MAC/LPN PROGRAM:

DiSC® Assessment Workshop with Berri Wells Wilmore (New Date) Monday, June 19, 2006, 8:30AM - Noon

(For Review of Meeting, see below.)

The ability to interact effectively with people can sometimes mean the difference between success and failure in our career and work life. Effective interaction begins with an accurate perception of oneself - both strengths and weaknesses. The DiSC® System measures the intensity a person brings to each of the following areas of behavior:

D = Dominance - Challenge
      How you respond to problems and challenges.
I = Influence - Contacts
      How you influence others to your point of view.
S = Steadiness - Consistency
      How you respond to the pace of the environment.
C = Compliance - Constraints
      How you respond to rules and procedures set by others.

The position of each DiSC® factor provides useful behavioral information that can provide beneficial insights for you and the people around you. The DiSC® assessment tool can be used for a variety of purposes: Team Building, Career Development, Leadership Development, and Mentoring. DiSC® can help you to improve communications, better understand your role in relationships, create team understanding and unity, and manage others more effectively.

Our speaker, Berri Wells Wilmore, Senior Partner, Turning Point Solutions, provides individuals and teams the opportunity to grow personally and professionally through the use of Inscape Publishing's DiSC® Personal Profile System. Join us to see how DiSC® can enhance your use of assessments when people understand their behaviors.

Review of Meeting:

Report of Program on June 19, 2006

Our speaker, Benedette Cooper, President and founder of TeamLogic, LLC, gave us an engaging and lively presentation of the use of Inscape Publishing's DiSC® Personal Profile System. We were given the opportunity to take the DISC® online and get an interpretation from the online program to help us understand ourselves better and how to enhance our use of assessments with our clients.
Evaluations indicated that participants particularly liked the opportunity to network and reconnect; the energy, enthusiasm and humor of the presenter; new insights into the assessment tool; the comfortable room and good pastries; good use of examples and video; having the opportunity to take the assessment before hand; and other positive reactions. Suggestions for the future were: to learn more on how different types work together; to have handouts/booklet describing types; an exercise on How to Work With Others with Different Styles; more time for exercises; more handouts on the background of DISC; focus on career counseling; comparison with Myers-Briggs; more time. It's evident that we will want to have another presentation on the DISC® soon!