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Send us Fan Mail Does your business need a people strategy? The DISCy Chicks are baaack following a summer break! Season 5's theme is how you as a leader or CEO of your business can strategically use assessments to enable organization-wide success with your employees, customers, and vendors. Cindy and Martha are zooming out this season to take a strategic look at how assessments can help you...

Send us Fan Mail Hall of Fame Episode from November 2020 Apply DISC Watching Your Favorite TV Shows and Movies Watching the characters in your favorite TV shows is a great way to practice identifying DISC styles.  The DISCy Chicks changed things up a bit and came up with our favorite examples of DISC styles straight from our favorite TV shows and movies, Want to learn how to translate people'...

Send us Fan Mail Join us this week as we interview Dana Cain, Director of Finance and Accounting for JES Holdings, a fully integrated real estate development business (that is a client of Martha's). Dana shares her story of becoming a finance and accounting leader and how she intentionally utilizes DISC Behaviors and Driving Forces in managing her team and relationships across the JES organiz...

Send us Fan Mail Listen to the DISCy Chicks as they share the Emotional Intelligence eBook's tips and tricks that have worked for their clients  to improve the five domains of emotional intelligence.  Cindy and Martha also share real life client success stories for those who wanted to develop their self-awareness and self-regulation capabilities. Think about what you want to improve with your...

Send us Fan Mail Join the DISCy Chicks as they interview Stacy Axon, CEO of Aspire and Thrive and business development consultant for our assessment partner TTISI. As a serial entrepreneur, she has found her passion helping people to better understand themselves to pursue their purpose and passion. She believes that we are a whole person, which includes body, mind, spirit, and our emotions, whethe...

Send us Fan Mail Cindy and Martha walk you through the Emotional Intelligence domain of motivation . Being motivated by the work itself goes beyond just your paycheck. Some might describe it as your passion. Either way, this results in intrinsic satisfaction. If you don't receive that handful of driving forces, it can lead to lack of engagement and your performance may suffer.  Tips to help y...

Send us Fan Mail Show Notes Cindy and Martha share their wisdom about EQ and leadership. High performance is the hallmark for leaders with high emotional intelligence. So, what does this look like? Effective leaders are trustworthy and show up in a consistent, reliable way and can relate to people that are different from them by meeting each employee where they are. They are also relatable and abl...

Send us Fan Mail The Chicks, Cindy and Martha, address the  elements of emotional intelligence as it relates to others in the form of  social awareness and social regulation. Social awareness has two primary components, the ability to show empathy, like being able to walk a mile in someone else's shoes. The second component is being able to read the room during a team meeting or a larger grou...

Send us Fan Mail The DISCy Chicks welcome Ron Oltmanns to our podcast. He is president of his own business LeadSkill that helps leaders grow their self-awareness which enables them in turn to grow their teams. Ron has a keen focus on EQ in the development of leaders and more specifically in how to help them clearly identify what emotions they experience throughout their day.  Ron has expanded  Plu...

Send us Fan Mail Cindy and Martha continue the conversation about Emotional Intelligence and dive into the first two domains of EQ, self-awareness and self-regulation. Watch (or listen) as they review a simplified neurological and physiological sequence of events that occur when you have an emotional response at work or at home.  And, of course they offer potential solutions to be self-aware and r...

Send us Fan Mail The DISCy Chicks are excited to introduce another assessment science to you! Listen as they walk you through the five domains of emotional intelligence; self-awareness, self-regulation and motivation, which are the intrapersonal dimensions of EQ and social awareness and social regulation are the interpersonal dimensions. The benefits of growing your emotional intelligence are bein...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to our final session about  professional and personal growth using the DISC  Behavior and Driving Forces assessment. Cindy talks Martha through her blended behaviors and driving forces portion of this report. Listen to how these blended sciences play out for her every day!  Remember, you can take a free assessment from our Facebook page or our DISCy Chicks website below!

Send us Fan Mail Turnabout is fair play, as Cindy coaches Martha around her top four Driving Forces or motivators. Your motivators are your WHY - why you do what you do or what gets you out of bed in the morning. Watch and listen as she reveals her truth behind her primary motivators, the good outcomes and not as good outcomes of the choices she made with her own business start up. Enjoy! DISCy Ch...

