By Michael Holland - Attempting to create your first real training budget? Already have your training budget but wonder how your budget compares to others? Here are some quick data points and thoughts to help in both cases. Creating a Budget Using a Percentage of Payroll To create a budget amount use a percentage of total [...]
The New York Times best-selling author of The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Patrick Lencioni and the acclaimed Everything DiSC® model come together in a breakthrough team development program proven to deliver business results. Based on the hit fable, The Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team™ takes self-awareness to the next level—across workplace teams using [...]
Value of a Team Map – Understanding Your Team Using DiSC DiSC is a great tool to help individuals figure out how to communicate and work better with one another. And when a team comes together to experience DiSC, a team map can be created to help team members – and the team leader – [...]
The single most untapped competitive advantage is teamwork. To gain this advantage, teams must trust each other in order to engage in productive conflict, commit to decisions, hold each other accountable and focus on achieving collective results. The Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team™ has a simple goal: To facilitate a learning experience that helps professionals [...]
Several weeks ago we welcomed Ester, a 17 year old young woman from Brazil, into our home. She will be here for a month, with a goal of improving her English. (Or maybe it’s her father’s goal.) I wasn’t sure what to expect as far as her English language abilities but what I know now [...]
In several books by Stephen Covey, he describes a framework for prioritizing work that is aimed at achieving long-term goals by understanding the lack of need for work on tasks that appear to be urgent, but are in reality less important. He uses a time management 4 box method to categorize tasks on two continuum: [...]
If you haven’t used Comparison Reports, it’s not too late to start! These complimentary added-value reports compare two people’s DiSC® styles, providing them with actionable ways to work better together. Here are a few tips on how to leverage these reports: Onboarding Employees - Comparison Reports accelerate a new employee’s comfort level and ultimately their productivity within the team. [...]
The quality of your workplace can be improved when your co-workers learn how to understand and appreciate each other's priorities and preferences.
Memorial Day weekend. The unofficial start of summer. And my garden in desperate need of attention. My son Bryce, home from college, knew he needed to help out with some family chores. Well, that was a start. As he joined me in the garden, I told him the area he needed to clear out and [...]
What do Wonder Woman, polygraph tests and DiSC assessments have in common? They were all developed by the same Harvard-educated psychologist. http://bit.ly/2sQ2qnC
