Succession Planning The DISCy Chicks wrap up they Employee Lifecycle series on using the many tools offered by TTISI to enable leaders to build their bench strength within their organization. The job benchmarking process is revisited as you look at the employees that you think are highly promotable. Cindy and Martha have conducted job benchmarking …

Applying Assessment Results for Employee Development Cindy and Martha share their experience and wisdom in strategically developing your employees. The DISCy Chicks recommend one-on-one meetings with your direct reports once a week for thirty minutes, which are accountability meetings for both of you. They also recommend giving feedback in a very s…

The DISCy Chicks talk about assessments that can boost the bonding process for you and your new employee. Why wait 90 days to see how your new hire is fitting in? We recommend on Day 1 that the manager review new hire's assessment with with hime or her and even better, to review the manager's report too. You can merge both reports into a comparison…

Assessments that enable employee life cycle success Cindy Jacoby and Martha Forlines continue the conversation on how employee assessments can enable greater success in the employee attraction and talent acquisition stage of the employee life cycle. The DISCy Chicks describe how the DISC Behaviors, Driving Forces and Competencies (TriMetrix DNA) is…

Ways to use Assessments throughout the Employee Life Cycle: Attraction, Selection, Onboarding, Development, Engagement, and Separation. The DISCy Chicks give you an overview of each step of the life employee life cycle in this podcast. As a leader, assessments give you great insight into each of your team members so you can leverage their strengths…

Do you resolve to give back? To volunteer more? The DISCy Chicks explore all twelve of the Driving Forces that enable you to find "giving" or outreach opportunities in your community that fit your top two motivators! Listen and learn about each of the driving forces, and understand the "how and why" behind each of these when it comes to finding rea…

Christie Haynes is a senior level executive that has been using the Talent Insights Assessment (DISC Behaviors and Driving Forces) for eight plus years. Listen as she describes how she and her management teams utilized these tools in a number of ways including selection of new hires using the benchmarking process. Christie and her team found the Ta…

Join Cindy and Martha as they continue their discussions about the Trimetrics EQ assessment and how to the value add to you as a leader this report. It combines Driving Forces, DISC Behaviors, and Emotional Intelligence...all in one report. We walk you through a unique way of using this report. The reality is we may be triggered at work when someon…

Join Cindy and Martha as they speak to the value add to you as a leader with the Tri-Metrix EQ report. It combines Driving Forces (Motivators), DISC Behaviors, and Emotional Intelligence...all in one report. We walk you through a unique way of using this report. The reality is we may be triggered at work when someone says something to us that goes …

DISCy Chicks Martha and Cindy continue to help you put those assessments to work for the benefit of your direct reports. Assessments are more than just material for one-day workshop. Pull out those reports and take another look at the 12 Driving Forces. The Chicks choose four random driving forces and brainstorm ways you can recognize, reward and e…

DISCy Chicks Martha and Cindy help you put those assessments to work for the benefit of your direct reports. Assessments are more than just material for one-day workshop. Pull out those reports and take another look at the 12 Driving Forces. The Chicks choose four random driving forces and brainstorm ways you can recognize, reward and engage a dire…

What is Adaptive Behavior? Listen as the DISCy Chicks help you understand the importance of your adaptive behavior at work. The truth is we all adapt our behavior at times and particularly when we are at work, not so much at home with family and friends. Our DISC Behavior assessment provider, TTISI has developed a patented method for both a natural…

Turnabout is fair play! In our last podcast, Martha facilitated a DISC debrief with Cindy. This week the tables turn and Cindy reviews Martha's hidden motivators- we call Driving Forces. The Driving Forces is the WHY behind our behavior and are often hidden, unlike our behaviors, which makes it a little more challenging to be self-aware. Watch how …

Listen in as Martha walks fellow DISCy Chick Cindy through her DISC report section by section. Understand what is actually in these reports and how they can grow self-awareness. Martha reviews the report having Cindy comment on how her profile (a high dominant, influence, and steady styles with a very low compliant score) actually shows up everyday…

The DISCy Chicks are continuing this series on selling to all four behavior styles. Listen as Martha and Cindy share their wisdom of how a High Compliant can sell to the high and low dominant, influence, steady and compliant behavior styles. Hear what this high detail-oriented seller must do to be more effective with other styles. The key for effec…

The DISCy Chicks are continuing this series on selling to all four behavior styles. Listen as Martha and Cindy share their wisdom of how a High Steady can sell to the high and low dominant, influence, steady and compliant behavior styles. The key for effective selling is learning to adapt to the styles that are so different from your own! discychic…

