Look around at your staff - are they each working in their best possible roles? Are they doing the tasks that truly fit how they are designed? Or are you trying to fit some square pegs into round holes? Are you asking your staff to adapt to responsibilities that don't fit them at all? My last [...]
I think we would all agree that one of our main goals in our office is to build a fully functioning team that serves our patients well. We've discussed the huge benefits in previous posts: Personal satisfaction for team members Everyone can succeed Minimal turnover Minimal rehiring and retraining costs Much less stress on everyone Years [...]
Years ago, one of our employees - an outgoing, high energy, vivacious, super people-person type, came to me one day with these words, "If I have to Go Back There again, I'm going to lose my mind!!" "Go Back There" referred to the fact that she was assigned Lab Duty - so she sat in the far [...]
In our family, we tend to have very strong personalities. So my first response to learning about the DISC was that people were mostly just one Style; so if I got to know those four Basic Styles, I could understand most folks. However, "flash of truth" - people are a LOT more complicated than that!! As [...]
Would you like to learn the ways to deal with stress that are best for you? Would you like to be able to quickly recognize your Stress Responses? Then know how to alleviate that stress response? How about learning specific ways to renew yourself to offset the stress? Several weeks ago, I wrote a couple blog posts [...]
Would you believe that the way you prefer to put together a piece of IKEA furniture can reveal your DISC Style? And also can reveal how you prefer to accomplish a task? Special thanks to Extended DISC, Inc., for this example... which I find fascinating. I am a BIG fan of IKEA, but my children who [...]
