DiSC Reinforcement Tips

Research conducted by Olivero, Bane, and Kopelman found that “Training increased productivity of 22.4%. In contrast, training plus coaching increased productivity by 88%”

As you can see in the statistic above, training alone is effective but when you add in additional coaching, the results are tremendous.  As a facilitator you may often think to yourself about the “what’s next” after a training session.  What can you do to ensure what you taught sticks with the attendees and they use it as a part of their work environment.  You want to keep people excited about DiSC and continuously see the benefits. 

Below you will find some suggestions that we would like to offer to you that you can use in your organization to reinforce DiSC long after the session has wrapped up.

Learning Events

·         Lunch and Learn Series

·         Refresher Series

·         Videos for People Reading or Communication

·         Panel Discussions

·         Game Shows – Team Challenges

·         Create a DiSC Trivia Game

·         Webinars

·         Team Meetings or Debriefings

·         Webinars and Online Learning Courses

DiSC Tools

·         Comparison Reports

·         Group Culture Reports

·         Quick DiSC Cards

·         DiSC In Depth Cards

·         Workplace Style Guides

·         Workplace Interaction Guides (also available to for Classic, Sales, and Management)

·         Team Maps – Focus on Priorities

·         Action Plans

·         DiSC Profiles

Miscellaneous Commitments

·         Appoint “DiSC Champions”

·         Create Learning Partners

·         Mentor – Mentee Programs

·         On-boarding

·         Celebrations – Roaming DiSC Reports complete with cameras

·         DiSC Bulletin Boards – Tips, Cartoons, “Spotlight” People or Teams

·         DiSC Detectives

·         Email Campaigns

·         Share Ideas and Tips

·         Share Challenges / Success Stories

·         Puzzles (www.puzzlemaker.com) and Wuzzles

·         “DiSC bytes”

·         Case Studies

·         Develop the “Use DiSC 10 minutes a day” philosophy

If you have any questions about how to integrate these suggestions into your organization or would like more information about the products suggested, please contact our office at 515.278.1292 or by email!

DiSC Happenings at Resources Unlimited

We have had another busy week and even month at Resources Unlimited and we couldn’t be more excited!  As an overview of our February, here are just a few happenings. 

We love when our clients share success stories of DiSC whether they are new to the DiSC world or are veteran users.  This week we had another group of great trainers become DiSC Certified in Minneapolis, Minnesota. 

If you are interested in learning more about DiSC certification options, please contact our office at 515.278.1292 or send us an email today!

Also this week, we had our webinar for trainers that we discussed training exercises that you can use within your organization to help DiSC stick using a variety of techniques.  Do you have a activity that is your go to for training sessions, we would love to hear about it!  We like to post activities is our blog for our followers to use! 

We recently completed an in-house session for a new client on the Everything DiSC Workplace Profile helping their human resources department better understand and use DiSC so they can filter it out into their workplace with a variety of groups within their organization!

As we posted in an earlier blog, we are now offering an online video training library with hours of vignettes that can be easily embedded into current training sessions for added value or use one of the full length sessions for your group.  Each video comes with the training material for you and your participants.  For a free 30-day preview, please visit our Training Resources Library and click “create an account now.”

Do you want to be a part of one of our beta tests? We are currently looking for individuals or teams to participate in our Innovative Teams or Everything DiSC Workplace Spanish Beta.  To participate, please send us an email and we will let you know next steps!

We appreciate our clients everyday and the greatest compliment we can receive is the referral to your friends and colleagues.  It is because of your, our clients, that we provide the resources that we do to ensure success!  

What is DiSC?

I have decided to go back to the basics and look at, what is DiSC? Where has this model that has become so widely known with consultants, human resource departments, and large companies and small businesses looking to get the most of their employees?   I find that there are many things that are just accepted measures and you may not know the history.  Let’s take a moment to think – have you ever thought of how plants grow, why is the sky blue, or maybe, how one of the best known does and widely used DiSC assessments come to be and stay relevant for so many years.

