DiSC Profiles and DiSC Assessments

DiSC Profiles and DiSC Assessments http://www.discforsmallbusiness.com en-us Copyright 2007 DiSC For Small Business. All Rights Reserved. 24-07-2008 http://www.discforsmallbusiness.com DiSCandreg; instruments have helped more than 40 million people gain the insight they need to be more successful, productive, and fulfilled at work. DiSCandreg; has largely become a springboard for building a focused, unified workforce. It is now a key component in the employee development strategies of leading organizations worldwide.

Developed and refined over decades of use, DiSCandreg; instruments are based on a simple idea andmdash; that the foundation of personal and professional success lies in knowing yourself, understanding others, and realizing the impact of your actions and attitudes on other people.

The learning instruments offered here, at www.DiSCforSmallBusiness.com, are designed to help people gain insight into their attitudes, behaviors, and potential in the workplace. By linking these insights to real-world-tested best practices, we accelerate the transformation of insight into action. This process helps organizations build a workforce that is more effective, focused, and aligned with company strategies and goals.

Whether you are starting up a new company or have maintained a successful small business, DiSCandreg; instruments will help you take your company to the next level of success. By putting into action the strategies that these tools give you, you will be able to realize the goals of your company, team, and personal life.

In addition to our industry-leading DiSCandreg; tools, we also offer a broad range of learning instruments for different performance improvement needs.

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		DiSC®
		Dominance influence Steadiness Conscientiousness How do these affect your business or your life? They can change it. DiSC® behavioral profiles will effectively transform the way you communicate with, deal with, and understand people around you.

		DiSC® Classic
		With 30 years of proven reliability and over 40 million users, DiSC® Classic remains the most trusted learning instrument in the industry. It is used worldwide in dozens of training and coaching applications, including organizational development and performance improvement.

		DiSC® PPSS
		DiSC® PPSS provides individuals and teams with detailed, personalized information to help them apply DiSC® learning in a variety of business applications. It offers a wide range of practical interpretive reports that help people improve their effectiveness in sales, management, and customer service.

		Everything DiSC®
		Organizations worldwide have embraced the language of DiSC® to pave the way for successful training, coaching, and consulting applications. Millions of people have used these DiSC® tools to learn more about themselves and others.

		DiSC® Action Planners
		Extend the power of DiSC® with our family of DiSC® action planners. These research-based learning instruments help people take the insights gained from DiSC® and apply them to specific business applications.

		Other DiSC® Profile Products
		These are more unique and different products offered with the DiSC® system.

		Role Behavior Analysis
		The Role Behavior Analysis uses DiSC® to determine how a job, position, or role needs to be fulfilled to achieve maximum effectiveness. It’s ideal for supervisory and management coaching, performance review support, team-building, and personal development.

		Core Collection
		We've assembled five of our most popular self-discovery tools to help organizations explore and address specific challenges. Each of these instruments can be used as a stand-alone product, together in various combinations, or in conjunction with our DiSC® tools.

		idXready™ 2.0
		idXready™ 2.0 programs are designed to integrate proven learning models, participant pre-work, rich video assets, validated research-based assessments, individualized Participant Workbooks, fully scripted Leader’s Guides, professional PowerPoint, proven processing activities, and contemporary content that actually improves the classroom learning experience.

		Sales
		Do you want to reach sales goals that seem unattainable? Do you want to sell better and maintain good relationships with your clients? Sales isn't just the numbers. Sales is about relationships, customer service, and much more. These products will help you become a "well-rounded" salesperson and increase your effectiveness in increasing your sales.

		Teams
		Do you feel lost in your team? Do you take over most teams? Do you lose your voice when you try to collaborate with teams? Are you intimidating others in your team? Teams can have incredible power in taking businesses to the next level-as long as they are working together in a healthy and constructive manner. Many teams can be dysfunctional because of lacking communication, misunderstandings, etc. These products will help you work within your team to create a unified powerhouse to take the business to the next level.

		Time Management
		Do you feel as though the day disappears and you still have a pile of work on your desk? Are you always in a rush? Do you want to stop your procrastination habits? If managed correctly, time can be on your side, too! These products will increase your productivity and help you break bad habits and exchange them for good habits.

		Management Development
		Being a manager can be tough; you have a lot of responsibility on your shoulders and your whole team is looking to you for direction. These products will help you learn how to unify your team, delegate jobs well, and keep your business on track.

		Customer Service
		Are you a manager or business owner who wants your customer service department to work more effectively and productively? Are your sales dropping because you don't know where to start or how to follow-up when creating relationships with clients? Learning how various personalities work will increase your sales, ensure your clients' happiness, and increase your business' productivity. These products will show you how your customers/clients like to be dealt with and communicated with.

		Coaching
		Are you a manager who is looking for an effective way to bring your team together? Are you a business coach who would like to take your clients to the next level of success? Whether you are a coach, a manager, or an entrepreneur, learning how to coach the people around you that are working with you and for you will take your business and life to the next level. These products will teach you how to coach better, delegate well, and create healthy working environments and healthy teams.

		Communication
		Do you feel misunderstood by co-workers or employers? Do you feel that your employees don't understand or follow the directions you delegate to them? Learning how you communicate first will help you understand how other people around you communicate. A combination of listening, understanding, and speaking, good communication is key for successful teams and businesses. These products will help you understand yourself better as well as understand other people around you better.

