How will you Coach your new employee? What will you ask of him/her? Are they capable of doing it? Do they fit the job they have been hired to do?

DISC reports are very thorough, but for them to be useful to the hiring company, you must know what the job entails. If the job could speak what would it say? Remember that DISC only tells HOW the employee will respond to the task. The closer the person and the job match, the more successful they will be. High D’s like to make decisions and be in a highly visible leadership role. Put them in a room by themselves and they will retire in place- if you can even keep them in the room!

As you Coach the high C, put them in the room. They are thrilled to work on projects alone, in a private area with no interruptions and very explicit rules to follow.

Placing these people in the wrong roles leads to absenteeism, possible drug use and eventually they will leave or you will fire them. In spite of all the costs you have incurred, you have lost of some of your self esteem as a leader by making poor hiring decisions. Use the DISC and PIAV as a hiring tool. You will make yourself successful and contribute to the success of others. Hiring the right people makes you a great leader.

An informed leader knows how to hire the right people using DISC and PIAV. Take 20 minutes and complete one on line.

I don’t like to use data to make decisions.

This was a surprise to many of my co-workers.

Their comments back… All I ever hear you ask for is DATA. Or what does the data show us. Or it looks like we are going against the data that is staring us in the face. How can you not be DATA driven. That is all that you ever talk about… DATA.

Well… it comes back to accountability.

I know that if I set the expectation for people to use data. And I hold them accountable for using data… they will ultimately hold me accountable for the use of data.

Now you may be thinking about how does this relate to the use of a DISC profile.

Well… my DISC profile reinforced that using DATA was not one my strengths.

So… instead of ignoring this fault… I put a process improvement plan in place to defeat it.

Use the DISC profile to ‘Tell you something about Yourself’

You may be surprised on how you can improve yourself… if you just listen.

Again, knowing thyself if the key to your Leadership Development

Short post today…

If one of the Corporate Team shows up at your site, how do you behave?

Do you act the same way that you normally do?

Or do you put on a dog and pony show for them?

And I bet at the end of the day you are very tired!

Why?

Because you have wore a mask all day and acted like someone you were not.

Pretending to be someone else is though work.

This is your ADAPTED style.

Now imagine if you (or one of your employees) has to wear a mask everyday. How long do you think you will keep them?

More about NATURAL and ADAPTED styles later.