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The Power of Personality: Using Motivators to Motivate Without Money™: Motivating an Individualistic
Goal setting! Key performance indicators (KPIs)! Accountability! Organizations are screaming for staff to do more with less. They want people to accept responsibility for their work. They want them to work longer and harder. Employees...
Using Motivators to Motivate Without Money: Motivating a Theorical
A Question? Does your spouse only do things for you if you pay them? Does your best friend only do things for you because you pay them? Do YOU only do things for others when they pay you? Of course NOT!!! We do things for spouses, friends, our children, and some times...
How Can I Benefit From Emotional Intelligence? Part 5: Social Regulation
Social Regulation Do people come to you to “make peace” between “waring” parties? Or, would you like to have the capabilities to be that person, the “peace maker?” Do you inspire and guide individuals and groups? Or, would you like to increase those...
Celebrity Profiles
When I first started to learn about Taylor Swift I thought, here we have a superstar who is a huge “I” DISC behavior style with an even larger “D” behavior. After all,...
Benjamin Franklin is out flying a kite again. This time with a key attached. He was waiting for a huge thunderstorm with lightening, thunder and rain. He’s got the...
Whether it’s lunch with Leonardo DiCaprio in “The Wolf of Wall Street,” Kate Hudson’s “challenge” in “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days,” or in the “Dallas Buyers Club,”...
The Legally Blonde 1 & 2 beauty queen (She has won at least a dozen child and then celebrity beauty honors.) is much more then “just another pretty face.” You’d...
She has played Queen Elizabeth (twice), Princess Galadriel in The Lord of the Ring movies, and the Russian villain in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal...
Clooney has a reputation as a practical joker, wise guy, and well- liked villain actor. He has been nominated for a number of awards and received three Golden Globes...
Coaching
The Power of Personality: Using Motivators to Motivate Without Money™: Motivating an Individualistic
Goal setting! Key performance indicators (KPIs)! Accountability! Organizations are screaming for staff to do more with less. They want people to...
A Question? Does your spouse only do things for you if you pay them? Does your best friend only do things for you because you pay them? Do YOU only do things for others...
“I never waste time!” It’s others who waste my time! How do I stop that? Here’s the BAD news! No matter the reason for wasting time, it’s YOUR responsibility to manage...
Are one or more of your coaching clients not making as much progress as you would like? Are you frustrated because you can’t get through to them? Are you not making as...
Ever worked with a very intense “C” and tried to get them to understand there is a human side to the work? How about if you are the intense “C” and people just...
We all experience and handle stress in different ways. “Stress, it’s just a state of mind. I have it under control” (says the confident “D” style). “I can handle the...
DISC
Staff turnover is expensive! A common “rule of thumb estimate” suggests it cost 25% to 200% of a leaving staff’s annual compensation each time someone...
One of the many myths I dispel in our DISC Certification course is that DISC scores do not change over time. Can a person’s DISC score change? Absolutely! Do they...
Situation:A particular office had a history of repeatedly hiring poor performing administrative assistants. We did a DISC behavior team report on the entire...
Are one or more of your coaching clients not making as much progress as you would like? Are you frustrated because you can’t get through to them? Are you not making as...
Two people you know take our DISC and have almost identical DISC scores, but they are as different as night and day. If DISC is a personality profile, how can...
Ever worked with a very intense “C” and tried to get them to understand there is a human side to the work? How about if you are the intense “C” and people just...
Myths About D.I.S.C. Several years ago, I wrote a series of articles on myths regarding the D.I.S.C. behavioral assessment. I want to revisit just two of those myths...
We all experience and handle stress in different ways. “Stress, it’s just a state of mind. I have it under control” (says the confident “D” style). “I can handle the...
DISC & Motivators Certification
The Power of Personality: Using Motivators to Motivate Without Money™: Motivating an Individualistic
Goal setting! Key performance indicators (KPIs)! Accountability! Organizations are screaming for staff to do more with less. They want people to...
A Question? Does your spouse only do things for you if you pay them? Does your best friend only do things for you because you pay them? Do YOU only do things for others...
Party, Party, Party! That might be the “call” when some hear the word “social.” But in our case, “social” means giving to others or society. The mantra for people with...
“I never waste time!” It’s others who waste my time! How do I stop that? Here’s the BAD news! No matter the reason for wasting time, it’s YOUR responsibility to manage...
One of the many myths I dispel in our DISC Certification course is that DISC scores do not change over time. Can a person’s DISC score change? Absolutely! Do they...
Facilitating dozens of DISC Certifications with 100s of now DISC certified practitioners has taught me a number of things about what makes for a quality DISC...
Are one or more of your coaching clients not making as much progress as you would like? Are you frustrated because you can’t get through to them? Are you not making as...
Identifying whether or not someone is experiencing stress is one of over 100 techniques we discuss in our DISC & Motives Certification course. In this article, I...
Money rarely creates loyalty. Just think about it. People leave one organization to go to another organization for more money all the time. Sometimes it's 5% more....
Emotional Intelligence Certification
Social Regulation Do people come to you to “make peace” between “waring” parties? Or, would you like to have the capabilities to be that person, the “peace...
