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Send us Fan Mail Applying Assessment Results  for Employee Development Cindy and Martha share their experience and wisdom in strategically developing your employees. The DISCy Chicks recommend one-on-one meetings with your direct reports once a week for thirty minutes, which are accountability meetings for both of you. They also recommend giving feedback in a very specific way vs. a very generaliz...

Send us Fan Mail The DISCy Chicks talk about assessments that can boost the bonding process for you and your new employee. Why wait 90 days to see how your new hire is fitting in? We recommend on Day 1 that the manager review new hire's  assessment with with hime or her and  even better, to review the manager's report too. You can merge both reports into a  comparison report to show the...

Send us Fan Mail Assessments that enable employee life cycle success Cindy Jacoby and Martha Forlines continue the conversation on how employee assessments can enable greater success in the employee attraction and talent acquisition stage of the employee life cycle. The DISCy Chicks describe how the DISC Behaviors, Driving Forces and Competencies (TriMetrix DNA) is used effectively in the job benc...

Send us Fan Mail Ways to use  Assessments throughout the Employee Life Cycle: Attraction, Selection, Onboarding, Development, Engagement, and Separation.  The DISCy Chicks give you an overview of each step of the life employee life cycle in this podcast. As a leader, assessments give you great insight into each of your team members so you can leverage their strengths and manage their vulnerabiliti...

Send us Fan Mail Do you resolve to give back?   To volunteer more?  The DISCy Chicks explore all twelve of the Driving Forces that enable you to find "giving" or outreach opportunities in your community that fit your top two motivators! Listen and learn about each of the driving forces, and understand the "how and why" behind each of these when it comes to finding real satisfac...

Send us Fan Mail Christie Haynes is a senior level executive that has been using the Talent Insights Assessment (DISC Behaviors and Driving Forces) for eight plus years. Listen as she describes how she and her management teams utilized these tools in a number of ways including selection of new hires using the benchmarking process.  Christie and her team found the Talent Insights report  also enabl...

Send us Fan Mail Join Cindy and Martha as they continue their discussions about the Trimetrics EQ assessment and how  to the value add to you as a leader this report. It combines Driving Forces, DISC Behaviors, and Emotional Intelligence...all in one report. We walk you through a unique way of using this report. The reality is we may be triggered at work when someone says something to us that goes...

Send us Fan Mail Join Cindy and Martha as they speak to the value add to you as a leader with the Tri-Metrix EQ report. It combines Driving Forces (Motivators), DISC Behaviors, and Emotional Intelligence...all in one report. We walk you through a unique way of using this report. The reality is we may be triggered at work when someone says something to us that goes against our primary driving force...

Send us Fan Mail DISCy Chicks Martha and Cindy continue to help you put those assessments to work for the benefit of your direct reports.  Assessments are more than just material for one-day workshop. Pull out those reports and take another  look at the 12 Driving Forces.  The Chicks choose four random driving forces and brainstorm ways you can recognize, reward and engage a direct report that mig...

Send us Fan Mail DISCy Chicks Martha and Cindy help you put those assessments to work for the benefit of your direct reports.  Assessments are more than just material for one-day workshop. Pull out those reports and take another  look at the 12 Driving Forces.  The Chicks choose four random driving forces and brainstorm ways you can recognize, reward and engage a direct report that might have one...

Send us Fan Mail What is Adaptive Behavior? Listen as the DISCy Chicks help you understand the importance of your adaptive behavior at work. The truth is we all adapt our behavior at times and particularly when we are at work, not so much at home with family and friends. Our DISC Behavior assessment provider, TTISI has developed a patented method for both a natural behavior style profile to show w...

Send us Fan Mail Turnabout is fair play!  In our last podcast, Martha facilitated a DISC debrief with Cindy. This week the tables turn and Cindy reviews Martha's hidden motivators- we call Driving Forces.   The Driving Forces is the WHY behind our behavior and are often hidden, unlike our behaviors, which makes it a little more challenging to be self-aware. Watch how to debrief this very mean...

