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Send us Fan Mail Listen and learn as the DISCy Chicks discuss a "me/me" conflict. Yep, there is such a thing. We're talking about intrapersonal conflict due to a DISC style that causes inner turmoil for you. Think about it...if your profile is a high dominant and a high compliant, the dominant style drives results, moves at a face pace and gets tasks done as quickly as possible, whi...

Send us Fan Mail The answer is . . . YES!  Any style can be an effective leader if the motivation is there! Listen in and hear about all four DISC styles's strengths and limitations, as it pertains to being an effective leader. The DISCy Chicks talk you through the high and the low styles for the dominant, influence, steady and compliant tendencies. Any leader with any style needs to be keenl...

Send us Fan Mail The DISCy Chicks dive back into the 12 Driving Forces and speak to the impact the pandemic has had on your motivators and what you can do to take care of yourself and your team members. Everyone's motivational profiles are so very different and when you don't get these needs met you can become disenchanted with your work or even in your personal life. Listen and learn ab...

Send us Fan Mail Just when you thought you knew everything!  There are many misconceptions about the DISC assessment and our guest Stacy Axon sets the record straight. The DISCy Chicks welcome Stacy Axon, a business development consultant with TTISI (our assessment vendor) and also an entrepreneur with her own coaching and training business, Aspire and Thrive based out of Arizona.  She shares her...

Send us Fan Mail Last week the DISCy Chicks gave you the low down on using DISC behavior style to communicate up to your boss to get what you need to be successful. This week they cover the same topic, but  using the 12 Driving Forces, or motivators.  Listen in as they discuss 8 of the driving forces and how to use them to connect most effectively with your manager resulting in meeting their needs...

Send us Fan Mail Listen in as DISCY Chicks Cindy and Martha share with you the best way to "communicate up" using DISC behavior styles. If your boss is a high dominant (results driven with a high sense of urgency) you will ask for that raise very differently than if she is a high compliant (detail oriented and analytical)!  These are easy, practical tips for you to have the best relation...

Send us Fan Mail But I've never met this person! Listen up as Cindy and Martha help you interpret DISC styles from emails you receive from your customers, clients, employees and vendors! Yes, each DISC style has a distinct way of showing up in emails. The DISCy Chicks have too much fun sharing what to look out for as well as how to respond in kind to those all important emails. And we had ano...

Send us Fan Mail Subject: Another testimony to the power of DISC Behaviors and Driving Forces This week the DISCy Chicks bring you another guest, Christie Gribble, Executive Director at the Fannin County Development Authority in Blue Ridge, GA. Martha introduced Christie to the assessment solution with her employee Cady to figure out how they could work more effectively and efficiently together. T...

Send us Fan Mail Has COVID fatigue impacted the engagement of your employees? If so, listen as Cindy and Martha share the many ways assessments can unlock employee engagement! Here are the outcomes you can create within your own organization! 1. Communication is the foundation for building trust and engagement. Learning your own communication preferences and how each employee prefers to be communi...

Send us Fan Mail We are delighted to welcome Diane Bogino to the mic for this week's DISCy Chicks Podcast. Little did we know that she has the notoriety of being the original  “Eggplant Parmigiana” Mom. Diane has a unique life story that lead to her eventually becoming a successful entrepreneur and President of Performance Strategies Inc. She is another accomplished practitioner of the DISC s...

Send us Fan Mail We were so happy that Buddy Hull, CEO of The Advisory Board in Atlanta, GA could join us for this DISCy Chicks Podcast! Buddy works with small business owners to improve their overall business performance, which of course includes managing employees and keeping them engaged on the job. He has used the DISC tool for many years and shared with us many client success stories.  Buddy...

Send us Fan Mail Job benchmarking enables successful hiring and onboarding Join the DISCy Chicks now to hear how the job benchmarking process and assessments enable you to select perfect additions to your team! The data the Gap report gives to you makes that difference. Based on the job profile you and your subject matter experts created, a list of behavioral interviewing questions are created in...

