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The latest buzzword in business performance seems to be Quiet Quitting.  

The DISCy Chicks did their research to see if this was really a thing.  Quiet Quitting seems a lot like an employee engagement issue, so we went straight to the experts at Gallup to see what they say.

Listen in as the Chicks talk about this trend in the workforce in the U.S.  Did you know that 50% of the workforce, according to Gallup, is not engaged. Is this the same as Quite Quitters?  The DISCy Chicks reveal their results.

Employees who are not engaged mentally or psychologically with their work, and just doing only what is required of their job. This should be raising great concern for leaders of any business! There is another category called actively disengaged. It's those employees that are very verbal about their discontent and spreading their misery with their co-workers, which is 18% of employees. This leaves 32% of your employees truly engaged in their work. Listen to the suggestions offered by Martha and Cindy to help you identify and re-engage any quiet quitters you might have. One of our solutions includes assessments that can enable you to discover the relative engagement of your employees to then determine a path forward for higher engagement and productivity 

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The DISCy Chicks were on the road this week, attending the annual Converge Conference for TTISI, our assessment partner! This was the first live conference since 2020 and Martha and Cindy enjoyed spending time with each other and all the other partners across the globe that use assessments to solve strategic people issues, like hiring, onboarding, and training to improve individual and team communication and collaboration. 

Listen up as Cindy interviews some of our colleagues about their favorite assessments and the many ways they use them to bring winning solutions to their clients.  Pardon the background noise,  but worth it to be conducting live "man on the street" interviews.

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Cindy and Martha are zooming into the next episode about your leadership team! Every time you add a new member to your leadership team, the dynamics of the team shift. The DISCy Chicks cover Tuckman's Teaming Model that every team goes through including  Forming, Storming, Norming and Performing. The right assessments can enable your team to progress through these stages quicker and less painfully.

Lastly, we cover Patrick Lencioni's Five Dysfunctions of a Team so you can better understand how strategic use of assessments can better enable effective communication and collaboration. Listen to these five dysfunctions that your own leadership team may be suffering from and remedies for these dysfunctions. 

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Does your business need a people strategy?

The DISCy Chicks are baaack following a summer break! Season 5's theme is how you as a leader or CEO of your business can strategically use assessments to enable organization-wide success with your employees, customers, and vendors. Cindy and Martha are zooming out this season to take a strategic look at how assessments can help you run the people side of your business.

Do you have communication systems in place to ensure an effective flow of company information to and from your employees?  Do you have solutions in place to guide your hiring and how you strategically build  a high functioning team?  

What if something goes wrong (and it will): your sales representative offends your best client, your star employee has fallen from stardom, or that vendor that is not getting products that you desperately need when you need them.   What do you do when there is conflict between important team members? Assessments can help you build a framework to handle your people issues during critical touchpoints in your business lifecycle.

We are thinking BIG this season and we invite your questions and comments.

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Apply DISC Watching Your Favorite TV Shows and Movies

Watching the characters in your favorite TV shows is a great way to practice identifying DISC styles.  The DISCy Chicks changed things up a bit and came up with our favorite examples of DISC styles straight from our favorite TV shows and movies,

Want to learn how to translate people's behavior using the DISC behavior style? Listen to Episode 12 and learn as Cindy and Martha talk you through...

• What each style is most grateful for
• The DISCy Chicks' favorite TV shows (The Office, The Big Bang Theory, Star Wars, Star Trek, Friends, Seinfeld) and the primary styles of the main characters.  
• The DISCy Chicks' own Mt. Rushmore of iconic characters' behavior style

Remember DISC is the science of OBSERVABLE behavior. As we talk and laugh through the shows and people you like (or don't like), who do you relate more easily to and who is very different from you. By doing this you are learning the language of DISC! 

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Join us this week as we interview Dana Cain, Director of Finance and Accounting for JES Holdings, a fully integrated real estate development business (that is a client of Martha's). Dana shares her story of becoming a finance and accounting leader and how she intentionally utilizes DISC Behaviors and Driving Forces in managing her team and relationships across the JES organization. 

Listen to some of her examples of applying this DISC tool to her selection and hiring process within her own department as well as introducing her leadership team and staff to DISC with teaming sessions that Martha facilitated over the past several years. This has enabled improved communication among her team members and has given her leaders tools to manage their employees performance on a day-in-day out basis. If an issue arises with an employee, they reach for their copy of the employee's DISC report to prepare for a constructive coaching conversation. 

Do you or your organization need help with leadership development, team building or selection and hiring? Listen to Dana's testimony, then reach out and contact us at discychicks.com !!

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Listen to the DISCy Chicks as they share the Emotional Intelligence eBook's tips and tricks that have worked for their clients  to improve the five domains of emotional intelligence. 

Cindy and Martha also share real life client success stories for those who wanted to develop their self-awareness and self-regulation capabilities. Think about what you want to improve with your emotional intelligence and download the eBook from our DISCyChicks website under the resources tab to see what you might find helpful! 

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Join the DISCy Chicks as they interview Stacy Axon, CEO of Aspire and Thrive and business development consultant for our assessment partner TTISI. As a serial entrepreneur, she has found her passion helping people to better understand themselves to pursue their purpose and passion. She believes that we are a whole person, which includes body, mind, spirit, and our emotions, whether we are at work or at home.

Stacy shares some great stories of how knowing your emotions can enable you to "respond to an emotional trigger vs. react to an emotional trigger," as well as tips and tricks when you find yourself in a highly emotional state.

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Cindy and Martha share their wisdom about EQ and leadership. High performance is the hallmark for leaders with high emotional intelligence. So, what does this look like? Effective leaders are trustworthy and show up in a consistent, reliable way and can relate to people that are different from them by meeting each employee where they are. They are also relatable and able to poke fun at themselves. Leaders with high EQ make a point to know their team members and give each employee what they need to be motivated and engaged at work. 

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Cindy and Martha walk you through the Emotional Intelligence domain of motivation. Being motivated by the work itself goes beyond just your paycheck. Some might describe it as your passion. Either way, this results in intrinsic satisfaction. If you don't receive that handful of driving forces, it can lead to lack of engagement and your performance may suffer. 

Tips to help you find more motivation at work are shared in this episode as well. So, how is your motivation at work? 

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