Are you the type of person who people share all kinds of personal things with? Are you able to read people from their non-verbal behavior and body language? Do...
“My kid won’t study that class’s materials. They CAN’T STAND the teacher and that demotivates them.” “John is a real pain in you know what! It’s near...
“I am not angry” screams the boss at a staff member. “I don’t care what my best friend said about me on Facebook,” says the teary-eyed high schooler. ...
Your manager has this “explosive” personality. They have no problem at all blaming others when things go wrong. Maybe it’s not your manager. Maybe...
Engagement
Staff turnover is expensive! A common “rule of thumb estimate” suggests it cost 25% to 200% of a leaving staff’s annual compensation each time someone...
Interviewing & Hiring
Part 2: Rules for Interview Effectiveness It is time for the main event, the actual interview. Hopefully, your pre-interview tasks recommended in Part 1 of this article...
Part 1: Rule For Pre-Interview Effectiveness On a scale from 1 to 10, how would you rank your success hiring staff? Be honest now. Most people believe they can...
Like everything else; successful approaches to hiring people have changed. A recent Wall Street Journal (WSJ) article points out a number of maladies experienced by job...
Leadership
The Power of Personality: Using Motivators to Motivate Without Money™: Motivating an Individualistic
Goal setting! Key performance indicators (KPIs)! Accountability! Organizations are screaming for staff to do more with less. They want people to...
A Question? Does your spouse only do things for you if you pay them? Does your best friend only do things for you because you pay them? Do YOU only do things for others...
Like everything else; successful approaches to hiring people have changed. A recent Wall Street Journal (WSJ) article points out a number of maladies experienced by job...
Money rarely creates loyalty. Just think about it. People leave one organization to go to another organization for more money all the time. Sometimes it's 5% more....
Motivators/Driving Forces
The Power of Personality: Using Motivators to Motivate Without Money™: Motivating an Individualistic
Goal setting! Key performance indicators (KPIs)! Accountability! Organizations are screaming for staff to do more with less. They want people to...
A Question? Does your spouse only do things for you if you pay them? Does your best friend only do things for you because you pay them? Do YOU only do things for others...
Party, Party, Party! That might be the “call” when some hear the word “social.” But in our case, “social” means giving to others or society. The mantra for people with...
Money rarely creates loyalty. Just think about it. People leave one organization to go to another organization for more money all the time. Sometimes it's 5% more....
Onboarding
Part 2: Rules for Interview Effectiveness It is time for the main event, the actual interview. Hopefully, your pre-interview tasks recommended in Part 1 of this article...
Part 1: Rule For Pre-Interview Effectiveness On a scale from 1 to 10, how would you rank your success hiring staff? Be honest now. Most people believe they can...
Like everything else; successful approaches to hiring people have changed. A recent Wall Street Journal (WSJ) article points out a number of maladies experienced by job...
Has a new staff person just arrived and been assigned to work with you? What is she like? How do you communicate or motivate her? What value will she bring to your...
Coaching is an incredibly competitive field with so many individuals offering consulting services, and organizations utilizing coaches to drive performance. Coaching...
Four Positive Outcomes of Onboarding Are people you know stressed because of a misunderstanding or conflict with others? Are they satisfied and committed because they...
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the adoption of remote work. People started to realize teams could operate successfully without being confined to a single geographic...
Stress
There are many different types of teams; executive teams, administrative teams, project teams, taskforce teams, sales teams… Teams can be from many different types of...
Identifying whether or not someone is experiencing stress is one of over 100 techniques we discuss in our DISC & Motives Certification course. In this article, I...
We all experience and handle stress in different ways. “Stress, it’s just a state of mind. I have it under control” (says the confident “D” style). “I can handle the...
Team Building
There are many different types of teams; executive teams, administrative teams, project teams, taskforce teams, sales teams… Teams can be from many different types of...
Situation:A particular office had a history of repeatedly hiring poor performing administrative assistants. We did a DISC behavior team report on the entire...
The biggest misunderstanding of why people leave is that money will solve the problem. It’s a myth that paying people more is THE answer to retaining staff. It is true...
If you want read “Why Teams Work - Part 1“ click here Fosters Different Ideas, Creativity, & Innovation When people have different tasks, they also see things...
Everywhere we look, in the media and at work, we hear “teams.” Microsoft has even developed an entire teams platform and has an intense advertising campaign telling us...
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the adoption of remote work. People started to realize teams could operate successfully without being confined to a single geographic...
Turnover
Staff turnover is expensive! A common “rule of thumb estimate” suggests it cost 25% to 200% of a leaving staff’s annual compensation each time someone...
The biggest misunderstanding of why people leave is that money will solve the problem. It’s a myth that paying people more is THE answer to retaining staff. It is true...
Using Assessment Reports
“I never waste time!” It’s others who waste my time! How do I stop that? Here’s the BAD news! No matter the reason for wasting time, it’s YOUR responsibility to manage...
Staff turnover is expensive! A common “rule of thumb estimate” suggests it cost 25% to 200% of a leaving staff’s annual compensation each time someone...
