Book description
Use DISC to discover profound hidden patterns of human behavioral style, gain deeper self-awareness, maximize your personal strengths, and influence others more powerfully than ever before! Taking Flight illuminates the proven DISC four-style model of human behavior, and shows how to use it to become a far more effective leader, salesperson, or teacher; revitalize your career; build deeper personal relationships; fully leverage your natural gifts, and empower everyone around you. Drawing on their immense experience coaching executives and training world-class organizations, Merrick Rosenberg and Daniel Silvert introduce DISC through a fable that's quick, fun, and easy-to-understand. You'll discover why you "click" with some people and "clank" with others, and what really drives your decisions and actions. You'll learn exactly how to identify others' behavioral styles and choose the best ways to interact with them. You'll walk through creating a personal action plan for improvement -- and then systematically making the most of your strengths, working around your weaknesses, and supercharging your personal performance! If you're already familiar with DISC, this book will help you use it more effectively than ever before. If you're new to DISC, it will change your life -- just as it has for thousands before you!
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Praise for Taking Flight!
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- Introduction
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Part I: Taking Flight! The Fable
- Chapter 1. Home
- Chapter 2. The Forest Grid
- Chapter 3. The Council
- Chapter 4. An Old Friend
- Chapter 5. The Aftermath
- Chapter 6. If a Tree Falls in the Forest...
- Chapter 7. Reconnaissance
- Chapter 8. The Four Styles
- Chapter 9. Reflection
- Chapter 10. The Awakening
- Chapter 11. The Home Rule
- Chapter 12. The Stakeout
- Chapter 13. The Gathering
- Epilogue. The Power of DISC
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Part II: The DISC Model
- Go Online to Discover Your Style
- The History and Mystery of the Four Styles
- The Four Styles
- People Reading
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Seven Transformative DISC Principles
- Principle 1—Understand Your Own Style
- Principle 2—Recognize the Styles of Others
- Principle 3—Think About Style When Establishing Expectations
- Principle 4—Consider Intention, Not Just Behavior
- Principle 5—Use Your Strengths but Don’t Overuse Them
- Principle 6—Apply the Right Style at the Right Time
- Principle 7—Treat Others How They Need to Be Treated, Not How You Need to Be Treated (The “Home Rule”)
- Part III: Applying the DISC Styles in Your Life
- Appendix: Style Combinations
Product information
- Title: Taking Flight!: Master the DISC Styles to Transform Your Career, Your Relationships...Your Life
- Author(s):
- Release date: November 2012
- Publisher(s): Pearson
- ISBN: 9780133121315
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