		Leadership
		Do you feel that you could be a better leader? Do you want to strengthen your team? How you listen, communicate, and work with your team all reflect on how good of a leader you are. Do you feel that your team is working with you, or working under you? These products will help you lead the way and unify your team to take your business to the next level.

		Change Management
		How do you deal with change? How does your team or business deal with change? Change can be helpful and constructive if dealt with in a healthy and productive manner, but it can also be destructive if you don't use it to your advantage. These products will help you use change to take your business and life to the next level.

		Diversity
		How we approach diversity can strongly affect our relationships with others in business and in life. These products will help you value the diversity within your team and use it to your business' advantage by collaborating the varying strengths in order to balance out the weaknesses.

		Adventures in Attitudes®
		Deliver management and sales programs to your clients...powered by DiSC®! Looking for a human relations program? The Adventures in Attitudes® products will help you rethink how you approach your environment, changes in your business or life, and how you relate to others around you.

		Coping and Stress Profile®
		The Coping & Stress Profile® is a unique, self-directed learning instrument that provides people with valuable feedback on stress and coping in four interconnected areas of life: Personal, Work, Couple, and Family.

		Dimensions of Leadership Profile®
		Leaders come in many varieties, ranging from the charismatic visionary to the unassuming team player. Most leaders display several leadership characteristics or "dimensions of leadership." A follower can become a leader and a leader can spend time as a follower.

		Discovering Diversity Profile®
		The Discovering Diversity Profile® helps employees learn how they respond to workforce diversity and where they need to develop increased understanding. Organizations use it to limit the influence of stereotypes, reduce conflict, and embrace diversity.

		EPIC
		One of the most exciting things to come from Inscape Publishing in recent years is not a product, but a product platform. EPIC (Electronic Profile Information Center) provides a simple way to deliver profiles via the internet. From your computer, you can administer access codes that allow people to complete the assessments online. Once a respondent finishes answering the questions, the resulting report goes to the respondent or to you—you decide!

		Marketing Resources
		The DiSC® Preview is the perfect way to sample DiSC® during your sales process. Marketing collateral — including catalogs and brochures — is also on hand to support your sales and marketing efforts.

		People Reading Guides
		Training enhancers reinforce learning, retention, and quick application of DiSC® behavioral concepts.

		Personal Learning Insights Profile®
		To be successful in today's dynamic, information-intensive world, organizations must encourage and support effective, lifelong learning at all levels of the organization. The Personal Learning Insights Profile® is the reliable, easy-to-use learning strategy you need.

		Personal Listening Profile®
		The Personal Listening Profile® helps people understand different listening styles and provides suggestions for communication skills improvement. Organizations use it to improve management effectiveness, develop leaders, and boost productivity.

		Team Dimensions Profile
		The Team Dimensions Profile helps people work from their strengths by identifying their most natural team role, while giving them added appreciation for the contributions of others. Organizations use it to build team unity, foster innovation, and reduce project cycle time.

		Time Mastery Profile®
		In today's streamlined, fast-moving workplace, it's more important than ever to make the most of every day. The Time Mastery Profile® helps individuals and teams develop customized strategies for improving productivity and increasing efficiency.

		Training
		From biblical to teen audiences, these learning resources help you extend DiSC®'s reach. Training products reinforce learning, retention, and quick application of DiSC® behavioral concepts.

		Work Expectations Profile
		The Work Expectations Profile helps employees understand and manage their work expectations. Why? Because people with well-defined expectations are more productive and enjoy greater job satisfaction. Organizations use it to facilitate performance reviews and help people adjust to organizational change.

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		DiSC ® Talk! Key to DiSC ® Dimensions of Behavior
		The DiSC® Talk! Key to DiSC® Dimensions of Behavior is an easy-to-use reference card that leads telephone professionals quickly through the DiSC® process on the phone. It is to be used with the DiSC® Talk! Action Planner.
		US $6.00

		Hit the Mark Game Supplies
		The Hit the Mark Game supports and enhances Team Dimensions Profile training sessions. Game supplies include game sticks, star stickers, chips, ruler, and one score pad.
		US $32.50

		DiSC ® PPSS General Characteristics Report Supplemental Report: Approach to Managing Others
		The Approach to Managing Others report is one of several DiSC® PPSS Supplemental Reports. This report analyzes the respondent's management style and behavior toward subordinates. Leadership styles can vary greatly, so this report helps identify the tendencies and habits of someone with this style who is in a position of authority. Among the topics that this six-page report examines are the respondent's communication techniques and delegating skills. The potential benefits and limitations of the respondent's style in these key areas are analyzed. How the respondent directs and develops people is also a focus of this report.
		US $12.40

		DiSC ® Classic 2 Plus
		A new expanded DiSC® report - This report combines the DiSC® Classic 2 narrative report with the power of the supplemental reports that are currently available with the DiSC® PPSS report. This new ‘Plus’ report allows you to print the narrative report and up to six supplemental reports for a 20 credit charge.
		US $62.00

		Discovering Diversity Profile ®
		Explore Diversity Issues in Four Key Areas The Discovering Diversity Profile® helps employees learn how they respond to workforce diversity issues and where they need to develop increased understanding. It is the foundation on which effective communication, acceptance, and teamwork can be built.

		Discovering Diversity Profile ® Group Report
		The Group Report provides a snapshot of the group in four key areas of diversity development. Facilitators and trainers use it to quickly zero in on the needs of the participants, the group, and the organization. All the information is anonymous, so the report can be used as a facilitation tool while safeguarding the confidentiality of the respondents.
		US $46.50

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