The Wake Up Eager Podcast

Overview of Episode #80 ---

• What was eye-opening for Anne about TriMetrix and the assessment certification process.
• How to use TriMetrix to become a great teacher, leader, and coach.
• The importance of developing self and other awareness.
• Contact Priceless Professional Development: 770-578-6976, [email protected] or www.pricelessprofessional.com
• To see the show notes and get the transcript for this episode, go to: www.pricelessprofessional.com/anne

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Topic 1: An Overview of TriMetrix

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Topic 2: What Sets TriMetrix Apart From Other Tools?

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Topic 3: What is Your Lifelong Passion?

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Topic 4: How is the TriMetrix Assessment Different From Other Assessments?

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Topic 5: Suzie's Favorite Statement - "A Great Teacher"

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Topic 6: Anne's Reaction to "A Great Teacher"

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Topic 7: How Has Understanding the Motivators Helped You Understand Others and Yourself? Examples.

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Topic 8: Weaponizing DISC

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Topic 9: Advice About the TriMetrix Certifcation

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Topic 10: Anne's Biggest Influencer

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Topic 11: Books & Training Programs That Have Been Instrumental to Anne

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Topic 12: When You Think of the Word Successful, Who is the First Person That Comes to Mind?

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Topic 13: Fun Get To Know Anne Questions

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Topic 14: Last Bit of Advice or Wisdom

Overview of Episode #79 ---

• Learn how this organization kept employees connected and engaged throughout COVID.
• Learn about motivation and how you can understand "What Puts Gas in YourTank."
• Learn about the tools and influences that have helped Rebecca become an effective and happy female Executive.
• Contact Priceless Professional Development: 770-578-6976, [email protected] or www.pricelessprofessional.com
• To see the show notes and get the transcript for this episode, go to: www.pricelessprofessional.com/rebecca

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Topic 1: About Rebecca Waits

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Topic 2: How to Keep Employees Engaged

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Topic 3: "Know to Grow" Meetings

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Topic 4: Engagement Surveys

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Topic 5: Open Communication and Empathy

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Topic 6: Hiring Over Zoom

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Topic 7: How the Motivators Certification Process Resonates with Rebecca

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Topic 8: Coaching Using the Assessments

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Topic 9: Rebecca's Background & Influencers

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Topic 10: Tips For Working With Executives as a Female

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Topic 11: Books & Training Programs That Have Been Instrumental to Rebecca

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Topic 12: When You Think of the Word Successful, Who is the First Person That Comes to Mind?

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Topic 13: Fun Get To Know Rebecca Questions

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Topic 14: Last Bit of Advice or Wisdom

Overview of Episode #78 ---

• Uncover an unconscious thought pattern that could be limiting personal and professional success and satisfaction.
• Learn about the 3 stages of capitalism, and more about Axiology and Robert S. Hartman
• Discover 4 key resources and one question that can help you put people first.
• Contact Priceless Professional Development: 770-578-6976, [email protected] or www.pricelessprofessional.com
• To see the show notes and get the transcript for this episode, go to: www.pricelessprofessional.com/capitalism

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Topic 1: "People Aren't Rational Actors" – What are we talking about? Why?

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Topic 2: Definition of Rational Actor Theory and Other Theories

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Topic 3: Hartman's 3 Stages of Capitalism

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Topic 4: Systemic, Extrinsic and Intrinsic

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Topic 5: Putting People First

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Topic 6: Actions Leaders Could Take for More Satisfied Employees

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Topic 7: The Deliberately Developmental Organization

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Topic 8: The Biggest Impediment to Achieving Employee Satisfaction - To Know that We Don't Know

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Topic 9: Idea That People Aren't Rational Actors

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Topic 10: About Cliff Hurst – How He Found Hartman

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Topic 11: What to Consider Doing Differently

Overview of Episode #77 ---

• Help you easily understand and apply Axiology without hours & hours of study.
• Help you easily explain Axiology to others using 5 basic tools & new way of explaining it.
• Help you use Axiology results in interviews, effective coaching & super-charging your own development.
• Contact Priceless Professional Development: 770-578-6976, [email protected] or www.pricelessprofessional.com
• To see the show notes and get the transcript for this episode, go to: www.pricelessprofessional.com/easy

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Topic 1: Definition of Axiology

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Topic 2: What Makes Axiology Different From Other Assessments/Tests?