It is my goal to shed a little light on what DiSC is and how it came to be.  DiSC is a model of human behavior that helps people understand “why they do what they do.”

Before I continue on, can you name what the acronym “DiSC” stands for?  You will find the answers below, so keep reading.

Originally created by Dr. William Marston at Columbia University and researched and updated by Dr. John Geier and Inscape Publishing at the University of Minnesota, the DiSC model and its training assessments have helped over 35 million people in 25+ languages over the last 40 years.

DiSC is a nonjudgmental language for exploring issues across 4 primary DiSC dimensions of behavior:

• Dominance: Direct & Decisive. D's are strong-willed, strong-minded people who like accepting challenges, taking action, and getting immediate results
• influence: Optimistic & Outgoing. I's are "people people" who like participating on teams, sharing ideas, and energizing and entertaining others
• Steadiness: Sympathetic & Cooperative. S's are helpful people who like working behind the scenes, performing in consistent and predictable ways, and are good listeners
• Conscientiousness: Concerned & Correct. C's value quality and like planning ahead, employing systematic approaches, and checking and re-checking for accuracy

For more history on DiSC, click here or send me an email at info@resourcesunlimited.com for information on how to use DiSC. 

Simplify Your DiSC Training with an EPIC Account

Today marks the official start of summer, and fall will be here before you know it!

A cost-effective way to prepare for your Q3 & Q4 DiSC training and coaching sessions is to get up and running with an online EPIC Account.

EPIC is the simplest way to deliver the newest and most advanced online DiSC assessments. The secure, web-based system scores and generates DiSC Profiles instantly, and offers you total control.

EPIC users love the convenience and time-saving benefits:

1) EPIC saves time and gives you 24/7 access. Profiles are scored instantly for you and reports are generated and printed in a few clicks. You can have your employees complete their DiSC assessments in advance so training time is used to its full advantage.

Click to read more of the benefits of EPIC.

DiSC Phone Coaching Sessions

Our personalized DiSC phone coaching sessions are customized to address your specific organizational objectives. One-on-one DiSC phone coaching will provide you with the assistance you need to design an effective DiSC training program, and will strengthen your investment in DiSC learning assessments.

DiSC phone coaching will give you the opportunity to speak one-on-one with one of our DiSC Certified Master Trainers with 20+ years of DiSC training experience.

DiSC phone coaching is available in one-hour sessions.

Whether you are a first-time user of DiSC learning assessments and need more in-depth information to learn how to interpret your results and incorporate the DiSC profile into your organization, or a DiSC trainer looking for additional DiSC activities, our DiSC Master Trainers will give you the information and confidence you need to achieve your organization’s learning objectives.

Our DiSC clients use DiSC phone coaching to take advantage of:

• A professional opinion to learn the best way to achieve your training goals
• A sounding board for your training ideas, which will ensure you are using the most effective DiSC exercises
• An experienced trainer to coach you during and after your purchase of DiSC assessments to ensure you use them most effectively

After your DiSC phone coaching session you'll feel better prepared to integrate DiSC learning assessments into your organization, and will have the information necessary to carry out your next steps.

Call 515.278.1292 for DiSC phone coaching information.

New Tutorial: Use the DiSC Role Behavior Analysis to Identify Job Fit

You can now view a movie tutorial about the DiSC Role Behavior Analysis on our website. Just click "DiSC Role Behavior Analysis Tutorial" at the top of the page.

By viewing the tutorial, you will learn:

• What is the DiSC Role Behavior Analysis Profile
• When to use the DiSC Role Behavior Analysis
• The What of the Job
• The How of the Job
• Explanation of the Button, Banner and Brochure ideal
• Conflicting Role Expectations
• How to use the DiSC Role Behavior Analysis
• Your Position and Roles Within
• Examples of Roles in a Position
• What you should do before responding
• After responding - what is learned
• Matching Style and Role Expectation
• Conflicting expectations
• Consensus Role Behavior Analysis Process

The DiSC Role Behavior Analysis was designed to identify role fit, identify training and development needs, and create a plan for stretching and redirecting for a better fit. This DiSC-based assessment is available in both online and paper formats. To compare results to the DiSC General Characteristics profile, the online format is required.

