spontaneous Approaches combine to form the Creator role.  The Creator generates fresh, original, out-of-the-box concepts and ideas in ways that defy generally accepted structures or rules.  The Creator perceives “the big picture.”
  • Advancer – The Spontaneous and Normative Approaches combine to form the Advancer role.  The Advancer recognizes ideas and new directions in the early stages and develops ways to promote them.  The Advancer uses insightful planning based on past experiences and proven methods to advance ideas towards implementation.
  • Refiner – The Conceptual and Methodical Approaches combine to form the Refiner role.  The Refiner challenges concepts, often playing the devil’s advocate.  Using a methodical process to analyze things in an orderly manner, the Refiner will detect flaws, identify potential problems, and suggest alternative solutions.
  • Executor – The Methodical and Normative Approaches combine to form the Executor role.  The Executor lays the groundwork for implementation, ensuring that the process moves forward in an orderly manner to achieve high-quality results.

A fifth role, the Flexer, appears when an individual uses a combination of all four innovative approaches.

  • Flexer – The Flexer monitors the contributions of all team members and steps in to fill gaps in the team during the various stages of the process.

This information helps team development and the creation of a stronger and more cohesive team.