Selling can seem natural for this people-focused, out-going communicator. Striking up a conversation and finding things in common with a prospect come easily to a High I style. Like with all styles, however, too much can be a turn-off. Learn when to keep the energy high and when to tone it down and make the sale. Listen is as the DISCy Chicks walk …

If you are a dominant (direct communicator) or a low D (reflective communicator)- these selling secrets are for you! The DISCy Chicks speak to the selling style for the high dominant (direct communicator) and the low dominant (reflective communicator) with all of the other styles. Most business owners are influencing and selling others throughout t…

TAB is "The Alternative Board". David meets with members monthly as a peer advisory board. They offer coaching, training with a process improvement product called StrapPro, advisement, and accountability. David's members include startups as well as well established businesses as a part of his TAB participants. David doesn't begin any coaching or co…

Meet our Guest Carol Mettenbrink, Director of Product Development for TTISI Carol has been with our favorite assessment provider, TTISI for seven years and has been using their assessment tools for seventeen years! With her vast knowledge of all of the products, Carol has worked with very large corporations as well as smaller companies. She shares …

The DISCY Chicks kick off 2023 with a bang as Cindy interviews high energy Amanda Moser for our final recording for 2022! Amanda is one of Cindy's clients that is a BIG user and believer in the power of the DISC Behaviors and Driving Forces assessment. She was first introduced to DISC earlier in her career with a non-profit organization. Amanda ben…

It's that time of year again for many businesses...the annual performance review process! Cindy and Martha share lots of tips for those of you that are in the middle of this critical people process in your business. Preparation is the first step. Have you reviewed the DISC behavior style and motivators for each employee prior to your one-on-one mee…

The client question that inspired this episode: "How can I get others to see the value in taking these assessments?" The DISCy Chicks went to the experts in leadership development...John Maxwell, Steven Covey, Daniel Goleman, and Tony Robbins to help them answer this question. Cindy and Martha share with you the themes from the masters such as the …

The latest buzzword in business performance seems to be Quiet Quitting. The DISCy Chicks did their research to see if this was really a thing. Quiet Quitting seems a lot like an employee engagement issue, so we went straight to the experts at Gallup to see what they say. Listen in as the Chicks talk about this trend in the workforce in the U.S. Did…

The DISCy Chicks were on the road this week, attending the annual Converge Conference for TTISI, our assessment partner! This was the first live conference since 2020 and Martha and Cindy enjoyed spending time with each other and all the other partners across the globe that use assessments to solve strategic people issues, like hiring, onboarding, …

Cindy and Martha are zooming into the next episode about your leadership team! Every time you add a new member to your leadership team, the dynamics of the team shift. The DISCy Chicks cover Tuckman's Teaming Model that every team goes through including Forming, Storming, Norming and Performing. The right assessments can enable your team to progres…

Does your business need a people strategy? The DISCy Chicks are baaack following a summer break! Season 5's theme is how you as a leader or CEO of your business can strategically use assessments to enable organization-wide success with your employees, customers, and vendors. Cindy and Martha are zooming out this season to take a strategic look at h…

Hall of Fame Episode from November 2020 Apply DISC Watching Your Favorite TV Shows and Movies 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 lea…

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 relation…

Listen to the DISCy Chicks as they share the Emotional Intelligence eBook's tips and tricks that have worked for their clients to improve the five domains of emotional intelligence. Cindy and Martha also share real life client success stories for those who wanted to develop their self-awareness and self-regulation capabilities. Think about what you…

Join the DISCy Chicks as they interview Stacy Axon, CEO of Aspire and Thrive and business development consultant for our assessment partner TTISI. As a serial entrepreneur, she has found her passion helping people to better understand themselves to pursue their purpose and passion. She believes that we are a whole person, which includes body, mind,…

Cindy and Martha walk you through the Emotional Intelligence domain of motivation. Being motivated by the work itself goes beyond just your paycheck. Some might describe it as your passion. Either way, this results in intrinsic satisfaction. If you don't receive that handful of driving forces, it can lead to lack of engagement and your performance …

Show Notes Cindy and Martha share their wisdom about EQ and leadership. High performance is the hallmark for leaders with high emotional intelligence. So, what does this look like? Effective leaders are trustworthy and show up in a consistent, reliable way and can relate to people that are different from them by meeting each employee where they are…

The Chicks, Cindy and Martha, address the elements of emotional intelligence as it relates to others in the form of social awareness and social regulation. Social awareness has two primary components, the ability to show empathy, like being able to walk a mile in someone else's shoes. The second component is being able to read the room during a tea…

