How To Deal With A Person Who Is… CRITICAL | NEGATIVE | STERN The Critical person has many positive qualities. They are usually logical, factual, accurate and go by the book. They are continually looking for ways to make things more accurate and “perfect.” Although...
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How to deal with someone who is non-emotional and hard-to-read
How To Deal With A Person Who Is… NON-EMOTIONAL | HARD-TO-READ The biggest challenge in recognizing the Non-Emotional type is that they are the hardest to read. They blend into the background, don’t speak up and generally keep to themselves. Surprisingly, they happen...
How to deal with someone who is emotional and over-reactive
How To Deal With A Person Who Is… EMOTIONAL | OVER-REACTIVE With every personality type, you have to take the good with the bad. The Emotional-Over-reactive person has a lot of positive qualities. The Emotional person is usually people-oriented and outgoing. When...
How to deal with someone who is controlling and angry
Just counting to 10 doesn’t work when you’re on the receiving end of someone’s anger. So how do you deal with an angry person?
How To Communicate With Difficult People
At the beginning of my business, I had a sales call with a High Dominant CEO. He shared with me that on his sales team, 13 out of 16 weren’t meeting quota. I joked with him that he had too many bottom performers on his sales team because he had “nice-guy syndrome.” He...
How to customize onboarding for DISC styles (Con’t)
Last time, we sent you some ideas on how to customize onboarding for DISC styles combined with 3 different sets of values-based motivators: Theoretical (knowledge and learning) Utilitarian (ROI and resourcefulness) Aesthetic (beauty and harmony) Below we...
How to customize onboarding for DISC styles
WHEN ONBOARDING EMPLOYEES… It’s helpful to remember that not everyone is the same. What works great for some employees is going to miss-the-mark with others. While there are some standard things you want to do with all employees, there are specific things our new...
Onboarding survey to S&D (steal and deploy)
Last time we mentioned a survey that you could use to gather feedback from your most recent hires in an attempt to understand how well your company is doing when it comes to onboarding new employees. Below is that survey. Feel free to use it as is or edit it to better...
When managers won’t “onboard”
Dear DISC Wizard, My managers don’t see the need to “onboard” new hires beyond the typical filling out of paperwork and tour of the facility. How can I convince them that we need to do a better job of this – especially during such a tight labor market? ~...
Creating An Effective Onboarding Program
While comprehensive onboarding program contains many more features than what we have space to mention here, we are going to touch on just a few that are the most overlooked. PRE-HIRE The most effective onboarding programs begin before the job even starts. Consider:...
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