Archive for Performance
NorQuest Weekly Round-Up May 17
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Here are our favorite articles this week about leadership:
Leadership Now: 5 Leadership Lessons: The Leader as Strategist
Michael McKinney summarizes Cynthia Montgomery’s book, The Strategist. He notes the author says we have reduced strategy to a right-brain exercise and have lost sight of what it takes to lead the effort.
Forbes.com: Google Can Survive Too Much Innovation. You Can’t
This post outlines why leaders need to focus on the best opportunities only, and not invest in every good innovation or idea that comes your way. The result of “idea overload” can burn-out even the best team, or bankrupt your company.
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Everything DiSC® – Profiles for Performance
Posted by: | CommentsOne of the well-known behavioral rules is that people want you to treat them as they would like to be treated. But people do not go around with their needs displayed for all to see. So, fortunately, there are the Everything DiSC®Profiles. These new learning tools are based on the third generation of the research validated DiSC® assessments, and are ideal for helping you become more effective in your relationships with others.
Everything DiSC is® the fastest, easiest way to go – from assessment to action, with tips and strategies to connect better with your co-workers and improve your workplace relationships. Each profile is topic specific with in-depth information, including tips, strategies, and action plans to help learners become more effective.
Each profile is:
- Specialized: application focused programs improve critical people-skills in the areas of management, sales, leadership, communication and more
- In-depth: follow-up tools create a complete learning experience that takes you from assessment to action – fast
- Customizable: will meet your organization’s needs with easy to use features that help you make the program your own
- Personalized: online assessments provide individualized profiles with tips and strategies for development
Work of Leaders: Vision, Alignment, Execution
Posted by: | CommentsThe Everything DiSC Work of Leaders’Profile is the newest addition to the Everything DiSC family of Profiles. It is classroom training that uses online pre-work, engaging facilitation with contemporary video, and online follow-up to create a learning experience.
First of all, Work of Leaders approaches leadership as a one-to-many relationship, as opposed to the one-to-one relationship of management. It, therefore, focuses on leading a group or an organization toward desired outcomes. For example, Leaders often may be responsible for staff for which they do not have a direct reporting relationship.
Research Based
The Work of Leaders’ Profile is the result of a four year development effort. During this process the work of prominent leadership researchers were analyzed and distilled; including input from more than 300 subject experts at over 150 organizations. The main thrust was to identify leadership behaviors.
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Evolution of DiSC®: From Graph to Dot!
Posted by: | CommentsToday we are starting a series of Blog Posts on the Everything DiSC® line of products. In today’s post we will begin with a video outlining the evolution of the 
DiSC® products from the long recognized graph model to the new circumplex model. We are very interested in your reaction to this evolution – so would welcome your comments.
This video will highlight the differences between the Classic DiSC® graphs and the new circular model Everything DiSC®.
In future weeks we will talk further about each of the following Everything DiSC® reports:
- Everything DiSC® Workplace
- Everything DiSC® Sales
- Everything DiSC® Management
- Everything DiSC® Work of Leaders
- Everything DiSC® 363 Feedback for Leaders
DiSC® PPSS (Personal Profile Systems Software)
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One of my favorites of all the DiSC® reports is the DiSC® PPSS Online Report, because it provides individuals with detailed personalized information to help them apply DiSC® learning in a variety of personal and business situations. It offers a wide range of practical interpretive reports that can help individuals improve their effectiveness, and assist in their success.
But why do we need such a system at all?
Well, people are different – with their own way of looking at the world, and with their own set of needs, wants and fears. And these differences can cause conflict, unless we have a system for understanding differences, and some well thought out strategies for managing these differences. DiSC® is a simple 4 factor system for understanding human behavior that is based on over 2,000 years of human history. It provides a model of understanding yourself, understanding others, and understanding the expectations of the environment in which we are situated. The value of the DiSC® PPSS is that it focuses on the individual, and provides guidance in increasing his/her effectiveness in the world that surrounds them.
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NorQuest Weekly Round-up April 13
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We’ve compiled the week’s top leadership articles and blog posts for you here!
Leading Blog: All In: It’s Culture that Drives Results
Michael McKinney explains that exceptional leaders create a culture that drives innovation and results.
HBR Blog: Great Leaders Use the Power of Dreams
Ron Ashkenas argues organizations can shape their employees’ dreams; and when the dreams are exciting and the odds are believable, employees will dramatically increase their investments in making them come true – especially if personal dreams can be aligned with the organization’s goals.
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NorQuest Weekly Round-up April 6
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Here’s what we’ve selected as the best articles and blogs for the week of April 6:
Fast Company: How To Get The Most Out Of Your Employees
Authors Adrien Gostick and Chester Elton argue that only when an employee is a balance of being fully engaged, enabled, or energized are they able to fully succeed at work.
Leadership Now: A Leader’s Most Dangerous Thought
Michael McKinney delivers an insightful post about the true meaning of leadership – service – and how “I deserve” thinking when in a position of power diminishs the ability to lead effectively.
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