Send us Fan Mail Listen in as Martha walks fellow DISCy Chick Cindy through her DISC report section by section. Understand what is actually in these reports and how they can grow self-awareness. Martha reviews the report having Cindy comment on how her profile (a high dominant, influence, and steady styles with a very low compliant score) actually shows up everyday. The report includes the dos and...

Send us Fan Mail The DISCy Chicks are continuing this series on selling to all four behavior styles. Listen as Martha and Cindy share their wisdom of how a High Compliant can sell to the high and low dominant, influence, steady and compliant behavior styles. Hear what this high detail-oriented seller must do to be more effective with other styles.  The key for effective selling is learning to adap...

Send us Fan Mail The DISCy Chicks are continuing this series on selling to all four behavior styles. Listen as Martha and Cindy share their wisdom of how a High Steady can sell to the high and low dominant, influence, steady and compliant behavior styles. The key for effective selling is learning to adapt to the styles that are so different from your own!  discychicks.com cindyjacoby bizhelpconsul...

Send us Fan Mail Selling can seem  natural for this people-focused, out-going communicator.  Striking up a conversation and finding things in common with a prospect come easily to a High I style.  Like with all styles, however, too much can be a turn-off.  Learn when to keep the energy high and when to tone it down and make the sale. Listen is as the DISCy Chicks walk you through the secrets of su...

Send us Fan Mail If you are a dominant (direct communicator) or a low D (reflective communicator)- these selling secrets are for you! The DISCy Chicks speak to the selling style for the high dominant (direct communicator) and the low dominant (reflective communicator) with all of the other styles. Most business owners are influencing and selling others throughout their day. Cindy and Martha share...

Send us Fan Mail TAB is "The Alternative Board".  David meets with members monthly as a peer advisory board. They offer coaching, training with a process improvement product called StrapPro, advisement, and accountability. David's members include startups as well as well established businesses as a part of his TAB participants. David doesn't begin any coaching or consulting rel...

Send us Fan Mail Meet our Guest Carol Mettenbrink, Director of Product Development for TTISI  Carol has been with our favorite assessment provider, TTISI for seven years and has been using their assessment tools for seventeen years! With her vast knowledge of all of the products, Carol has worked with very large corporations as well as smaller companies. She shares stories of how these companies h...

Send us Fan Mail The DISCY Chicks kick off 2023 with a bang as Cindy interviews high energy Amanda Moser for our final recording for 2022! Amanda is one of Cindy's clients that is a BIG user and believer in the power of the DISC Behaviors and Driving Forces assessment. She was first introduced to DISC earlier in her career with a non-profit organization. Amanda benefitted the assessment when...

Send us Fan Mail It's that time of year again for many businesses...the annual performance review process! Cindy and Martha share lots of tips for those of you that are in the middle of this critical people process in your business. Preparation is the first step. Have you reviewed the DISC behavior style and motivators for each employee prior to your one-on-one meeting? Have you reviewed thei...

Send us Fan Mail The client question that inspired this episode: "How can I get others to see the value in taking these assessments?"  The DISCy Chicks  went to the experts in leadership development...John Maxwell, Steven Covey, Daniel Goleman, and Tony Robbins to help them answer this question.  Cindy and Martha share with you the themes from the masters such as  the importance of self-...

Send us Fan Mail The latest buzzword in business performance seems to be Quiet Quitting.   The DISCy Chicks did their research to see if this was really a thing.  Quiet Quitting seems a lot like an employee engagement issue, so we went straight to the experts at Gallup to see what they say. Listen in as the Chicks talk about this trend in the workforce in the U.S.  Did you know that 50% of the wor...

Send us Fan Mail The DISCy Chicks were on the road this week, attending the annual Converge Conference for TTISI, our assessment partner! This was the first live conference since 2020 and Martha and Cindy enjoyed spending time with each other and all the other partners across the globe that use assessments to solve strategic people issues, like hiring, onboarding, and training to improve individua...

Send us Fan Mail Cindy and Martha are zooming into the next episode about your leadership team! Every time you add a new member to your leadership team, the dynamics of the team shift. The DISCy Chicks cover Tuckman's Teaming Model that every team goes through including  Forming, Storming, Norming and Performing. The right assessments can enable your team to progress through these stages quic...