New Hope for Team LeadersI bet your Leaders do not love the leadership they provide for their team members right now.I also bet you know you could all do a much better job leading your teams if you had the time, tools and support you need. So what's stopping you all?I've written before about my pet hate for #workplaceleadership, and I will no doubt continue to do so until it changes or I die.The Expectation: Team Leaders manage a team and are expected to get the best from their Team collectivel...

This week, a client asked me,"How Extended DISC compare with the Clifton Strengths Finder" (recently rebranded as CliftonStrengths)?My simple answer is, "they don't compare".They are different.CliftonStrengths, is a stand-alone and specialist strengths-identifying tool. CliftonStrengths does not use DISC theory. DISC Reports comprehensively cover strengths and other work and role-based preferences, behavioural traits, characteristics, etc. Extended DISC is a lot smarter than th...

When I see slow workplace assessment questionnaire completion, I wonder whether the participants have been prepped for optimal results.  In my experience, there are four questions that participants want to know the answer to before they feel comfortable undertaking any workplace assessment. But they don't want to have to ask these questions. They are:  Why are we/am I doing this? What is it going to be used for? Who is going to see the results? Who else is d...

Improving employee wellbeing in the workplace is essential in creating a positive working environment. In pursuit of that goal, there are so many methods that experts might implement to conduct employee assessments. Over the years, there is one that has matured and come to the fore: the DISC model. More specifically Extended DISC. As one of the most popular human behaviour models in psychology, the DISC model of human behaviour stretches back 100 years to Carl Jung and his early work on beha...

In the era of lockdowns, social isolation and videoconferencing, it’s more important than ever for managers like you to take care of your employees. Of course, employee wellbeing has been a central theme in management theory for decades. However, now its impacts on performance and retention have become obvious. That said, finding the effective employee wellbeing approaches and programs among all the hundreds out there is a steep challenge for busy managers, business owners, HR professi...