Category: DiSC Classic

How to Motivate Teams with the Disc Profile-Guest Blog

Guest Post by Janet Cortright Knowing How to Motivate Teams is always a challenge.   We’re always faced with motivating other people to do things.  You want your employees to work harder, your customers to buy, your employer to advance you, your co-workers to take a deeper interest in their work, or you want your …

DiSC® Profiles and Wonder Woman

It’s true! The author of the DiSC® Behavioral Profile Model is also the creator, writer and producer of the comics super hero Wonder Woman, which was introduced into comic strips as the  a strong female role model of the dominant personality traits in the DiSC® Personality Profile. Wonder Woman is a DC Comics superheroine created by …

DiSC® Profiles – Upgrade from DiSC® Graph to DiSC® Circles

DiSC® Profiles have evolved to meet the evolved workplace! So, you’ve used DiSC® Classic Profiles for a long time . . . and you’re reluctant to upgrade to Everything DiSC® Profiles? Here are a few tips to help you to overcome your upgrade reluctance, and consider using the new Everything DiSC® Profiles rather than DiSC® …

The “Education of Silence”

20th-century management guru Peter Drucker once said, “The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t said.” It’s often said that most of what we communicate comes in the form of non-verbal communication. Non-verbal communication can be anything from tone to body language to format such as email or text.  Therefore to be …

DiSC® Training Certification – Questions to Ask Yourself

Customers often call to inquire about DiSC® Training Certification.  They want to know if they need to complete certification to purchase and use Everything DiSC® Profiles by Inscape – A Wiley Brand Our answer is that DiSC® Training Certification is not required, but it is available.  We partner with Inscape Publishing to offer our customers …

The Five Behaviors™ of a Cohesive Team Authorized Partner

Build a cohesive and effective team with The Five Behaviors™ of a Cohesive Team™ and achieve an important but simple goal: Facilitate a learning experience that helps your organization discover what it takes to build a truly cohesive and effective team. The Five Behaviors™ profile, which provides both individual and team feedback, is grounded in the model described …

Myers Briggs Test Online vs DiSC® Profile Online

The Myers Briggs Test Online and the DiSC® Profile Test approach the challenge of understanding people from two fundamentally different points of view. The Myers-Briggs Profile Test seeks to describe personality which is often set early in life, while The DiSC® Profile by Inscape Publishing describes human behavior in specific situations.  The distinction being that personality is our overall …

5 Ways to Build a Functional Team

Turn your dysfunctional team into a functional and thriving team In his best-selling book, The FIVE Dysfunctions of a TEAM, Patrick Lencioni reveals the five dysfunctions that go to the very heart of why teams often struggle.  He outlines a powerful model and actionable steps that can be used to overcome these common hurdles and become …

DiSC® Profiles for Recruiting and Hiring

Studies show that the average cost to re-hire an employee can add up to 25 to 250 percent of their annual salary. So, hiring the right person the first time can save your organization thousands of dollars. Many organizations use DiSC® Profiles to assess the corporate culture and understand how an employee will fit within …

Testing – The Key to Motivating Other People . . .

Why People Will Give You What You Want Bob Conklin, the author of Adventures in Attitudes, taught that the key to persuading, leading, motivating, selling, supervising, influencing, guiding others – or getting others to do things is contained in the following quote. “To the degree you give others what they want; they will give you what …

The EPIC Edge

EPIC is an online profile delivery system that provides a simple way to send, customize, print, and store online assessments. As an EPIC system administrator, you have full control.