The DISCy Chicks welcome Ron Oltmanns to our podcast. He is president of his own business LeadSkill that helps leaders grow their self-awareness which enables them in turn to grow their teams. Ron has a keen focus on EQ in the development of leaders and more specifically in how to help them clearly identify what emotions they experience throughout …

Cindy and Martha continue the conversation about Emotional Intelligence and dive into the first two domains of EQ, self-awareness and self-regulation. Watch (or listen) as they review a simplified neurological and physiological sequence of events that occur when you have an emotional response at work or at home. And, of course they offer potential …

The DISCy Chicks are excited to introduce another assessment science to you! Listen as they walk you through the five domains of emotional intelligence; self-awareness, self-regulation and motivation, which are the intrapersonal dimensions of EQ and social awareness and social regulation are the interpersonal dimensions. The benefits of growing you…

Welcome to our final session about professional and personal growth using the DISC Behavior and Driving Forces assessment. Cindy talks Martha through her blended behaviors and driving forces portion of this report. Listen to how these blended sciences play out for her every day! Remember, you can take a free assessment from our Facebook page or our…

Turnabout is fair play, as Cindy coaches Martha around her top four Driving Forces or motivators. Your motivators are your WHY - why you do what you do or what gets you out of bed in the morning. Watch and listen as she reveals her truth behind her primary motivators, the good outcomes and not as good outcomes of the choices she made with her own b…

The DISCy Chicks continue the "professional growth and development" topic this week by reviewing key pages in the blended behaviors and motivators section of Cindy's report. Listen to the discussion about her blended strengths, potential conflicts, and her ideal work environment. Understanding your strengths, vulnerabilities, and what you need in y…

It's spring time and the DISCy Chicks will be focusing on the topic of growth and development in April. In this session Cindy and Martha review Cindy's strengths and development opportunities from her own DISC report. Martha facilitates this conversation with Cindy to give you a snapshot of a mini coaching session so she can leverage her strengths …

The DISCy Chicks have our first video guest, Yvonne Reese, owner of Yvonne Reese Consulting. Her practice focuses on coaching sales professionals, and her number one go to assessment is DISC! Listen as she shares her success stories helping sales people meet prospects where they are behaviorally as well as the importance of adapting to your prospec…

The Chicks have gone live on Facebook! We do our best to describe the visuals in the video, so if you are listening to our podcast, you can also go to DISCy Chicks Podcast on Facebook. Join the DISCy Chicks for the final teaming session for this month. Following a team review of the DISC Behavior and Driving Forces Team Wheel, Cindy and Martha ofte…

Where would you fall on your team's motivators wheel? The Chicks have gone live on Facebook! We do our best to describe the visuals in the video, so if you are listening to our podcast, you can also go to DISCy Chicks Podcast on Facebook. Cindy and Martha continue the theme of workplace teaming by sharing the team Driving Forces wheel this week. As…

The Chicks have gone live on Facebook! We do our best to describe the visuals in the video, so if you are listening to our podcast, you can also go to DISCy Chicks Podcast on Facebook. The DISCy Chicks do a recap of the 12 Driving Forces or motivators in preparation for next week's session about the Driving Forces team wheel! Your motivators are yo…

The Chicks have gone live on Facebook! We do our best to describe the visuals in the video, so if you are listening to our podcast, you can also go to DISCy Chicks Podcast on Facebook. Join the DISCy Chicks as they share the DISC teaming tools to help your team improve communications, collaboration, and performance. You and your team learn about th…

The Chicks have gone live on Facebook! We do our best to describe the visuals in the video, so if you are listening to our podcast, you can also go to DISCy Chicks Podcast on Facebook. The DISCy Chicks continue the power of DISC behaviors to enable your teams to communicate, collaborate, and perform their best. Cindy and Martha use images to show t…

The Chicks have gone live on Facebook! We do our best to describe the visuals in the video, so if you are listening to our podcast, you can also go to DISCy Chicks Podcast on Facebook. Cindy and Martha talk more about behavior style compatibility for teams this week. The focus is on the "Steady" behavior style and the "Compliant" behavior style. Li…

The Chicks have gone live on Facebook! We do our best to describe the visuals in the video, so if you are listening to our podcast and want to see us as we record, visit DISCy Chicks Podcast on Facebook. The DISCy Chicks turn the DISC graph on its side. Instead of talking about high and low, we talk about DISC factors on a continuum - right to left…

If you are a high or low Steady or a high or low Compliant, what disruptive behaviors might you be revealing, without even knowing it? Our friends at TTI recently published a blog that caught our eye and it was all about behavioral blindspots! The DISCy Chicks continue their conversation about the importance of knowing what your potential blindspot…