Articles to help you reach your personal development goals. Learn how DiSC can be applied to career growth, sales, relationships, emotional intelligence, and life outside of work.
Whether you are self-employed, working across several teams, or running a company, you as an individual can build teamwork skills that will make you a better teammate on every team, starting with practicing trust.
Teams that commit end discussions with clear and specific resolutions and calls to action. They know everyone had their voice heard and will support the decision, even if they initially disagreed. How can you, as an individual, help foster this kind of environment in team settings?
Teams with accountability feel comfortable offering and accepting feedback, place good pressure on each other to perform, and confront each other when someone doesn’t follow through. How can you as an individual foster this environment on your teams?
Being a good teammate doesn’t always mean “playing nice.” Many of us have been taught we should minimize conflict, but the best team members know how to turn conflict into productive debate.
Personal reflections about automatic thoughts and how to have more productive conflict with others.
You want to be seen as a good team player: trustworthy, committed, and accountable. But what if you find yourself not being able to meet your commitments? What might be going on? How can you improve?
Invest in yourself. Take charge of your own career. Tips for putting your knowledge about yourself and others to work for your future.
Now is a great time to make a career change. Our personalities can shed some light on why it might be hard to do.
Learn how these 8 priorities—action, enthusiasm, relationships, sincerity, dependability, quality, competency, and results—shape a person’s natural sales style. The effective salesperson can stretch into the style that is best for each customer, even if it takes more energy than their natural approach.
Effective salespeople don’t take the same approach with each customer. People of different DiSC styles have different priorities during sales interactions. No matter your own DiSC style, you can stretch toward the styles of your customers to create deeper connections and increase sales.