Business objectives are like mountaintops, and it takes leadership skills and qualities to reach them. Some people climb mountains because they’re there. Others develop ‘summit fever’ as the planning, preparations, dangers, challenges, lessons, and rewards help them become the best they can be. Transformational leaders are like that. They target a seemingly insurmountable goal and […]
You can avoid becoming a part of the corporate dust heap through rigorous personality profile training.
In 1939, three researchers interested in personality training development, Lewin, Lippitt, and White, studied a group of school children and identified three major leadership styles – authoritarian, laissez-faire, and democratic. Interestingly, the style that might seem the most liberating and inspiring can actually be the most frustrating and constraining, as the three researchers discovered.
Forceful, authoritative, but productive leadership can be honed through rigorous personality enhancement training.
For most people, understanding personality types is essentially all about “what you see is what you get,” but this approach will only carry you so far in today’s competitive work environment. If your team has trouble interacting with each other, or with other departments in your organization, there’s a good chance that it is simply […]
Whew! Graduation day! We made it. No more all-night study sessions. No more exams. No more bullies – or so we thought. For many of us, the hardships of school life followed us to work. Yes, miraculously [and ironically], many of the same character-types that tormented us in school have materialized at our jobs. Unfortunately, there’s […]
Does your company actively engage in effective leadership development? Does the company think about how to support rising stars or plan for inevitable changes at the executive level? A recent report from Stanford University Graduate School of Business highlights challenges that many businesses face when creating a succession plan for executive leadership and when developing […]
DiSC® is not a personality test. I repeat – DiSC® is not a personality test. Personality tests are used to measure someone’s psychological makeup or character. DiSC® is often referred to as a personality test because the term “personality test” is familiar. To help you understand the DiSC® personality test, which is really an assessment […]
A DiSC® workshop can help boost self-awareness and build trust among team members “At the most basic level, the need to trust implies one fundamental fact: you’re vulnerable.” ~ David DeSteno, Ph.D. Deciding to participate in a DiSC® workshop to assess one’s personality is risky. However, successful leaders understand being vulnerable is necessary to learn […]
Recently we were asked to deliver our DiSC® Personality Discovery workshop for a team at English Dermatology in Phoenix, Arizona. The Director of Operations participated in the DiSC® program during graduate studies at Arizona State University and found great value in understanding where other people were coming from and why people’s actions and reactions are […]