Questions? Call our DiSC Experts at 800.278.1292.

Choosing the DiSC Facilitator Report and/or DiSC Group Culture Report

Would you like to compile the DiSC results of your team?

Inscape Publishing has developed two DiSC Group Reports to help you analyze your team. These reports can be created after two or more people have completed the DiSC Classic 2.0 Online Report or the DiSC General Characteristics Online Report. Use the contents below to determine which report best suits the purpose of your upcoming DiSC session.

DiSC Group Culture Report

The DiSC Group Culture Report was developed to help you explore the DiSC style, or culture, of a group. Once you know the culture — its characteristics, advantages, and drawbacks — you're better prepared to open meaningful discussions with group members in a group setting or one-on-one.

The DiSC Group Culture Report provides a breakdown of your group members by DiSC style and Classical Pattern distribution, advantages and drawbacks of the culture in your group, and other issues to consider.

Unique Characteristics:

• The DiSC Group Culture Report was designed for beginner DiSC learners.
• This DiSC report does not include participant names, which allows for a safe jumping-off point to discuss your group’s culture.

DiSC Facilitator Report

The DiSC Facilitator Report is designed to help you better understand the diversity of interpersonal styles within your group so that you can help participants use their DiSC knowledge most effectively. The DiSC Facilitator Report provides a composite of your group's DiSC styles, allowing you to quickly and easily build customized group reports using data from DiSC Classic 2.0 or DiSC General Characteristics.

The DiSC Facilitator Report helps you identify the DiSC styles of both individual group members and the group itself.

Unique Characteristics:

• The DiSC Facilitator Report was designed with the DiSC Trainer in mind. Language style and report contents are written for someone who is more familiar with DiSC.
• This DiSC report includes names and each group members' DiSC Graph to help you facilitate your DiSC training session.
• This report allows you to compare your group distribution in the four styles against the general population.

When to Use DiSC Group Reports:

• When your focus is team development
• When you want to see the similarities and differences of group members' styles
• When you want to improve the group's understanding of each other, address conflicts in the group, or examine the group culture
• When you want to help group members understand how they fit into the culture of the group

Note: The DiSC Group Reports can include an unlimited number of participants.

Send DiSC Profiles Online with an EPIC Account

If you are seeking a convenient, easy way to manage your DiSC Profile training and coaching, an EPIC Account is a great solution!

EPIC (Electronic Profile Information Center) is an online platform that provides a simple way to deliver our most advanced online learning instruments via the Internet.

EPIC Gives You More Options!

• Choose from over 40 profiles and group reports (including DiSC, listening, time management, team building, sales, management, and customer service focused assessments) within your EPIC Account.
• Send profiles in English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Chinese, etc.
• Choose the report options you want: whether or not you would like the participant to view his/her own report, if you would like to include all graphs, the response style, etc.
• Customize the DiSC Profile notifications by including deadlines, seminar information, etc.

3 Key Benefits of Administering DiSC and other Learning Assessments via EPIC:

• Increased Productivity. The EPIC system takes care of scoring the profiles, saving time and increasing accuracy. You can quickly determine whether the participants have completed the assessment.
• Gain Administrative Control. You can issue profiles to anyone in the world via email, making the platform ideal for the needs of multi-location businesses. You can view, print, or email completed reports, as the system maintains an archive of completed profiles.
• Offer Enhanced Report Options. EPIC gives organizations the capability to build group reports from data stored in the system, providing an analysis of team dynamics. As teams change, new group reports can be generated from existing data, adding new understanding without requiring more training time.

Want to learn more? Call our EPIC Account experts at 800.278.1292, or visit the Resources Unlimited Website.

