DISC at Mikeyfest

[Jim Pemberton]

I see that Jim Bardwell is doing a presentation at MF that will explain how to understand personality styles using a system commonly called "DISC".

If you want to know why the best cleaner you know won't sell add ons....go to this program

If you want to know why the cleaner who adds on the most work seems to miss spots...go to this program

If you want ways to understand why some customers seem to "get you" and others can't stand you..and visa versa...go to this program.

If you want to know why Marty gets annoyed at Mark Saiger's videos ...go to this program

I could go on and on ....just go.

I use this system in my work and even interpersonal relationships nearly every day.

 

[hogjowl]

Our you could just ask ME!

 

[Old Coastie]

What?

 

[Desk Jockey]

You don't get it either Stephen? I thought it was southern tawk.
Imagine that!

 

[Old Coastie]

I meant 'ask him what?'

 

[hogjowl]

Idiots

 

[Nomad74]

I went through this DISC training with Howard Partridge at one of his marketing seminars in Houston. Can I skip this day and go play with a Vortex instead?

 

[Old Coastie]

Hey now, you flatter him and insult me at the same time?

 

[hogjowl]

He cant be nice to two rednecks at once.

 

[Old Coastie]

No, I'm asking you why you'd insult me and flatter Rick at the same time?

God, it's like pulling teeth, if any of yall had any.

 

[Mikey P]

I went through this DISC training with Howard Partridge at one of his marketing seminars in Houston. Can I skip this day and go play with a Vortex instead?

Were you unclassifiable like me?

 

[Desk Jockey]

I went through this DISC training with Howard Partridge at one of his marketing seminars in Houston. Can I skip this day and go play with a Vortex instead?

Ohh hell you're a personal friend of Howards? Why didn't you say so. Sure skip the whole thing if ya want ta.

Just leave the cash on the table!

 

[Nomad74]

Were you unclassifiable like me?

Funny yes, I scored very high on the Dominance and Influence, but extremely low on the Steadiness and Compliance. I'll sit through it and be a good boy, but inside I will be inching to leave.

 

[Desk Jockey]

You feeling better yet?

 

[Nomad74]

You feeling better yet?

Yes, I did two more jobs today and coughed my way through them. I'm over everything but this damn cough is sticking with me. I can only stick so many cough drops in my mouth at one time.

 

[Mikey P]

Funny yes, I scored very high on the Dominance and Influence, but extremely low on the Steadiness and Compliance. I'll sit through it and be a good boy, but inside I will be inching to leave.

I'll have a second class for retards like you and me who can't focus or sit still.

 

[Nomad74]

I'll have a second class for retards like you and me who can't focus or sit still.

Please tell me it doesn't require me climbing into a rug drying centrifuge.

 

[NobleCarpetCleaners]

The DISC thing yer talking about can sorta backfire. My previous employer swore by it and crammed it down us every 5 years. Created more confusion then it did help us at the work force level. Folks that had climbed the management ladder who were identified and non "people friendly" were struggling as middle managers of the work force. The backfire was that we almost never made changes in people moving to a job or area (for which they were better suited) voluntarily. We'd all take the tests together (broken into groups) all see one anothers results (and I mean from the top down) then chuckle about so and so needing to back to being a technician and the lead secretary should actually be the maintenance manager or even the general manager. And some of us were diagnosed as well balanced in all areas and should rule the world.

In the end my experience was it was not really that funny at all. If individuals answer all those questions honestly and the overall theory about the results are true then someone has to call some shots and make some changes. Folks who are struggling in jobs descriptions need to be tweaked or moved (or sadly terminated). Others need the opportunity to further educate and get promoted. Mostly what you see is the Peter Principle; a subject for another illuminating and riveting thread...

 

[NobleCarpetCleaners]

omg, just looked online. There is a plethora of these these tests free online. If I may encourage any curious shoppers here, take these tests in the comfort of your home computer and keep the results to yo self. Remember planet of the apes, "you may not like what you find"

 

[hogjowl]

No, he's not referring to the male anatomy.

Although the principle is older than some of you dicks that hang out here!

 

[Mikey P]

Jon Don are big believers

Let's see what Yeadon thinks..

 

[Mikey P]

My wife the JDub loved Jim's presentation.

I would have thought that it would have been dismissed as demon worship..

 

[Lee Stockwell]

It's valid.

However its interpretation is often too subjective, or subtly biased.

Regarding the "Peter Principle", also valid, you see it in most hierarchies. If you are competent at your job, you get promoted until you reach a level where you are finally incompetent. There you stay. Explains many organizations.

 

[Desk Jockey]

Although the principle is older than some of you dicks that hang out here!

Why do you have to speak of dicks and hanging out?
I no longer want to associate with you...
WAIT!!!!! I never wanted to in the first place!