You've probably seen some of the memes circulating the internet using Bernie Sanders appearance at last week's Presidential Inauguration. We thought we'd get in on the act, too. What's funny about the Bernie image is that he looks like he would rather be anywhere else but there. Honestly, who can blame him. Sitting outside on a blustery, snowy January day in Washington, D.C. … [Read more...]
A Jedi Guide to Star Wars DISC Styles
Piggy-backing off of our analysis of The Godfather, let’s look at another group of iconic American film characters. This time we’ll look at the DISC communication styles present in George Lucas’s Star Wars series. While we could certainly look at some of the characters of the more recent movies in the series, the main characters Lucas introduced to us over 40 years ago (and … [Read more...]
How Can You Use the DISC Assessment to Grow Your Emotional Maturity?
https://youtu.be/0vC_M82o6m8?rel=0&showinfo=0 In this post, we'd like to discuss a question we wish we would get asked more frequently. How can you use the DISC assessment to better develop or better grow your emotional intelligence or your emotional maturity? To address that question, we're going to borrow the definition of emotional maturity from Daniel Goleman. He … [Read more...]
I’m Dreaming of a DISC Christmas
Each of us has our own unique communication style, our natural preference for how we prefer to communicate. This phenomenon is expressed through the DISC model. In this series of posts, we take characters from popular culture (television, movies, history, etc.) and analyze where we think they fall on the DISC spectrum. We hope these posts will help you better understand the … [Read more...]
The Crown: Dealing with Conflicting DISC Styles
Each of us has our own unique communication style, our natural preference for how we prefer to communicate. This phenomenon is expressed through the DISC model. In this series of posts, we take characters from popular culture (television, movies, history, etc.) and analyze where we think they fall on the DISC spectrum. We hope these posts will help you better understand the … [Read more...]