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Send us Fan Mail Title: Introducing our last guest of 2021 Sheila Lahker We are finishing off the year with Sheila T, founder of Lu Solutions/Guided Success For Entrepreneurs.  She has been using DISC in her consulting and executive search business for over 20 years! She shares her success stories using DISC to enable successful communication skills as a leader operating in the hybrid work environ...

Send us Fan Mail  Do Yourself a favor...listen and learn from our guest Favor Larson We are delighted to have Favor Larson, Training and Certification Manager at TTISI as our guest this week. She has been working for our favorite assessment vendor TTISI for 15 years and her knowledge of their assessment products is deep and wide! She shares her own profile and where she thinks her environment grow...

Send us Fan Mail Cindy and Martha are thrilled to introduce you to a colleague of ours, Kelly Frager! She started her career after her corporate role in Talent Development selling "etiquette training" for youth that quickly grew to etiquette for adults as well. She has expanded her own business to working with businesses to "optimize the power of people"!  Listen and learn as K...

Send us Fan Mail Cindy and Martha are excited to introduce our expert guest, Tom Bogart, Senior Solutions Consultant for TTISI (our assessment partner)! He has been our "go to" person for many years because he has such positive energy, patience and knowledge when we get stuck about our assessment reports! Learn how his DISC scores and his top drivers make him a perfect solutions consulta...

Send us Fan Mail The DISCy Chicks welcome Karen Nutter to the podcast to share her rags to riches story with you! Karen started her own business in 2008 and the DISC suite of assessments is at the center of what she does as a business coach and consultant. She has authored two books, Finding Contentment in a Chaotic World and The Power of EQ . Listen to Karen's animated delivery of her own st...

Send us Fan Mail Join the DISCy Chicks as they honor our veterans by interviewing members of Team Foar From Home, a team of four military veterans  will be rowing 3000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean. They are using this platform and community to raise awareness and make an impact on the veteran PTSD and suicide statistics in the U.S.  Cindy has been coaching this courageous team of veterans in pr...

Send us Fan Mail The Chicks, Cindy and Martha, are excited to have Pam as our guest this week. She has an interesting background in the technology world in sales and marketing that eventually lead to her becoming an entrepreneur and business owner. A gifted communicator, Pam helps IT and STEM professionals communicate their ideas and show their value to the organization. Pam has several areas of e...

Send us Fan Mail Listen and learn as the DISCy Chicks walk you through the differences in how that high influence style shows up and how the low influence style shows up! That high influencer is an "outgoing" communicator and the low influencer is a "reserved" communicator. We discuss the attributes of the two ends of the behavioral continuum, both their superpowers and their k...

Send us Fan Mail Show notes:  Title - Welcome Sunny Dellinger with the Better Business Bureau of Metro Atlanta Sunny is the Director, Administrative Services with the BBB. Cindy has been working with Sunny to train all of their employees in DISC Behaviors and Driving Forces during the pandemic. Listen as Sunny shares how they have invested in their employees with this training to learn about thems...

Send us Fan Mail DISC Behaviors assessment measures how you show up and the Driving Forces (your motivators) measure why you do what you do. So how do each of the behavior styles demonstrate their primary Driving Forces?  Listen up as the DISCy Chicks walk you through six of the Driving forces through the eyes of the dominant, influence, steady and compliant styles. Yes, they are all distinctly di...

Send us Fan Mail The DISCy Chicks re-introduce Driving Forces to demonstrate the power of speaking to your employees' primary motivators. What does this mean? When your employees exceed your expectations on projects or unexpected crises, you want to immediately reinforce these results. Using the language of their primary driving forces is a powerful tool to accomplish this! Cindy and Martha g...

Send us Fan Mail The DISCy Chicks wrap up this four part series tailor made for those of you with a high compliant behavior style! How do you get along with a high dominant, influence, steady and another high compliant? We take you through the behavior style match score and share tips of how you can best get along with all the styles that are different from your own. If you are in sales, no worrie...