DiSC Paper Profiles vs. DiSC Online Profiles

If you are interested in using the DiSC Profile within your organization, there is one basic thought to consider: would you like participants to complete the DiSC Paper Profile or the DiSC Online Profile? Both will get you to the same destinations (enhanced communication, conflict resolution, better teams, etc), but there are a few main differences. Once you understand the differences and similarities, you can more easily choose the best profile for your situation.

The DiSC Classic Paper Profile

This is the original DiSC Profile. As a self-scoring assessment, the DiSC Paper Profile will take approximately 30 minutes to complete the questionnaire portion and score the graphs. Make sure your training session is long enough to accommodate this.

Also keep in mind that the DiSC Paper Profiles will need to be shipped to you (we can send your profiles via Next Day or Second Day Air if you are in a bind).

DiSC Paper Profile sections include:

• DiSC Graphs I, II, and III
• General highlights of each DiSC style
• Intensity Index
• All DiSC Classic Profile Patterns

Choose the DiSC Classic Paper Profile when:

• The Internet is not readily accessible to your participants
• You only want standard descriptions of DiSC styles and patterns
• Trust is low among your participants, to give them more control over their DiSC reports
• You want to show your participants how their DiSC scores are derived

DiSC Classic 2.0 Online Profile

The online DiSC profile can be sent to you 30 minutes after we receive your order during regular business hours. The DiSC Online Profile is sent via email to you or directly to your participants. The questionnaire is completed online, and the results are calculated electronically for you. As a trainer, you can control whether or not the participant can view his/her own results. Many of our clients choose to print the DiSC reports out themselves and bring them to the training session.

The DiSC Classic 2.0 includes many enhancements. For example, you have the ability to add supplemental reports, which will provide more information on the participant's behavior in a sales, team, or management environment.

Plus, you can easily manage your DiSC Online Profiles with an EPIC Account.

DiSC Online Profile sections include:

• DiSC Graph
• Explanation of your highest DiSC style(s)
• Intensity Index
• Interpretation of each highlighted word in your Intensity Index
• Your narrative DiSC Classical Profile Pattern (Your Motivation, Your Work Habits, and Insights for You)
• The DiSC model
• General highlights of each DiSC style
• All DiSC Classic Profile Patterns

Choose the DiSC 2.0 Online Profile when:

• The Internet is readily accessible to your participants
• You want personalized descriptions of each participant's DiSC style and pattern in addition to standard descriptions
• You want a pool of descriptive words that are positive in tone
• You want to see the participant reports before the training
• You do not have enough time to administer the DiSC profile during training

Our DiSC Experts are available to help you determine which assessment is best for you. Feel free to call our office at 800.278.1292.

Six Examples of Assessments that Will Help You Develop and Retain Talent

Inscape Publishing offers a vast variety of learning assessments that will help you identify and develop your employees. Use assessments not only in the pre-hiring process, but throughout the employees' career with your organization. The DiSC profile, our most popular training assessment, can be used alone or with a combination of other tools to create a more successful organization. For example:

• Learn the corporate culture with the DiSC Group Culture Report
• Build effective teams with the DiSC Plus for Teams Report and Team Dimensions Profile
• Ensure a good job fit by comparing your candidate to the role with the DiSC Role Behavioral Analysis
• Identify your employees' career preferences and expectations with the DiSC Profile and Work Expectations assessments
• Determine your employees' leadership style by combining DiSC with the Dimensions of Leadership Profile
• Help sales become more effective with the DiSC Plus for Sales Report

For more ideas, view a complete list of the online Inscape Publishing profiles that are currently available, at: http://www.resourcesunlimited.com/EPIC_Product_List.asp. Want to discuss your options in more detail? Call our DiSC experts at 800.278.1292.