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Topic 3: Axiology in the Car Analogy

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Topic 4: What to Expect When Taking the Axiology Section of an Assessment

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Topic 5: How We Can More Easily Explain Axiology – Explanation from Art Ellis

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Topic 6: The 3 Dimensions of Axiology

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Topic 7: 5 Axiology Tools

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Topic 8: Axiology Analogy - Image

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Topic 9: Crafting a Very Specific Path

Overview of Episode #76 ---

• Learn about life and Axiology from a caring, humble, and highly regarded intellectual who was a peer of RSH at University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
• Learn about the power of staying curious, making connections, and having a lot of interests.
• Learn more about Axiology, what it is and how to apply it to your work and home life.
• Contact Priceless Professional Development: 770-578-6976, [email protected] or www.pricelessprofessional.com
• To see the show notes and get the transcript for this episode, go to: www.pricelessprofessional.com/hartmanrem

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Topic 1: How Did You Become Aware of Hartman's Work? Why Have You Been Committed to it Throughout Your Career?

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Topic 2: How Would You Explain The Theory of Value? Why Does it Matter?

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Topic 3: How Has Knowing the Dimensions, Systemic, Extrinsic, Intrinsic, Impacted You Personally? How Has it Changed You?

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Topic 4: How Did You Come From a Small Town in Georgia, to Being a Professor, Writing Books, Being an Editor and Being Really Admired by so Many People in the Philosophical World?

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Topic 5: What Were the Best and Hardest Parts of Being a Philosophy Professor?

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Topic 6: Where is Axiology Going?

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Topic 7: Do You Believe That if People Understood the Dimensions and Ordered Their Life in That Way, That it Would Change the World?

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Topic 8: How Would You Summarize The Book, Revolution Against War, to Somebody?

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Topic 9: Cliff Hurst on Rem Edwards' Influence.

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Topic 10: Who Most Influenced You and Your Career?

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Topic 11: Doug Lawrence on Rem Edwards' Influence.

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Topic 12: When You Think of the Word Successful, Who is the First Person That Comes to Mind?

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Topic 13: What Are Some Things That You Do, Mind, Body and Spirit, That You Can Share?

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Topic 14: What Advice Would You Give Your 25 Year-Old Self?

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Topic 15: If You Could Put a Billboard Up Anywhere in the Country, Where Would You Put it and What Would it Say?

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Topic 16: What is One Last Bit of Wisdom or Advice You Would Like Everybody to Take Away?

Overview of Episode #75 ---

• Learn from someone who has studied, taught, and written about Axiology for 55 years.
• Learn why value systems, not personality determine judgment and work success.
• Learn more about how Hartman's three dimensions (Systemic, Extrinsic, Intrinsic) are applicable to all areas of life and can be applied to almost anything.
• Contact Priceless Professional Development: 770-578-6976, [email protected] or www.pricelessprofessional.com
• To see the show notes and get the transcript for this episode, go to: www.pricelessprofessional.com/hartmansteve

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Topic 1: How Did You Become Aware of Hartman's Work? Why Are You Committed to It?

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Topic 2: How is Axiology the "Swiss Army Knife" That Does Everything? How Is It Applicable? How Do You Explain It to Clients?

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Topic 3: "Value Systems, Not Personality, Determine Judgment and Work Success."

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Topic 4: The Word Personality.

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Topic 5: The Judgment Index.

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Topic 6: Stress Management Related to Axiology.

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Topic 7: Books or Training Programs That Have Been Extremely Influential.

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Topic 8: Some of The Top Things You Do Around Waking Up Eager For Your Mind, Body and Spirit?

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Topic 9: If You Could Have a Billboard Anywhere, Where Would It Be and What Would You Say?

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Topic 10: Last Bit of Advice or Wisdom That You Would Like to Share From Our Discussion About Axiology.

Overview of Episode #74 ---

• Learn about Axiology and Robert S. Hartman through someone who studied under and was coached by Hartman, and how and why it was a life changing experience.
• See how relevant Axiology is to the entire world today: In making good value decisions, overcoming addiction, living better, profit sharing, international relations and around nuclear war.
• Be inspired has you learn more about Art's Wake Up Eager life.
• Contact Priceless Professional Development: 770-578-6976, [email protected] or www.pricelessprofessional.com
• To see the show notes and get the transcript for this episode, go to: www.pricelessprofessional.com/hartmanart

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Topic 1: How Did You Become Aware of Hartman's Work? Why Did You Spend Part of Your Life Committed to His Work in Various Ways?

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Topic 2: What Struck You About the Hartman Value Profile?

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Topic 3: About the Publishing of Hartman's Work.

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Topic 4: How Would You Describe Dr. Robert S. Hartman?

