Happy New Year!

Resources Unlimited will be closed on January 1st and will return January 2nd.

We are excited to work with you and meet your needs in 2015. Have a Happy New Year!

Happy Holidays!

The Resources Unlimited staff would like to wish you a Happy Holidays! 

Our office will be closing at 12:00 CT on Wednesday, December 24th and closed the 25th and 26th.We will be back on Monday, December 29th to fill any orders other than the EPIC credit orders, which will continue to be filled as timely as possible. Until then, we hope you have a great holiday season with your family and friends. We look forward to hearing from you!

Increase Sales in 2015!

Are you looking to increase your company's sales? As a sales executive, this should be your goal. To reach the company's sales goal, your sales team will need to adjust their sales approach to meet the buy style of each client.  Not every customer will respond well to the same sales approach. Sales executives who adapt their behavior will be able to increase sales by meeting their customer's needs.

Learn about your individual sales style, your customer’s buy style, and how to adapt to your customer's buy style by taking The Everything DiSC Sales Profile. This profile will increase sales

effectiveness, close more business, and increase sales within your organization!

Take the EverythingDiSC Sales Profile to improve results in 2015! Contact info@resourcesunlimited.com or +1.515.278.1292 with any questions.

Want to learn more about the Five Behaviors? Join a free, live seminar, presented by Julie Straw, Vice President of Wiley Workplace Learning Solutions. Julie will give an overview of the Five Behaviors model, key insights, real-life examples of companies who have used the Five Behaviors and Patrick Lencioni's, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team book!

There are two seminars left for 2014, being held in Toronto and New York. Sign up today! If you have any questions about the Five Behaviors, contact +1.515.278.1292 or message info@resourcesunlimited.com. 

Be sure to check back in 2015 for more seminars coming to your area!

Closed Thursday and Friday

Just a reminder that we will be closed for Thanksgiving and also on Friday.

EPIC credit orders will continue to be filled on Friday. We understand your needs and will meet them as timely as possible. All other orders will be filled on Monday when we return

Have a Happy Thanksgiving!

New! Everything DiSC Certification - Des Moines

We recently added Des Moines to our training calendar for 2015 Everything DiSC Certification! Being certified is a great tool for teaching effective communication and team building. Join us April 15-16, 2015! 

Contact info@resourcesunlimited.com or call 515-278-1292 if you have any questions.

Closing soon: DiSC certification in Minneapolis, Dec. 9-10

Please note that the registration window for the next DiSC trainer certification, Dec. 9-10 in Minneapolis, is closing soon. To register, or for a list of other upcoming dates and locations, see our DiSC certification page.

Time Mastery

Does your team encounter issues with time management?

The Time Mastery Profile is an excellent tool that will enhance your employee’s time management. If you could reduce your staff's wasted time by just five minutes each hour, productivity would jump 8.3 percent. Efficiency levels would also rise as employees devoted more time to completing critical tasks. By taking the Time Mastery Profile, your team will become more efficient and timely.

Check out the Time Mastery Profile today for $25.50!

Featured Product of the Month: Personal Listening

Does your team have communication barriers due to lack of listening?

The Personal Listening products are great tools that improve employee listening skills. Organizations use the Personal Listening Profile to enhance communication, reduce conflict, boost productivity, and strengthen customer relationships. The profile offers highly personalized feedback, plus specific, actionable suggestions for how you communicate and listen to your team members.

Try the Personal Listening Profile today for $39.50 or contact us if you have an EPIC account!

Closing soon: Minneapolis DiSC certification (Oct. 28-29)

Only a few more days to register for the next DiSC train-the-trainer certification: Oct. 28-29 in Minneapolis.

Future certifications include New York (Oct. 29-30), Atlanta (Nov. 11-12), San Francisco (Nov. 18-19), and Minneapolis (Dec. 9-10). To register for Minneapolis or another certification, see our DiSC certification calendar.

Reminder: the September DiSC online specialization is closing soon

PSA: the next DiSC online certification is filling up quickly. If you plan to join the September class, we'd encourage you to register soon. The first webinar is the week of September 8.

Leadership Challenge beta test: the final stretch

Want to participate in the Leadership Challenge LPI beta test? There's still time - but you need to hurry! We're trying to collect all feedback by Friday, September 5, which is barely three weeks away.

If you haven't yet scheduled your Leadership Challenge workshop, there's no time to dawdle. Give us a call at 515.278.1292, or drop us a line, and we'll help you get organized.

Why Do You Take Personality Tests?

NBC has a fluff piece on personality testing. It's a surprisingly respectable taxonomy, actually, despite the overall clickbait vibe. A piece of brain candy at the end of the day.

New DiSC certifications: Atlanta, New York, San Francisco, and Seattle

We recently added several new cities to our DiSC certification calendar. The autumn training calendar now includes:

• Sept. 16-17: Minneapolis
• Oct. 6-7: Dallas
• Oct. 15-16: Seattle
• Oct. 28-29: Minneapolis
• Oct. 29-30: New York
• Nov. 11-12: Atlanta
• Nov. 18-19: San Francisco
• Dec. 9-10: Minneapolis

For further details, or to register, see our DiSC certification page. Registration includes more than $1400 in DiSC training materials, including an EPIC account, the facilitation kit of your choice, and several individual and group DiSC reports.