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Inscape Publishing's idXready Training Programs

Choose from 6 idXready Training Programs

• DiSC-Powered Selling - utilizes the DiSC Profile
• Frontline Management - utilizes the DiSC Profile
• Reducing Team Conflict - utilizes the DiSC Profile
• Capitalizing on Team Talents - utilizes the Team Dimensions / Team Talents Profile
• Collaborative Skills for Teams - utilizes the Team Dimensions / Team Talents Profile
• Improving Your Listening Skills - utilizes the Personal Listening Profile

Using the DiSC Profile for Hiring

An article by Management-Issues says that assessments are a vital part of the hiring process:

The development of talent pools, active communication with prospects and personality assessments were also vital in this tough, competitive market.

Employers who did not follow this advice would pay a high price, the compant warned, with the cost of turnover at 1.5 times that of salary and some companies reporting a six-fold expenditure above salary when hidden costs such as "chain reaction" turnover and lost productivity are factored in."

Full article: http://www.management-issues.com/2006/9/28/research/younger-workers-benefit-from-departure-of-baby-boomers.asp

The DiSC Profile is commonly used by our clients for hiring purposes. The online DiSC assessment has made this even easier because HR professionals can send the DiSC assessment to a candidate's email address. The candidate typically fills out the DiSC profile before or after the interview. Then, the HR professional can view the candidate's behavioral style and make comparisons to the position.

Recommended DiSC Tools to Use:

• DiSC General Characteristics: is an in-depth personal behavior assessment. By administering the General Characteristics Report to potential employees, you will obtain a broad range of the individual’s behavioral characteristics, including behavioral strengths and weaknesses, motivating and demotivating factors, and management and selling styles.
• DiSC Role Behavior Analysis: allows you to profile the job or role, and tells you how the role needs to be performed regardless of who is performing the role. Depending on your priorities, you can profile a part of a job, such as coach, as part of a broader role of manager, or complete the assessment for the role of manager.
• DiSC Comparison Reports: Assesses how well the participant’s behaviors match the requirements of the role.

For more information on how to use these 3 assessments, visit our website at: http://www.resourcesunlimited.com/shop/DiSC_for_Hiring_Reports.asp

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Featured DiSC Training Exercise with QuikDiSC Cards

Appreciating Strengths Exercise: Refer to Insight Module 5-2 in the Everything DiSC Facilitation System

When to use this exercise: At the end of a DiSC Training Session or in a follow-up session.

Purpose of the Exercise: To provide DiSC-based feedback between workshop participants. This exercise gives the learners an opportunity to learn what DiSC behaviors they have displayed during the training. This exercise is particularly valuable because it enables participants to learn whether others perceive their DiSC style to be similar to one’s own self-perception.

Directions:

1. Place one deck of QuikDiSC cards in the center of each table group (face up).
2. Ask each participant to select one card for each participant at the table. The card selected for each participant describes the behavior exhibited by that participant during the training session. (For example, “expressive.”)
3. Each participant at the table explains why the selected card (e.g., “expressive”) represents the person.

More about the QuikDiSC Cards: Visit http://www.resourcesunlimited.com/shop/QuikDiSC.asp

Questions for DiSC Trainers:

• Have you used this exercise in your DiSC Training session?
• Did you modify any part of the exercise?
• How would you modify this exercise for a particular group?

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DiSC for Team Building

Everyone has a unique way of doing things. Each person has different motivators, preferences, and needs. DiSC will help teams understand these differences and help teams work better together.

With the recent introduction of the DiSC Plus Reports for Team Building, the DiSC Group Culture Report, and the Everything DiSC Facilitation System, DiSC is the only system you need to increase your team's motivation, communication skills, and ability to resolve conflict.