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Topic 5: How is Hartman's Work Relevant Today?

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Topic 6: How Have You Used Hartman's Work? How Have You Applied It Formally Or Informally?

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Topic 7: How Would You Describe Axiology to Someone Who Doesn't Know Anything About It? What is Some of the Language You Use?

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Topic 8: Getting to Know Art Ellis.

Overview of Episode #73 ---

• Learn how and why a former nun turned organizational consultant found and embraced Axiology and the Hartman Value Profile.
• Hear real world and work applications of Axiology in employee development.
• Follow along and become inspired by KT's joyous and ever evolving life.
• Contact Priceless Professional Development: 770-578-6976, [email protected] or www.pricelessprofessional.com
• To see the show notes and get the transcript for this episode, go to: www.pricelessprofessional.com/hartmankt

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Topic 1: How Did You Become Aware of Hartman's Work and Why You Are Committed to Sharing it With Others?

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Topic 2: How Does Hartman's Assessment "Work?"

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Topic 3: What Are Your Thoughts on the DISC Assessment, the Weaponizing of DISC?

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Topic 4: Why Do Leaders Want to Do the Hartman Assessment Again and Again?

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Topic 5: How Do You Explain the Hartman Assessment to People?

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Topic 6: How Have You Used Hartman's Assessment in the Different Aspects of Your Life?

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Topic 7: How Did You End Up Working For the "Big Food Company?"

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Topic 8: How Has Hartman's Work Impacted Your Life?

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Topic 9: What is it About the Book Freedom to Live, That Touched Your Students? Why Did They Love It?

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Topic 10: Getting to Know K.T. Connor.

Overview of Episode #72 ---

• Why self-discovery and self-worth matter more than a degree and good grades.
• How the Student TriMetrix Assessments helps students grow into a role that makes them happy AND pays the bills.
• How The Genius Project and Awesome Project exercises leads to a healthy ego and a true sense of self.
• Insight into Indigo Education Company Founders own Wake Up Eager life.
• Contact Priceless Professional Development: 770-578-6976, [email protected] or www.pricelessprofessional.com
• To see the show notes and get the transcript for this episode, go to: www.pricelessprofessional.com/studenttrimetrix

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Topic 1: Why Getting a Sense of Self-worth and Self-discovery Matters So Much. Why This is Not Highlighted More?

• Two favorite quotes from Sheri's book
• How do you know yourself?
• How do you understand other people?
• How do you work on your mental health?
• How do you cope in a world where you have every single piece of information in your phone and find the exact information you want and distill that information into something that is meaningful or matters to you?
• Education that is focused on the mind and the head and giving information to students is really not complete and not nearly adequate for the digital age that we are currently in.

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Topic 2: Examples of Insights Where You Have Helped Adults Begin to Embrace This Idea of Self-discovery Matters, Sense of Self-worth Matters, So That They Can Make That Shift.

• 2 different pendulums.

1. Families really do believe that you have to go to the best schools and get the best majors in order to make it in life.
2. It does not matter, you don't have to be practical, just follow your passion. And if you follow your passion, the money will come.

• That might be your passion, but it really does not match with what the needs are of the job.
• What are your dispositions? What are your motivations? What are your skills? What is the best way to get those skills in a way that allows you to have a job that makes you happy and pays the bills?
• Family example – Carpenter son.
• Indigo takes the middle road where you are matching up the practical skills with some of the passion and then opening new opportunities that families really would not have thought of.
• Helps a parent accept and see their child for who he/she is in a positive light as opposed to who they wish they were.

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Topic 3: What Do You Hear Are the Biggest Concerns, Reservations or Unrealistic Expectations From the Parents, Adults or Teachers When You Are in the Schools Around This Process?

• Misconception - "Well, kids don't know themselves, my child, they don't really know who they are right now, it's not going to come out accurate, it's too boring for them, it takes too long."
• Underestimate how much a child or student are capable of knowing themselves, are capable of answering the questions in a way that the result is insanely accurate and many times more accurate than the adults.
• For the adults, it is getting them to take away their own lenses, their own stories that they have made up about kids and taking the data and trusting it.
• Turnaround story - troublemaker could mean leader.

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Topic 4: The Results Are Insanely Accurate and Oftentimes Are More Accurate Than Adult's Results.

