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Taking Flight!: Master the DISC Styles to Transform Your Career, Your Relationships...Your Life
- By Merrick Rosenberg, Daniel Silvert
- Published Jul 2, 2015 by FT Press.
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Features
Use powerful, proven DISC techniques to build better personal relationships and dramatically improve your effectiveness.
- Understand all 4 human behavioral styles, deepen self-awareness, and become a better leader, team member, salesperson, parent, teacher, or student
- A fun-to-read fable and a practical framework: accessible, quick, and transformational
- Create your action plan for improvement
- Based on the authors' immense experience helping executives apply DISC to improve performance
Description
- Copyright 2012
- Dimensions: 5-1/2" x 8"
- Pages: 240
- Edition: 1st
- Book
- ISBN-10: 0-13-437455-X
- ISBN-13: 978-0-13-437455-0
Use powerful DISC personality techniques to build stronger connections and improve performance in your career, relationships, and life.
Taking Flight reveals profound hidden patterns of human behavioral style, offers a blueprint for deeper self-awareness, helps you maximize your own personal strengths, and shows how to influence others more powerfully than ever. You'll learn how to use the proven DISC four-style model of behavior to become a far more effective leader, salesperson, or teacher... revitalize any career... build better relationships... fully leverage your natural gifts, as you empower those around you. If you haven't yet been introduced to DISC, it will change your lifejust as it has for millions before you. Discover:
- Why you "click" with some people and "clank" with others
- What really drives your decisions and actions
- How to identify others' behavioral styles and choose the best ways to interact with them
- How to craft a personal plan for maximizing your strengths and minimizing your weaknesses
Drawing on their immense experience coaching executives and training world-class organizations, Merrick Rosenberg and Daniel Silvert introduce DISC through a fable that's quick, fun, and easy-to-understand. Once you've mastered the basic concepts, they help you put DISC to work in all your own personal interactions and relationships. You'll walk through creating a personal action plan for improvementand then systematically supercharging your personal performance!
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Table of Contents
About the Authors x
Introduction 1
Part I: Taking Flight! The Fable 5
Chapter 1 Home 7
Chapter 2 The Forest Grid 11
Chapter 3 The Council 15
Chapter 4 An Old Friend 25
Chapter 5 The Aftermath 35
Chapter 6 If a Tree Falls in the Forest… 39
Chapter 7 Reconnaissance 47
Chapter 8 The Four Styles 55
Chapter 9 Reflection 63
Chapter 10 The Awakening 71
Chapter 11 The Home Rule 77
Chapter 12 The Stakeout 93
Chapter 13 The Gathering 107
Epilogue The Power of DISC 113
Part II: The DISC Model 117
Go Online to Discover Your Style 120
The History and Mystery of the Four Styles 122
The Four Styles 123
People Reading 127
Seven Transformative DISC Principles 133
Part III: Applying the DISC Styles in Your Life 155
Steps for Reaching Your Highest Potential 157
DISC for Selecting an Educational and Career Path 165
DISC in the Work Environment 170
Tapping the Power of Style in Teams 174
DISC for Teaching and Coaching 185
Educating with DISC 187
Better Parenting with DISC 190
DISC Action Planning 198
DISC Mapping 203
Postscript 207
Appendix: Style Combinations 211