Take Flight Learning Certifications

Certification enables you to facilitate the Taking Flight with DISC Workshops

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Perhaps you have been training in DISC for years and are open to fresh activities, new insights, and premium materials to add to your repertoire. Or, maybe you are new to training or new to training with DISC. Becoming certified in the Take Flight Learning DISC programs will equip you with the skills, knowledge, and best practices to facilitate engaging, epiphany-filled DISC training sessions.

The certification process was personally created by Merrick Rosenberg, author of The Chameleon and coauthor of Taking Flight!. Merrick has incorporated his 25 years of experience in working with more than 30,000 classroom participants to help you bring the styles to life in your training programs.

In addition to learning how to facilitate activity-filled DISC training programs, you will get everything you need to lead your sessions. You will receive fully-scripted facilitator guide, PowerPoint presentations you can use in the classroom.

Our certified trainers regularly report that the certification was so informative, they felt comfortable leading their first Take Flight Learning DISC training program the day after the certification.

Taking Flight with DISC Certification

If you're like most facilitators, you want to immediately capture the attention of your participants... and you want to keep it! You want your programs to be dynamic, engaging, informative and so effective, they not only change the participants' mindset but also their behavior. If so, the Taking Flight with DISC certification was designed with you in mind.

The Taking Flight with DISC certification will provide you with everything you need to know about leading a successful DISC session, including:

Learning about the history and theoretical foundation of the DISC styles.
Interpreting DISC profile graphs.
Understanding the four styles and learning how to apply them in everyday situations.
Integrating the Taking Flight birds to deepen the DISC experience.
Flex their style to bridge to others during conflict.
Utilizing the Taking Flight with DISC Facilitator Kit.
Facilitating Taking Flight exercises to engage participants.
Applying DISC in a variety of settings, including: Coaching, conflict management, leadership development, sales training, hiring and team building.

The session will be led by Merrick Rosenberg, co-author of Taking Flight! and the author of The Chameleon. You will learn from Merrick's vast background of working with more than 20,000 people in DISC training programs.

Chameleon Leadership Certification

The Chameleon Leadership Program builds upon the skills learned in the Taking Flight with DISC Program, taking a fresh approach to leadership by using the power of your personality.

Based on the principles in Merrick Rosenberg's book, The Chameleon: Life-Changing Wisdom for Anyone Who Has a Personality or Knows Someone Who Does, this session helps leaders better understand themselves, their own natural leadership skills, and how to adapt those skills to meet the needs of their team.

This course expands on your knowledge about the four styles gained in the Taking Flight with DISC program. This session will enable you to infuse the Eagles, Parrots, Doves, and Owls into your leadership style.

You will be able to:

Redefine leadership in a way that strengthens you and your team.
Apply the four styles to listening and communicating.
Identify predictable behaviors throughout each stage of the selling process based on the four styles.
Advance delegation strategies by assigning work in the style your team members need most.
Connect with feedback recipients to improve their ability to turn feedback into action.
Implement the One-Thing Method to improve questioning during performance reviews and coaching sessions.
Increase the level of engagement on your team by switching your focus to style-based needs.
Create an action plan with concrete tips to put today's knowledge and wisdom into action.

ReDISCovering Conflict Certification

People often struggle with conflict especially in the workplace. Fortunately, there are training programs to teach people how to manage it. And now it's time to breathe new life into this training staple! Just as Taking Flight with DISC completely revolutionized DISC personality style training, ReDISCovering Conflict transforms conflict management training.

In this half-day certification course, you will learn how to guide participants to view conflict through the lens of the four personality styles drawn from the founding principles of Taking Flight with DISC and Merrick Rosenberg's book, The Chameleon.

The ReDISCovering Conflict Certification provides facilitators with everything they need to know about instructing others on how personality styles play into conflict development and resolution.

This session includes:

An introduction to the new Chameleon Conflict Model and teaches trainers how to integrate the styles into the conflict management process.
The foundational skills needed by trainers to reframe conflict as an opportunity to build relationships and work through issues.
A new way to think about conflict, thus making it easy and comfortable for participants to proactively and responsively deal with conflict situations.
Guidelines for flexing one's own personality style to "be the chameleon" and connect with others during conflict.
The methodology for facilitating ReDISCovering Conflict exercises to engage participants and turn conflict into a constructive force.

Chameleon Selling Certification

The Chameleon Selling certification teaches trainers how to lead a one-day sales training program based on selling with the DISC styles. This certification will provide trainers with the insights and training materials to conduct an engaging session filled with interactive exercises. Built off of the DISC principles as described in Merrick Rosenberg's book, The Chameleon, trainers will learn how to help salespeople better understand themselves, their customers and prospective customers. Trainers will gain the skills to take salespeople to the next level.

Chameleon Selling is designed to take salespeople to the next level. Participants will learn how to infuse style into everything they do from the initial phase of prospecting and qualifying leads to maintaining the relationship and creating post-sales opportunities.

Chameleon Selling empowers and enables individuals to:

Develop greater self-awareness of one's own selling style and its impact on sales success.
Recognize style characteristics of potential customers.
Identify predictable behaviors throughout each stage of the selling process based on the four styles.
Utilize the ADAPT model to improve effectiveness with all types of customers throughout the process.
Present to groups containing multiple personality styles.
Work together more effectively with fellow team members to maximize sales.
Increase sales revenue by incorporating style into their sales skills and strategies.

Innovating IDEAs Certification

The Innovating IDEAs certification utilizes the four styles to help people tap into their natural strengths when generating ideas and bringing them to life. Interactive exercises flow through each phase of the innovative process from the original spark of the idea through final implementation. Teams will discover how to release untapped creative potential by giving each person the opportunity to play a vital role.

This certification follows the four bird styles through two loops of the IDEA model. Creativity relates to the inner world of imagination, while innovation relates to the outer world of implementation.