• Young people have less filters about what they're supposed to be.
• Students are used to taking tests in school – The assessment is low stakes, no grades.
• Students tend to be more honest in their answers.
• Adults have developed a false-self or facade that has been with them so long that they can answer the assessment from that perspective and it can turn out not as accurate as the kids.
• With young adults, they're so receptive, a lot less uncomfortable.
• The assessment helps reduce resistance.
• The assessment helps with where they want to go and how to help them.
• Kids are way more open and they really do listen to you.
• "You can change their life, you can literally change their life with one conversation."
• The excitement is that students can know these things about themselves earlier and make even better choices.

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Topic 5: What Are the Top Benefits You Hear From Adults Once Their Teen Has Gone Through the Process?

• They feel like they finally understand their child in a new way and that they can communicate better with them.
• Helpful to understand what motivates their children.

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Topic 6: Exercises From Sheri's Book, Accessing Your Genius.

• The Awesome Project
• The Genius Project

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Topic 7: What Would You Say to People Who Worry About Over Emphasizing Someone's Awesomeness?

• With young people, I feel like you cannot over highlight authentic strengths.
• Know your "Intrinsic Genius."
• The person at work who think they're the best thing ever, it's because they actually never developed an identity when they were young.
• Validating and building people up so that they develop a really healthy ego that is based on truth and who their true self is, is the way to prevent narcissistic behavior.

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Topic 8: Favorite Indigo Success Story

• About a teacher.
• Teacher had been raised and educated in a system of putting kids in certain boxes and trying to make kids the way education wants them to be.
• "I finally get it, Sheri, I finally get it. Like, I'm not supposed to change kids, convincing, trying to convince kids to like science will only make them hate it more. And my job is to see the kids, love the kids and try to relate science to something that matters to them. And maybe they'll remember something about science that's valuable to them when they grow up."

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Topic 9: Taking Indigo Into Schools, Do You Get Pushback or Is It a Mix?

• Schools do not have a lot of budget for self-awareness.
• The kids love it.
• The parents love it.
• The teachers love it because it's what they have always believed about students.
• Tends to make people overall happier.
• They work together better in teams.
• Gives them tools that are not possible any other way.
• There is sometimes a time crunch.
• Getting in is the tough part.

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Topic 10: What Does a Typical Engagement Look Like?

• Students take the assessment Freshman year.
• Kids need more emotional support from our Hartman portion of the assessment.
• What are your kids like coming in?
• How can you partner students with mentors and teachers that really are going to align with them in the school?
• How are you going to help your counselors to really support the students who need the most social emotional support?
• 11th or 12th graders take it to really prepare for that college process.
• Helps students decide which college is a good fit, which majors are a good fit, how to write their college essays.

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Topic 11: What Are the Professional Development Options You Offer?

• When a school purchases students Indigos, we include the teachers Indigos in that because we want it to be a shared experience.
• Teachers get some basic training around how to understand the different DISC and Motivators and use our dashboard.
• A.I. enabled dashboard that gives teachers recommendations of exactly how to support every student and allows them to create automatic teams that are going to work well together, be harmonious.
• More sophisticated trainings for a counselor, which is a certification, that allows them to really become the in school experts on Indigo.

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Topic 12: Getting to Know Sheri Smith

• Who has most influenced you?
• What resources have been most helpful to you? Books, training, programs, education?
• What are some of your top mind, body, spirit activities, actions, that you do that help you create days that cause you to wake up eager and end happy for the day. Mind, body, spirit.
• If you could have one billboard anywhere, where would it be and what would it say?
• One bit of advice or wisdom you want every adult listening to this conversation today, what would you want them to take away from our conversation today?

Overview of Episode #71 ---

• How Hartman's work reveals more than DISC Style.
• Why Carol and Suzie use Hartman's Acumen Science and stories where it's made a big difference.
• How to use Acumen to build true clarity and not just drift.
• Insights info into Carol's Wake Up Eager life.
• Contact Priceless Professional Development: 770-578-6976, [email protected] or www.pricelessprofessional.com
• To see the show notes and get the transcript for this episode, go to: www.pricelessprofessional.com/deeperthandisc

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Topic 1: How Did You Become Aware of Robert S. Hartman's Work? Why Are You Passionate About It? Why Do You Care About It?

• Became aware of Hartman's work after taking a job with an Executive Coach who wanted me to become certified in TriMetrix.
• Was initially intimidated by some of the complexity of TriMetrix, of going so deep.
• I was intrigued because people have always interested me.
• It really allowed me to dive into learning more about people and how to interpret the science and then utilize it.
• It is a touch point to help reveal someone's psychological foundation of how they perceive the world and themselves.

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Topic 2: When Did the Overwhelming Feeling of TriMetrix Go Away?

