Your DISC

guide

Using DISC communication assessment tools and Allison’s experienced interpretation guidance, you can decode human behaviors and actions, maximize strengths, gain cooperation from others, minimize, or manage conflicts and discover how to integrate and adapt communication styles to improve working relationships throughout your organization.

Who benefits?

From small businesses to Fortune 500 Companies, leaders and their teams benefit from using highly validated assessments.

DISC For Teams

Do your team members experience communication challenges, seem disengaged or unproductive? Is attracting or retaining talent difficult?

Effective team communication is essential for any organization, and team building with DISC Communication insights can powerfully help teams improve their communication skills, build trust, become more engaged and work better.

From small businesses to Fortune 500 Companies, leaders and their teams benefit from DISC tools. By understanding, adapting, and leveraging different communication styles, virtual, hybrid or in-person teams can improve their communication and collaboration, leading to better business outcomes.

Certified DISC Consultant, Allison Tabor, facilitates highly effective, fun, interactive workshops and retreats. Her virtual and in-person communication training has an immediate and lasting impact, helping team members develop stronger interpersonal relationships by understanding each other’s communication styles and preferences. This can lead to improved self-awareness, greater trust, respect, and empathy within the team, ultimately resulting in improved team morale, engagement, and productivity.

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DISC for Leaders & Executives

Do you find it difficult to communicate with certain people? Would you like to influence others more effectively?

Business owners, leaders and executives interact with, sell, or persuade others, including: partners, employees, prospective and current clients, co-workers, vendors, board members, colleagues, and other stakeholders.

Understanding your unique communication style and how to successfully communicate with others is perhaps THE most important skill any business owner, leader or executive could have.

Using DISC communication assessment tools with Allison’s experienced interpretation guidance, you can decode human behaviors and actions, maximize strengths, gain cooperation from others, improve sales outcomes, minimize, or manage conflicts and discover how to integrate and adapt communication styles to improve working relationships throughout your organization and personally.

the

DISC approach

DISC Has Four Primary Behavioral Styles

D – Dominance/Decisive
I – Influence/Interactive
S – Steadiness/Stabilizing
C – Compliance/Cautious

Developed by William Moulton Marston Ph.D., more than 75 years ago, DISC is an easy to follow and highly reliable behavioral assessment helping people to better understand and communicate with others.

By learning our own communication style and that of others through the DISC process, we will better understand each other, as well as be better understood. Use your DISC assessment for:

  • Hiring
  • Team Building
  • Talent Management
  • Conflict Management
  • Leadership Development
  • Coaching
  • Sales
  • Customer Service

Who Uses DISC?

Many professionals and small businesses to Fortune 500 Companies in 90 countries, in 40 languages, use and benefit from the power of DISC Communication tools. Integrating DISC Communication is highly effective in assisting individuals and teams to improve their communication and performance.

DISC is effective for candidate interviews and a versatile management tool to revitalize employees, improve communication, build sound relationships and increase sales. The highly validated DISC assessment immediately produces a personalized report with valuable information unique to the respondent’s behaviors. This information, supported by experienced interpretation and guidance through individual consulting, coaching and/or group workshops, leads to improved results both for the individual and the team.

Certification

As a certified DISC Consultant who has reviewed thousands of DISC reports, Allison reliably interprets DISC assessments; one-on-one and facilitates team communication workshops helping to improve communication, foster collaboration, build highly productive teams and improve results. Through the use of DISC assessments and executive coaching, Allison capably assists people to become better leaders, communicators and collaborators.

  • DISC assessments for individuals & teams
  • Communication Workshops & Retreats

For the “do it yourself” executives, DISC assessments without the support of experienced interpretation and guidance will not produce desired results. Rather, it often wastes time and money and is counter-productive.

assessment & interpretation

insights

Communication Assessment

The ADVanced Insights assessment provides a comprehensive report for individuals, partners and/or teams. The report details communication style, motivators and attributes.

Combining your report with experienced guided interpretation, you will better understand the strengths and challenges of your behavioral style. Additionally, you will learn how to recognize other people’s communication styles and strategies for integrating their styles for better results. This is ideal for anyone who would like to have more effective communication and results with others (including prospective customers, clients, vendors, associates and personal contacts).

Partners will identify and rank their Communication Do’s and Don’ts and learn how to communicate more effectively with each other.

Using a comparative online communication and talent assessment tool to better understand each team member’s communication style and motivators, business leaders will be able to hire, motivate, lead and retain the right talent.

Do you have an employee who is skilled and perhaps even a top performer, but is having difficulty getting along or even relating with others? Using DISC as a tool, Allison helps individuals to better understand their own style and that of others, communicate more effectively with others and manage conflict more successfully.

the

process

Phase I: Combo Reports for Individuals & Teams

Through individual online assessments, the ADVanced Insights report information will help provide insightful information regarding the team member’s communication style and motivators. Additionally, the individual report insights are very useful for the employee’s development, motivation and coaching.

WHAT (DISC): Natural talents based on how one thinks and makes decisions.

WHY (Engagement): Deep conditioned motivators and drivers that affect engagement and passion.

HOW: Natural behavioral styles that control task completion, interpersonal interactions and direct job performance.

The team reports provide insightful information regarding the team’s collective communication styles and motivators, which can be very useful in improving team effectiveness and morale as well as identifying gaps.

Phase II: ADVanced Insights Reports Debriefing

A review of the highlights of the ADVanced Insights reports to identify relevant information regarding the collective team members communication styles and motivators.  Identify where the communication style’s overlap and any potential voids that may impact healthier company communication. This phase can also include a comparative review of any individual’s report highlights, including the strengths and challenges of their behavioral styles.

Phase III: Communication Workshop for Teams

An interactive workshop from ½ day to full day with participating team members to learn about the language of DISC, review each of their DISC graphs, motivators and rank their Communication Do’ s and Don’ts and learn how to communicate more effectively with each other.  Additionally, provide an overview of how to recognize client and prospective client’s communication styles and strategies for integrating their styles to improve customer service and increase sales.

Phase IV

Customized consulting assistance.

Allison Tabor is highly experienced and very passionate about helping individuals and teams to become more effective communicators and relators. Allison is a Certified Analyst in Applied Axiology Theory, DISC, Behavioral Theory & Values Theory.

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