Send us Fan Mail Cindy and Martha continue the Playbook series...this time for the "steady" behavior style or High S. Listen and learn about the behavior style match between the steady style and the dominant, the influence and the compliant styles! How boring would it be if we all behaved exactly the same?? All four styles are unique and get along with each other differently, which is a...

Send us Fan Mail This week's podcast takes on the high influence style as it applies to how they get along with styles different from them! What is their behavior style match with the other three predominant styles ?   With their fast pace, gregarious, fun way of being, the other three styles have very different responses to the high influence behavior style. Remember we all adapt our behavio...

Send us Fan Mail The DISCy Chicks break down the dominant style as it applies to how they get along with styles different from them! We refer to this as behavior style matching or BSM. With their fast pace, decisive, results oriented ways, the other three styles have very different responses to the dominant behavior style. Remember we all adapt our behavior style at work to fit the job we are in a...

Send us Fan Mail Did you know each primary DISC style has a primary emotion?  Cindy and Martha will deepen your knowledge on the emotions for each DISC style in this episode of the DISCy Chicks! Yes, emotions are one of the most observable behaviors of DISC. The more important thing that they reveal is what is the "fear" behind each of these four emotions are.  As leaders, you will get t...

Send us Fan Mail How to read others' nonverbal behaviors using your own power of observation The DISCy Chicks share tips on observing the behavior of others at work or out in the community  to identify their predominant style. Take a few notes so you can test the recommendations shared in this podcast today at your next Zoom meeting or at the grocery store line. You'll learn to pay atten...

Send us Fan Mail The DISCy Chicks give you more to chew on as we dish out the details of the powerful strengths that EACH style brings to a team.  You will  discover how and why having all four styles on your team creates a rich environment for diverse thought for effective problem solving and decision making. For example, all four styles, the dominant, influence, steady and compliant behavior sty...

Send us Fan Mail We're BACK from our summer break and ready to help you as employees begin reporting back into the office! Listen in as the DISCy Chicks talk about the "re-boarding" process ... what it is and why it's important to get it right. The Chicks have been helping their clients re-orient and re-engage their employees to return to the office. Some are excited to go back...

Send us Fan Mail The benefits of using the DISC assessment isn't just for businesses.  More and more DISC is entering the wide world of sports for  coaches and their players. Listen up as the DISCy Chicks interview a special guest, Shailen Johnson, the Director of Training and Development for a business named Profile. Team.  The company utilizes DISC along with a few other assessments in the...

Send us Fan Mail Cindy and Martha continue the conversation about the last three Driving Force Domains of people, power and methodology. You'll learn the strengths of each motivator and those things to be more self-aware of that can negatively affect how you lead. So, the answer to the question again is yes...you can be very effective with any combination of the 12 Driving Forces! May the &qu...

Send us Fan Mail The DISCy Chicks hear this question quite often from their clients. Listen and learn as Cindy and Martha talk you through the first six driving forces in the context of leading others. You'll learn the strengths of each motivator and things to be mindful of that can negatively affect how you lead. So, the answer to the question is yes...you can be very effective with any comb...

Send us Fan Mail Listen to Adrienne's real life story about her me-me conflict To wrap up the month of May's DISC behavior me-me conflict topic, the DISCy Chicks have a special guest, Adrienne Johnston, owner of her own presentation design business. She has the DISC pattern of a high influence and high compliance, which certainly creates internal conflict for her on a regular basis! List...

Send us Fan Mail Listen up as the DISCy Chicks talk about the last DISC behavior "me-me" conflict behavior pattern...the Dominant & Steady primary style combination!  Cindy and Martha rarely see this pattern in their coaching and consulting practices which is why they agreed this is the true unicorn profile out of the three patterns they have discussed this month!  Think about it...t...

Send us Fan Mail Cindy and Martha continue the conversation about intrapersonal or Me-Me  conflict for those of you that have the influence and compliant behavior style combination. The high influence style is all about relationships, being affirmed and influencing others, while the compliant style is all about data, information and seeking quality or better put perfection in their work. The other...