What is Your Next Best Step After Your Staff is Hired? Communication!

Congratulations! You have hired your team. They are all in their ideal places in your office. But now what? How do you keep these excellent people onboard for the long haul? Much of meeting this goal boils down to communication and motivation. Not surprisingly, the DISC System can again give us tremendous insight.

In our family, we learned the value of this in our Family Meetings. We had 3 High D’s, 2 High I’s, 2 High S’s and 1 High C in the group. If our goal was to decide together on where to take our Family Vacation and what activities to include, you can imagine the vast variety of ways that each person communicated about this goal.

The same could be true of a Staff Meeting, where your goal is to make a decision that affects the whole office. Again, you probably have a wide variety of DISC Styles represented on your staff. How do you best communicate together?

In Extended DISC, they have 4 Steps to effective Communication. Let’s start there:

• Step 1: Understand DISC Styles
• Step 2: Identify your DISC Style
• Step 3: Identify the main DISC Styles of others
• Step 4: Modify your own behaviors to improve interaction and communication

In past blogposts, we’ve covered each of the 3 first steps and finished the Hiring Process. Now it is time to go to Step 4 and learn how to modify our own behaviors so we are better communicators. It is a fascinating process!

Over the next few weeks, we will focus on:

1. How People Talk is Revealing
2. How Each DISC Style Prefers to Communicate
3. Are They a Direct Teller or a Persuasive Seller?
4. How Each DISC Style Prefers Others Communicate with them

I hope you will take a few minutes each week to read the upcoming blogposts about these 4 facets of understanding Communication. There is so much potential and so much benefit to learning these communication styles.

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QUESTION: Have you ever considered how DISC Styles can affect how people communicate?  I’d love to hear your thoughts and observations. Please share in the comment section below.