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I felt the discussions to be interesting and fact finding about my own behavior, as well as my coworkers.
The benefit of knowing how to determine a personality, will benefit when trying to engage in productive meetings and projects.
I think we can all agree that communication is critical at any organization. The difference between communicating effectively and ineffectively could be the difference between succeeding or failing. Would you mitigate the “communication breakdown variable” if you had the chance?? Well, you do! It’s called DISC.
As a recruiter, the DISC program is a great tool that helps me quickly identify other’s profile to better understand how to communicate effectively for both internal employees and external candidates. John & Darlene are very helpful and responsive, it’s a pleasure working with them.
The DISC program helped me a lot in getting a better understanding in why customers and partners say yes or no to certain proposals. Also internally where my USA colleagues are internal customers and partners, DISC can help you to understand them better and overcome cultural differences. Because these differences are present and if we… Read more “A Better Understanding of Customers”
DISC has been a powerful tool to help me identify the best tools to manage others’ expectations.
I just started my position and off the bat noticed different personalities that I haven’t previously worked with. The DISC profiling really opened my eyes to addressing people differently and giving space when needed. Right after our first meet, I’ve already become aware of how I address certain people so that my “I” doesn’t shine… Read more “Really Opened My Eyes”
DISC was able to help me understand the areas I struggled in and made me think how I could improve them.
The DISC Behavioral Profile system has been very instrumental in helping our sales force identify individual personality types as they meet with prospective clients. By discovering the individuals “strengths and weakness”, the sales person is able to create an effective game plan when interacting and selling the prospect. The same can be said for the… Read more “A More Productive Sales Team”
John really connected the dots and showed my team the value that DISC has to offer. He armed us with the tools to be stronger communicators with our own clients.
I’ve completed DISC assessment at other companies which helped understand my strengths and weaknesses, and general guidance how to interact with colleagues that are on the DISC spectrum. The difference with John was the tailored advice on how best to present and work together with my core group (We have all completed the DISC at… Read more “Tailored Advice”
Completing the DISC assessment is an eye opening experience into learning about yourself and is often the first step towards discovering your own self-awareness. It gets you thinking about how you interact with everyone and also how others interact with you. Overall this can be a very important tool to help build stronger relationships with… Read more “A More Effective Communicator”
DISC is the perfect foundation for building a professional development program to strengthen every member in your organization. Using DISC as a foundation, you can enhance communication skills, make conflict productive, develop cohesive teams, grow sales, strengthen customer service, gain management strategies and develop leadership skills. DISC can help you meet your goals to increase… Read more “The Perfect Foundation”
The DISC assessment, profiles, and interactions have provided numerous benefits for me and throughout the greater company environment. Being able to assess personalities and interact accordingly definitely improves communication and the overall workplace environment.
DISC has helped me appreciate my direct reports’ need for order and routine. This is a weakness of mine and we complement each other well!
I have been a trainer for many years now. I would not have believed that “one” DISC Behavior, 2.5 hour learning workshop could hold everyone’s attention and bring out the needed individual and team discussions that took place. It was awesome!
Understanding DiSC behavioral profiles has helped me tremendously in both my personal and professional relationships. It’s taught me how to be less judgmental and more tolerant of different behavioral styles. It’s also a great team-building tool!
DiSC is an essential tool for becoming a more effective leader. It helped me better understand others, enhance communication and build stronger relationships.
DISC is a great tool to help you understand, not only your own communication and behavioral style, but that of others as well. A fundamental knowledge of DISC will help you build and maintain strong, long-term relationships.
Knowing my DISC profile has helped me take the emotion variable out of my business relationships so I am more focused on my work and streamlining processes. John M. Ruh and Associates provided fantastic insight into the four profiles with a colorful, printed document I continue to refer to again and again.
Thanks to John for a great 90-minute workshop, which put into focus DISC profiles, and instantly improved our ability to communicate and work together.
We have an organization that is running fast with multiple initiatives, diverse resources, and aggressive business goals. DISC has allowed my team to significantly improve our communication in order to move our business forward. I’d strongly recommend this tool to any business leader that is looking to improve their team dynamics.
In working as a team lead, DISC Profiles has allowed me to cater my message while coaching new employees. By understanding “what makes them tick,” DISC Profiles have facilitated the new employees ramp up process as well as allowed us to develop an effective working relationship.
I was completely skeptical while taking the DISC test but it hit the nail on the head – it defined my communications style better than I think I could have. Being cognizant of the styles and how to engage them will help me communicate better with others.
The DISC assessment made me realize how to properly approach my coworkers. It is a really helpful tool to realize how every individual is different and to respect their natural born style to communicate.
In the past when I took a personality test I read the results, smiled and nodded, then quickly moved on with my life. This time was different. John helped bring the implications of DISC to life for me and helped me understand personality and communication in a new way. It was very impactful!