The DiSC materials you choose depend on your objective. If your team members want a basic understanding of themselves and how each person works with others, we recommend taking the DiSC Classic 2.0 Online Profile with the DiSC Plus Reports for Team Building. With this, you get the DiSC Classic Report, plus 2 supplemental reports: Relating to People and Environment and Strategies for Creating a Positive Relationship. View a sample. This will give you an undertaking of how you tend to manage time, how you handle stress, how you solve problems, and how others can:

• communicate with you
• compliment you
• provide feedback to you
• deal with your problem-solving style

After each team member completes the DiSC Online Profile and DiSC Plus Reports for Team Building, you can compile a DiSC Group Culture Report. The DiSC Group Culture Report helps you answer these questions:

• What is the DiSC style of a group?
• What are the advantages and disadvantages of the group culture?
• How does the group culture affect members with different DiSC styles?
• How does the group culture influence decision making?
• How does it affect risk taking?
• What types of behaviors are valued?
• What behaviors are not valued?

Some of our clients choose to run several DiSC Group Culture Reports for each group depending on how the group splits up projects.

If you are using DiSC for Team Building applications in your training sessions, the Everything DiSC Facilitation System has some great course outlines. Including Improving Team Effectiveness (Full-Day), Improving Team Motivation (Half-Day), and Team Effectiveness Series (Three Half-Day Sessions). The outlines break your training sessions into an average of 1-hour segments each and show you which assessments to use, which part of the Everything DiSC DVD to use, and even provides a full script of what to say.

What materials or exercises do you use for team building applications?

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The 3 Families of DiSC

DiSC Classic
The DiSC Classic Profile is the original and most widely known DiSC assessment. It has been used for over 30 years and taken by over 40 million people worldwide. The DiSC Model is related to how you interact with your environment. Do you see the environment as favorable or unfavorable? Do you see yourself as more or less powerful than your environment?

If you are planning to use DiSC profiles for your DiSC training seminar, you will want to choose the DiSC Classic Profile when individuals want to gain an understanding of self and others. Are your clients/employees asking "Why do I behave or respond the way that I do?" or "Why do I feel different from others in my group?" or "What can I do to better understand my co-workers?"

DiSC Classic helps employees at all levels to:

• better understand behavioral differences between people
• better understand their own behavior
• better understand the behavior of others
• promote appreciation of differences

DiSC Classic is available in 2 formats:

• DiSC Classic Paper
• DiSC Classic 2.0 Online

*Management, Sales, and Team Building applications are available with the DiSC online profile.


DiSC PPSS (General Characteristics)
DiSC PPSS is an in-depth DiSC report. It is often used by trainers and consultants as a follow up to the DiSC Classic. DiSC PPSS has 50 categories of applied behavior with key application areas. Many people like its easy-to-read bullet format.

Choose the DiSC PPSS when individuals want to gain a deeper understanding of self in specific applications. Are your clients/employees asking "When I'm working in a sales environment, why do I sometimes feel like I'm not getting through to my customer?" Are the managers asking "Why do I seem to conncet better with some employees than others?" or "How can I modify my behavior to more effectively manage certain employees?" Are coworkers asking "What are some strategies for problem solving with others?"

DiSC PPSS helps employees at all levels to:

• better understand their own behavior
• learn how and when to adapt their behavior
• improve communication and reduce conflict
• enhance individual and team performance

DiSC PPSS formats:
Online:

• Individual report
• IPPS - 360 Feedback on style
• Comparison information:
• Person to Person
• Role to Role
• Person to Role

*Management, Sales, and Team Building applications are available with the DiSC PPSS.

DiSC Indra
DiSC Indra is the newest member of the DiSC family. It offers 3 levels of relationship insight:
360 degrees of expression (self), 360 degrees of relationship (one-on-one), 360 degrees of influence (group).

DiSC Indra will explain why you are more comfortable and more effective working with others. Are your clients/employees asking "How can I improve my relationship with my coworker?" Are members of the team asking "What can we do to work more effectively with each other? Are some employees concerned that the majority of employees in their department are a different style and they wonder how they can fit in?

DiSC Indra helps employees at all levels to:

• explore relationship dynamics of two or more people, teams, departments, or entire organizations
• discover strategies for increasing comfort and effectiveness in specific one-on-one relationships
• improve comfort and effectiveness in team, coaching, and leadership situations
• resolve conflict

DiSC Indra Formats
Online:

• Individual report
• Dyad report
• Group report

Questions? Call Resources Unlimited at 800.278.1292

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What is DiSC?