Send us Fan Mail The DISCy Chicks continue the "professional growth and development" topic this week by reviewing key pages in the blended behaviors and motivators section of Cindy's report.  Listen to the discussion about her blended strengths, potential conflicts, and her ideal work environment. Understanding your strengths, vulnerabilities, and what you need in your work environm...

Send us Fan Mail It's spring time and the DISCy Chicks will be focusing on the topic of growth and development in April. In this session Cindy and Martha review Cindy's strengths and development opportunities from her own DISC report.  Martha facilitates this conversation with Cindy to give you a snapshot of a mini coaching session so she can leverage her strengths and manage her develop...

Send us Fan Mail The DISCy Chicks have our first video guest, Yvonne Reese, owner of Yvonne Reese Consulting. Her practice focuses on coaching sales professionals, and her number one go to assessment is DISC!  Listen as she shares her success stories helping sales people meet prospects where they are behaviorally as well as the importance of adapting to your prospects' behavior style to conne...

Send us Fan Mail The Chicks have gone live on Facebook! We do our best to describe the visuals in the video, so if you are listening to our podcast, you can also go to DISCy Chicks Podcast on Facebook.  Join the DISCy Chicks for the final teaming session for this month. Following a team review of the DISC Behavior and Driving Forces Team Wheel, Cindy and Martha often find two people on a team that...

Send us Fan Mail The Chicks have gone live on Facebook! We do our best to describe the visuals in the video, so if you are listening to our podcast, you can also go to DISCy Chicks Podcast on Facebook. The DISCy Chicks do a recap of the 12 Driving Forces or motivators in preparation for next week's session about the Driving Forces team wheel! Your motivators are your "WHY", or your...

Send us Fan Mail Where would you fall on your team's motivators wheel? The Chicks have gone live on Facebook! We do our best to describe the visuals in the video, so if you are listening to our podcast, you can also go to DISCy Chicks Podcast on Facebook.  Cindy and Martha continue the theme of workplace teaming by sharing the team Driving Forces wheel this week. As a leader, knowing the moti...

Send us Fan Mail The Chicks have gone live on Facebook! We do our best to describe the visuals in the video, so if you are listening to our podcast, you can also go to DISCy Chicks Podcast on Facebook.  Join the DISCy Chicks as they share the DISC teaming tools to help your team improve communications, collaboration, and performance. You and your team learn about their individual DISC profiles, th...

Send us Fan Mail The Chicks have gone live on Facebook! We do our best to describe the visuals in the video, so if you are listening to our podcast, you can also go to DISCy Chicks Podcast on Facebook.  The DISCy Chicks continue the power of DISC behaviors to enable your teams to communicate, collaborate, and perform their best. Cindy and Martha use images to show the behavior style compatibility...

Send us Fan Mail The Chicks have gone live on Facebook! We do our best to describe the visuals in the video, so if you are listening to our podcast, you can also go to DISCy Chicks Podcast on Facebook.  Cindy and Martha talk more about behavior style compatibility for teams this week. The focus is on the "Steady" behavior style and the "Compliant" behavior style. Listen up to l...

Send us Fan Mail The Chicks have gone live on Facebook! We do our best to describe the visuals in the video, so if you are listening to our podcast  and want to see us as we record, visit DISCy Chicks Podcast on Facebook.  The DISCy Chicks turn the DISC graph on its side.  Instead of talking about high and low, we talk about DISC factors on a continuum - right to left.  As humans, we are innately...

Send us Fan Mail If you are a high or low Dominant or a high or low Influencer, what disruptive behaviors might you be revealing, without even knowing it? Our friends at TTI recently published a blog that caught our eye and it was all about behavioral blindspots! The DISCy Chicks will help you become aware of what your potential blindspots are for the  direct communicator (high D) and the reflecti...

Send us Fan Mail If you are a high or low Steady or a high or low Compliant, what disruptive behaviors might you be revealing, without even knowing it? Our friends at TTI recently published a blog that caught our eye and it was all about behavioral blindspots! The DISCy Chicks continue their conversation about the importance of knowing what your potential blindspots are for the steady communicator...