Our sales team uses the DISC behavior tool to better understand what motivates potential clients to partner with us. Our leadership team also benefits from DISC to better relate with their team members and each other.
DISC was critical in tailoring my management style to promote the highest level of engagement and success from team members.
I have now used the DISC tool within two different organizations with amazing results. In both cases we were able to greatly improve communication, management and performance at all levels by understanding how each team member processed information and requests. It also allowed us to launch new initiatives and drive cultural change more effectively as… Read more “DISC Greatly Improves Communication”
With my understanding of the various personalities using DISC I have learned how to better “read” people and it has made me more effective in my business and personal life. Knowing how to respond in certain situations is extremely useful.
By using the DISC Profile, we have discovered an objective way to understand how different candidates are ‘wired,’ for lack of a better word. This helps us match the specific individual’s strengths with the tasks of the job as well as helps us maintain their compatibility with our corporate culture. That has significantly helped reduce… Read more “Understanding How Different Candidates are Wired”
This was my first time taking the DISC assessment and I must say it was on point with my personality. I thought it was very interesting and found it to be helpful, not to mention the great customer service I experienced through my assessment. I highly recommend taking DISC whether it’s for your career or… Read more “It Was On Point With My Personality”
DISC is a great way to learn about yourself, coworkers and other people in your life, and their internal “wiring” or communication style. If used correctly, you can gain a better understanding of not only your own, but other’s behaviors and motivations which will help you improve the way you interact with those around you.… Read more “Helped My Day-to-Day Interactions”
When you answer every question honestly, the results are astoundingly accurate! DISC has helped me learn how to communicate with different people my your team seamlessly which makes for a better work environment!
DISC is a unique organizational tool that allows teams to better understand how to effectively communicate between each other. The first breakthrough improvement DISC provides to our team is self-awareness; how do we communicate our needs, and how do we respond to the needs of others. This is of paramount importance to high performance teams. … Read more “A Unique Organizational Tool”
DISC is helping me see the different behavioral traits of our clients and their employee’s. It’s been helpful to use it around my work colleagues as well.
Disc has been very useful for me throughout my career. It has helped me in my self-development, in the development of high performing synergistic teams and in hiring the right people for the job.
Using DISC to know their behavioral traits and communication style has helped me to have more effective interaction and an added sensitivity with, and for, the folks I collaborate with throughout a given day.
This was a very insightful tool in understanding your management style as well as offering helpful suggestions on communicating with others in the organization based upon their behavioral tendencies.
The DISC assessment provided our senior team with valuable insight into ourselves as well as other members of the team. We are using this information to guide us in developing an enhanced communication process within our company.
Disc has improved my knowledge of not only my own required communication style but how better to identify the needs of those I have to communicate with. It has provided leveling to the communication field!
I learned DISC in the eighties. Since then, it has played some role in every single relationship I have developed, mostly around motivational cues.
The entertainment and curiosity satisfaction becomes obvious very quickly especially within groups that are familiar with each other. Learning this language of behavior is a great tool for understanding “how” to get to the ” what” you want but perhaps the best “ah ha” moment is learning how others perceive yourself. I recommend adding this… Read more “Learning this Language of Behavior”
I truly enjoyed taking the DISC assessment. It was uncanny how accurate it was. The DISC assessment taught me how to interact with others whose personalities are different than mine. In addition it gave me insight and understanding into my co-workers responses to me so that I can communicate better with them.
DISC has helped me be more aware of how to work with others.
I am excited to use the DISC Behavioral Profile system when I start my procedure training with the production and office areas. It has given me great insight on how to best convey the material so ALL employees are engaged and excited about the process. I believe the skills that I have learned will definitely… Read more “Excited to Use DISC”
Having insight into how people with different DISC profiles see the world and interact in it has been helpful in my professional and personal life. My life is easier when I can see things from another person’s perspective and evaluate a situation based on that.
The DISC program has been helpful with my own self-awareness as well as providing a bit of insight into all key stakeholders within my new work group.
Using DISC makes recruiting easier and more effective from beginning to end. In writing a recruitment description, you can gear it for finding a ‘D’ who responds to a challenge or for finding an ‘S’ who will respond to a secure position featuring long-term employment. In doing an interview, once you understand a candidate’s profile,… Read more “DISC Makes Recruiting Easier”
In today’s work environment, there is great emphasis put on building a culture where people can flourish. DISC has given me the understanding of the different behavioral traits and how to properly manage them in an effort to create this culture.
DISC provided me some keen insight into my own workstyle, but just as important helped me identify better ways to communicate with my team.
DISC opened my eyes to the differences in my employees and the need to treat each one individually.