Send us Fan Mail Cindy and Martha walk you through the benchmarking process in order to understand the value of two reports you can use to make your best hiring decisions.  The first report is called the gap report, which compares your candidates' assessment results  to the job profile report created from the benchmarking process. The report identifies where your candidate is within the bench...

Send us Fan Mail The DISCy Chicks admit that while DISC is our go-to assessment, we also use a companion assessment  that beautifully complements the DISC behaviors assessment ...the 12 Driving Forces. This assessment measures a person's hidden drivers or what intrinsically motivates a person in life.  Is it pursuit of knowledge, helping others, making money or one of the remaining nine drive...

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 Swim with the DISCy Chicks as we dive into the job benchmarking process. Together we cover step by step the benchmarking process using the DISC Behaviors and Driving Forces assessment. Below are the primary steps of the job benchmarking process:  The Who? Human resources professionals Key executives in the business Hiring Managers Recruiting firms  What roles? High turnover roles...

Send us Fan Mail We are delighted that Josh Hickock, CEO of Work Empowered was able to join us and share some of his career coaching secrets on how to  get noticed and land the perfect job.  Josh spent the first 15 years of his career as an executive recruiter in the banking and finance world. Eventually after years of feeling unfulfilled with that work, he decided to give up selling people on tak...

Send us Fan Mail Avoiding Bad Hires in Your Business The DISCy Chicks understand the pain of miss-hiring! Listen in as they define a bad hire,  why it  happens and the hidden and not so hidden costs of hiring mistakes.  They reveal the collateral damage these mistakes have on your business.  Get the guide "1 assessment used 6 ways in hiring" This week's session is the prelude to upc...

Send us Fan Mail A BIG Welcome 2021, The DISCy Chicks thank you for listening and learning about the DISC Behavior Style Assessment in 2020! They provided a recap of the top 3 most listened to podcasts from last year which were 1. Size Up Your Prospects With DISC , featuring our guest Cynthia Matheny. Cynthia claims that DISC was life changing for her while she was in the real estate business. She...

Send us Fan Mail Learn and Apply DISC Watching Your Favorite TV Shows! 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's behavior using the DISC behavior style...

Send us Fan Mail We all show stress in different ways. Understanding DISC can help you manage your own stress and the stress of your team members at work. Remember, DISC is the science of observable behavior. If you want to better understand your stress and how you impact your staff (for better or worse) tune in as  the DISCy Chicks reveal the primary stressors for each behavior style, how that st...

Send us Fan Mail The DISCy Chicks are excited to present Holly Firestine, Chief People Officer at Ethos Veterinary Health as our  guest this week. Ethos operates a national network of emergency and specialty animal hospitals in 25 locations in the U.S.  Holly’s early business experience was in operations. She gravitated over time to the people side of the business in human resources. She also has...

Send us Fan Mail "For me, the introduction to DISC was life changing!" Cynthia Matheny The DISCy Chicks wrap up their Selling with DISC series with special guest Cynthia Matheny, president and founder of The Inspired Mind. In her early career, Cynthia was exposed to DISC while working in the real estate business.  Her company used DISC in the hiring process for job fit, but Cynthia quick...

Send us Fan Mail Selling is the life blood of any company and COVID has drastically changed the sales environment.  The DISCy Chicks interview CEO of Growth Dynamics and sales training expert Ty Swain. Listen-in, as Ty shares the trends he has encountered transforming sales teams making major adjustments in order to sell through a pandemic. Ty answers questions like "Is in-person cold calling...

Send us Fan Mail September is for Selling!!  The DISCy Chicks look at behavior style matching (BSM) when it comes to sales.  Did you know that each type of sales professional will naturally be able to sell more easily to certain types of prospects.  What about the other types?  You could be leaving money on the table if you don't know how to adjust your approach to different types of prospect...