• The overwhelming feeling went away when I started to debrief people.
• I started to learn, patterns, what to watch for, what questions to ask.
• The accuracy of TriMetrix.
• As long as someone goes in with an honest and open mind, and responds instinctively we get the best results.
• Clients have asked, "Who have you been talking to because you know way too much about me?"
• Using the tool and starting to debrief took away some of the complexity.

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Topic 3: What is Different About the Hartman Piece of the Assessment?

• Hartman is a deeper psychological tool than DISC and Motivators.
• It looks at how a person actually thinks and values the world around them.
• It looks at 3 dimensions: Intrinsic, extrinsic and systemic.
• It looks at how a person thinks and values themselves as a unique human being.
• How does a person really look out to the world?
• Allows you to look at a person from a deeper level on how they think, how they perceive, how they judge.
• You'll understand when they start making decisions, where are those decisions being focused more on? Is it people? Is it tasks? Or is it systems?
• How using Hartman is like mining.
• Allows you to see the individual for who they are.
• Helps prepare the right questions to ask a person before ever meeting them, because you start to try and think like them.
• You become a trusted advisor.
• You are able to look at the whole person.
• If you know how to interpret the information, you can be very successful in developing people and creating a better life for them personally and professionally.
• Brings more clarity.
• It is very fulfilling to help somebody be happier and more fulfilled from their personal and professional lives just through a simple tool.

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Topic 4: Mistake of Applying DISC as Hartman's Science.

• We tend to pigeonhole people into DISC, but that is not fair, people are a blend of all 4 styles.
• Your DISC style is going to be influenced through Acumen.
• Acumen will either amplify behavioral styles or they will dampen them.
• Acumen has that psychological piece to it that you are missing with just the observable DISC behavior.
• Look at scores and biases.
• "Hartman's Science brings clarity to individuals lives so that they can actually see where their true talents are, how should they be leveraging them so that they can actually then start to build on it and not just drift, because now they've got true clarity. Now they know how to go after their goals. They know what to expect. That's the true value of this tool."
• The stronger the bias, the more noise in your head. When it comes to people, tasks and things, the less bias, the more clear you are, the more open you are to be able to make a better decision or to see things clearer.

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Topic 5: How Are You Using Hartman's Work? How Have You Used It In the Past?

• Coaching.
• Consulting.
• Training.
• Working with families.
• Making hiring decisions.
• Value the person in front of you.

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Topic 6: How Has Harman's Work Impacted You Personally and Professionally?

• I was narrow-minded.
• I did not understand the biases I had, or have, now I am aware of them and truly believe it has made me far more open-minded.
• We all have different experiences.
• We all value different things.
• We all have different opinions.
• "I may be here to train you or to coach you, but I am hoping that throughout this experience I learn as much from you as you learn from me."
• There is no bad report.
• There is no judgment.
• It is like a truth serum.

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Topic 7: Getting to Know Carol Mettenbrink.

• Who has most influenced you in your life and career? And what did they say or do that was most useful for you?: My kids "Mom, you are a good person, you are a great Mom. Keep doing what you're doing." "Mom, you are so great at what you do, you just need to believe in yourself and keep making a difference in others lives." "I'm so proud of you, but it hurts when I see you lack confidence. So please have the confidence in you and not let anything stand in your way."
• Education, books, training programs?: Trained by Dr. Dave Medford; Can't Beat Me by David Goggins; Relating to Acumen – "Sometimes we don't know what we don't know, and these assessments really give that kind of clarity."
• When you think of the word successful, who's the first person that comes to mind?: "Raising two beautiful, intelligent, loving and caring people really signifies the biggest success in my life. That achievement conquers all else in my life, so that truly is my success."
• What do you normally do around mind, body and spirit to more greatly contribute to Wake Up Eager days for yourself?: Mind – Same morning routine, but start with an attitude of gratefulness and thankfulness. Body – Workout 4-5 times per week. Spirit – Daily calls with my daughter and hearing my grandkids, and being on the farm and living a simple life.
• Favorite guilty pleasure TV show: Luther on Amazon Prime
• One billboard anywhere, where would it be and what would it say? Picture of the barn that is behind my house with a double rainbow over it with the words, "CHOOSE JOY. LOVE YOU."
• One last bit of advice or wisdom: "I think if you really want to make the best decision with the talent of your organization, making the right investment in your people, Acumen is really your ace in your pocket to drive that. And when you start to make this investment, it changes the person because they see the organization as truly caring about them. They're making this investment in me so that I can find personal and professional fulfillment and success."