Would you like to make 2023 the year when you Vanquish the Villain of Turnover in your office? I’m excited to share the keys and the process we used in our office for over thirty years that resulted in long-term staff who were fulfilled in their roles and committed to staying in our practice over time. [...]
Have you ever had a teen who added the element of fun to everything they did? And were so persuasive, they could talk anyone into sharing that fun with them? So how does this high energy, fun-loving teenager relate with a parent who is slower paced, and detail oriented? As we go through the Adult to [...]
High D-Style children have been described as “a tornado looking for a place to happen”. Their drive to control as well as their high energy level influence every day of their lives. Add to this the hormones in the teen years and the highs and lows of the transition to independence and adulthood, and you have [...]
As we seek as adults to relate well with teens, whether they are in our family, our church group, or our practice, we can use the DISC System to give us another layer of understanding and strategies. As we go through the Adult to Teen DISC Series, the combination we will discuss this week is the [...]
Hooray and Finally - Let’s BEGIN! As Dr. Charles Boyd states in his excellent book, Different Children, Different Needs [affiliate link], “outside of God’s Word, the insights I’ve gained through the DISC model are the most important body of information I possess.” So it was extremely exciting to get permission from the publisher of this book [...]
"Progress" is one of the most important concepts in my life. When you have lots of Irons in the Fire (It can get so confusing that I even keep a monthly chart!), life has to be lived in bite-sized chunks. If I can make even an inch of progress in several different areas, it is a [...]