New Translation: DiSC Workplace in French

Exciting news: the DiSC Workplace profile is now available in French!

The French DiSC Workplace profile is a welcome addition to our Everything DiSC family. Also available are French comparison reports, a French facilitation kit, and various brochures and reports.

This brings the Workplace translation tally to eight languages: Danish, English, Finnish, French, German, Norwegian, Spanish, and Swedish. If you'd like to have DiSC Workplace in French (or, for that matter, any other language), give us a call at 515.278.1292 and we'll add it to your EPIC account.

New beta test: the Leadership Challenge

Want to beta test a new assessment for Kouzes and Posner's Leadership Challenge? Let us know!

The next-generation Leadership Challenge LPI is currently in beta. We'd like to invite our EPIC users to play around with the profile and let us know what you think. As a pre-release product, the Leadership Challenge assessment available at no cost; we simply want your feedback.

Email us or call 515.278.1202, and we'll add the Leadership Challenge assessment to your EPIC account. 

DiSC Workplace Online Specialization

The brand-new DiSC Workplace Online Specialization is here!

The Online Specialization program is DiSC certification with a twist: a hybrid classroom/online certification. The course is designed for DiSC practitioners who want the camaraderie of live, classroom training plus the convenience and flexibility of online learning.

The course is taught as a single cohort of 20 participants. The cohort meets four times in an online classroom for weekly, 90-minute classes. These classes are live, instructor-led workshops with small-group breakout sessions, so attendance is mandatory. The instructor will assign individual pre-work and post-work for each workshop, which the participant completes at his/her convenience. The total time commitment is 12-20 hours over the course of four weeks.

Registration includes a wealth of DiSC training materials: a DiSC Workplace facilitation kit, an EPIC account, and DiSC Workplace profile.

 The inaugural Workplace Specialization course begins on September 8. To register, or for course dates and other information, see our DiSC Online Specialization page.

Last chance: DiSC certification in San Diego (August 6-7)

Friendly reminder: today is the last day to register for our upcoming DiSC certification in San Diego, August 6-7.

Certification is an optional credential for trainers and consultants who want to fully immerse themselves in the theory and application of DiSC. The two-day certification program provides a rich, in-depth learning experience. DiSC certification also includes a DiSC facilitator kit (with official PowerPoint slides, video clips, scripted leader's guide, suggested exercises, handouts, and more), an EPIC account for administering a DiSC training program, and several individual and group DiSC assessments and reports.

Other upcoming certifications include:

• Sept. 16-17 (Minneapolis)
• Oct. 6-7 (Dallas)
• Oct. 28-29 (Minneapolis)

See our complete DiSC certification schedule for all dates and locations

Closing soon: DiSC certification in Chicago (July 23-24)

Friendly reminder: our upcoming DiSC certification in Chicago is just around the corner. Registration closes this Friday, July 11, and the course dates are July 23-24.

During this two-day program, participants will learn to speak DiSC fluently and will become fully comfortable in delivering DiSC workshops. Furthermore, registration includes more than $1200 in training materials: a free DiSC facilitation kit, a free EPIC account, and a free DiSC Workplace profile.

See our classroom certification page for other certification dates and locations.

Updated DiSC Sales profile

Great news - the updated DiSC Sales profile is here! The new version has been updated with adaptive testing, an advanced scoring algorithm that is more robust and precise than ever.

Gone is the fixed, 79-question Sales profile. Instead, the profile now asks a variable number of questions, which depend on the respondent's previous answers. In other words, the profile learns from the initial responses and adapts itself accordingly.

Why is this useful? Because it enables the Sales profile to hone in on areas of ambiguity or inconsistency and more thoroughly explore a particular aspect of the respondent's behavior. This leads to more accurate results. Alternatively, if a respondent demonstrates little ambiguity or inconsistency, the profile needs fewer questions to compile the results - which saves time for the respondent. Either way, it's a better outcome!

You'll notice that updated profile includes slightly different graphics and images, and we recommend that you update your DiSC Sales facilitation kit to reflect the new version of the assessment. To update your kit, just give us a call at 515.278.1292 and we'll take care of it. The update is free through July 30; afterwards, it costs $49.

For more information about adaptive testing, feel free to read our adaptive testing research report.

Reminder: DiSC certification in Chicago, July 23-24

PSA: Our next DiSC certification, July 23-24 in Chicago, is nearly full, but we do have a few spots available. Register online via our DiSC certification page. As a reminder, certification includes the DiSC facilitation kit of your choice, an EPIC account, and the DiSC profile of your choice.

Other upcoming dates and locations include:

• August 5-6 in Minneapolis
• August 6-7 in San Diego
• September 16-17 in Minneapolis
• October 28-29 in Minneapolis
• December 9-10 in Minneapolis