"What is DiSC?"

DiSC is an acronym for the 4 dimensions of behaviorDiSC is based on a four-quadrant model that describes the four dimensions of human behavior. The dimensions are:

• Dominance: Direct & Decisive. D's are strong-willed, strong-minded people who like accepting challenges, taking action, and getting immediate results.
• influence: Optimistic & Outgoing. I's are "people people" who like participating on teams, sharing ideas, and energizing and entertaining others.
• Steadiness: Sympathetic & Cooperative. S's are helpful people who like working behind the scenes, performing in consistent and predictable ways, and being good listeners.
• Conscientiousness: Concerned & Correct. C's are sticklers for quality and like planning ahead, employing systematic approaches, and checking and re-checking for accuracy.

It is important to understand that there are a total of 16 different Profile Pattern results, which are combinations of the 4 dimensions.

The DiSC System helps you understand yourself in four behavioral environments:

• Me vs. Me: Intrapersonal
• Me vs. You: Interpersonal
• Me vs. Job: Personal-Functional
• Me vs. Organization: Personal-Organizational

How to Use DiSC Profiles?

DiSC is an assessment to determine a person's behavior in a specific environment. It is most commonly used in the workplace. Trainers, consultants, coaches, and HR professionals have relied on DiSC to improve large and small organizations for 30 years.

How many ways does behavior affect the person's ability to function through everyday tasks? Here are just a few off the top of my head: stress management, teamwork, communication, expectations of others, listening skills, dealing with conflict, management skills, sales skills, and customer service skills. The DiSC profiles will help you and your organization improve effectiveness in all of these areas.

To learn more about DiSC, join us for our next free A Taste of DiSC session. These teleconferences are scheduled every 6 weeks for new coaches, consultants, and trainers interested in using DiSC. A Master DiSC Trainer with 20+ years experience will walk you through your personalized DiSC report and help you with the interpretation of your results. Learn more >>>.

View our DiSC Profile Products.

Visit us at www.ResourcesUnlimited.com or call us at 800.278.1292 if you would like more information.

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Why You Should Choose Inscape Publishing's DiSC Assessment

With the hundreds of behavioral workplace assessments and profiles in the marketplace today, it could take months to research all of them. We've compiled a list to help you.

Top 10 List of Reasons you Should Choose Inscape Publishing's DiSC Assessment over the rest. When you compare Inscape Publishing to the other behavioral assessments out there, you will quickly see the superior quality provided by Inscape.

10: Inscape Publishing was the first company to commercialize instrument-based learning (1976), transforming the role of assessments in the workplace.

9: Inscape Publishing has the largest distributor network of any learning systems company.

8: Inscape Publishing products are integral to the learning and performance strategies of market-leading organizations such as Avon, U.S. Air Force, Guarantee Bank, Environmental Protection Agency, Oki Data, and Cargill.

7: Inscape Publishing is owned by The Riverside Company, the largest private equity firm specializing in middle market niche companies.

6: Inscape Publishing offers assessments in 25 languages

5: Inscape Publishing's DiSC Profile offers the most value for the price of its assessments: DiSC General Characteristics Profile - the most in-depth DiSC profile - is only $41.25 per person or $75 with add-on reports for sales, managers, or team building.

4: Inscape Publishing offers group reports that can be used by DiSC Trainers, or shared with the group for a higher understanding of the group's culture.

The DiSC Facilitator's Report lets you build customized group reports using data from DiSC Classic 1.0, DiSC Classic 2.0, and DiSC PPSS on EPIC. The report includes an illustration of the group's distribution of DiSC styles, the group's Classical Pattern distribution, and detailed information on how each individual's DiSC style may affect the DiSC culture within the group or organization.