Early on when we rolled out DiSC® to the Sales Department, your ‘Sales Closing Tips’ were extremely helpful in our DiSC sales program. First, we educated them on what the DiSC concepts are. Then, we taught them how to read and recognize the profile of the customer on the phone. The important piece was for… Read more “Extremely Helpful to the Sales Department”
When communicating with your internal or external customers, you must speak the language they understand. Personality types are like languages, and an accurate DISC profile provides the translation tools allowing you to maximize the impact of your message.
After having our employees and managers complete DISC, ownership was better able to put people in a position to succeed by giving them the tools to best suit their skill set.
We at first were skeptical of the DISC process. After taking the DISC and reviewing the valuable one on one feedback, as a group we have become believers in the strength of that process.
DISC assessment is a very beneficial tool that improves the communication within an organization. By helping us understand the difference in our behavior styles we are able to communicate effectively as a management team, internally and with our customers. John Ruh provides a great DISC assessment tool that supports personal and business growth.
I loved experiencing the feedback on DISC not only to understand myself better, but also to help me understand how others are different than me and how I can adjust how I handle different people/situations depending on their style as well! I also use DISC to notice where I might need to “tone down” a… Read more “DISC Helps Adjust to Different People”
The DISC behavioral tool helps one understand how people behave, what motivates them and how they interact with others. By utilizing and understanding the DISC one develops better relationships.
Using the DiSC has helped in many ways in my business as a recruiter. It helps me understand differences in such a ‘user-friendly’ way that my ability to assess clients’ needs is so accurate that I work much more effectively and efficiently when hiring for them. It also is wonderful information to apply when interviewing… Read more “DiSC Has Helped in Many Ways”
Learning the DISC tool has helped me recognize different the behavioral types and how to best interact with both co-workers and clients. The DISC tool provided me guidance on how to identify the DISC types, understand what motivates each type, and learn how to improve communication while appreciating people’s differences. Since our company has applied… Read more “What Motivates Each Type”
In 2005, after a thorough process including DISC and other assessments, I hired a controller, Bob, for my $12-million-annual-revenue manufacturing business. Despite early evidence that the staffing decision was not a fit, I suffered with it for two years, determined to make it work. In 2007, I made the long-overdue decision to go back to… Read more “A Perfect Fit”
Great tool. This has helped me become a better manager by giving exact examples of how to communicate with the different personality types, as well as learning more about how to improve my own communications in the business setting.
The DISC Analysis is a tool our company uses to communicate with employees during their monthly One on One meetings with their Manager. It also provides us with beneficial information on whether an employee is “On the right seat of the Bus”.
I have found the DISC tool to be invaluable in providing managers with insight into their leadership styles. I use it with all my leadership teams and in executive coaching engagements.
DISC has been very helpful to me in understanding myself and others better as well as how to better communicate with people. I know to be more patient, read people and then communicate in a way with which they will be comfortable. It has helped me both in business as well as in my personal… Read more “Better Communication with People”
As one of the newest members of my organization, (I have been here for 3 months), I was pleased to have the opportunity to utilize the DISC analysis and tools to understand the different personality types in my new environment. Culture is and always has been one of the highest priorities for me in a… Read more “Promote Teamwork and a Team Oriented Culture”
Really enjoyed the DISC training. Fun and informative. Can’t wait to integrate the system in my training and dealings with customers.
I think the DISC profile workshop is great in acknowledging different work personalities and helping everyone realize that with proper communication and understanding one another you can effectively resolve conflicts or issue before they arise, resulting in progress as a team.
Running through my business life I always assumed that the experience would one day give me enough talent to influence others to get the results I wanted. Having the knowledge of DISC and understanding how to speak to each client and employee’s language has been the equivalent of being given a shortcut to the championship… Read more “A Shortcut to the Championship Round”
DISC is a tool that every organization must have in their toolbox. It provides an easy way to discuss behaviors and understand ourselves and others. If done well, it gives us a powerful advantage in dealing with real client situations and improving internal teamwork.
The DISC tool has helped increase my emotional intelligence and awareness of the different personalities in our team. We continue to leverage that awareness by speaking to our team members in their preferred language, resulting in reduced conflict and helping us accomplish objectives much faster.
My experience with DISC and John Ruh was extremely positive. John helped me to understand and adapt to colleagues to improve a successful team environment which adds to our company and its core values. John and his insight helped to improve my second level thinking and approach to Customer Service.
I have found it was a positive eye opener as I thought that the way I was analyzed would have had a different outcome. I see that it is a great experience for me to have a better outlook for myself in personal and business aspects. I will be utilizing tools new tools in the… Read more “A Positive Eye Opener”
I use the DISC in two ways. 1) When selling to future clients, I ask some upfront questions to the decision maker, or a sales influencer regarding the decision maker, to get ideas on what type of personality they have regarding the DISC. Then, I speak to that person the way they would like to… Read more “Use DISC in Two Ways”
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