The NEW DiSC Group Culture Report helps you answer these questions: • What is the DiSC style of a group?• What are the advantages and disadvantages of the group culture?• How does the group culture affect members with different DiSC styles?• How does the group culture influence decision making?• How does it affect risk taking?• What types of behaviors are valued? What behaviors are not valued?

3: The Electronic Profile Information System (EPIC) Account - a platform released February 2003, is an Internet based, password protected system that allows administrators to send the online DiSC profile to hundreds of employees and training participants in less than 15 minutes. EPIC is great for multi-location businesses because administrators can send online profiles to anyone in the world via email. EPIC stores all of your completed reports, making it easy to generate group reports at any time.

Clients of Resources Unlimited can receive a free EPIC Account ($120 set-up value) when they order 4 or more online assessments. Afterwards, clients only pay for the assessments they use, and will never pay any renewal fees.

2: The Everything DiSC Facilitation System and DVD - released October 2004, is a unique training product used by DiSC beginners, experienced DiSC Trainers, and consultants to deliver DiSC solutions. The Everything DiSC Facilitation System helps trainers and consultants discover new ways to use a broad range of DiSC tools in an unlimited variety of applications, while allowing for creativity.

1: Inscape Publishing provides continued Research and Development: Inscape Publishing is committed to maintaining the highest standards of instrument development and application through careful research and development processes. All of our DiSC® instruments offer valid scores and accurate feedback to the respondent.

Questions? Please feel free to call us at 800.278.1292.

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DiSC Humor

Getting on a busy elevator…

• The D walks up, gets on the elevator, and pushes the button that closes the door.
• The i lets others in, says “Always room for one more,” and “Come in, you’re going to be late; we’ll wait for you!”
• The S will wait in line, moving from one line to another, unable to make adecision.
• The C will get on the elevator. If it’s crowded, the C will count the number ofpeople and, if the number is over the limit, will make someone get off.

Shopping for groceries…

• The D is the impulse shopper. No list.
• The i tells you where everything is in the store, whether you ask or not.
• The S is prepared, has a list, and gets it done efficiently.
• The C wouldn’t think of going shopping without coupons and a calculator.
  

On the golf course…

• The D frequently drives through groups of golfers.
• The i spends more time in the clubhouse talking than on the course.
• The S plays golf the same day, the same time, the same place, using the same clubs.
• The C keeps score, plays strictly by the rules, and cleans his or her clubs a lot.
  

Hanging wallpaper…

• The D says, “Come over Saturday and help me wallpaper. And bring the paste.” The D then starts in the middle of the living room. The patterns don’t match. The D says, “So what? That’s what drapes and pictures are for.”
• The i has the wallpaper in the closet with the paste. It’s on the list of things to do. The i never gets around to it.
• The S has to find a pattern that everyone likes before even beginning to think about hanging it.
• The C starts in a closet or in the garage to be sure the pattern is going to match. The C then gets it exactly right before starting on the living room.

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DiSC Profile Patterns - Occupational Analysis

The DiSC Profile is more and more frequently being used as a pre-hiring tool. We frequently receive questions from clients asking us which DiSC patterns are typical for certain occupations. To answer this, we have provided some information below, provided by Inscape Publishing, creator of the DiSC Profile (2002).

Customer Service:

Perfectionist Pattern (25%)
Secondaries: Specialist (13%) and Counselor (11%)

Executive:

Top 3 Patterns: Result-Oriented (17%) , Inspirational (15%) , Creative (14%)

Sales:

Inspirational (17%), Promoter (16%), Result-Oriented (12%)

Mechanical/Technical:

Perfectionist Pattern (29%)
Secondaries: Specialist (10%), Creative (9%)

Secretarial/Clerical:

Perfectionist Pattern (33%)
Secondaries: Specialist (10%), Counselor (9%)

To get the greatest understanding of how a candidate's DiSC profile compares to your particular job, we highly recommend completing a DiSC Role Behavior Analysis. All jobs are different depending on the clientele, industry, work environment, etc.

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