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I remember when I first came to Asia, how do I deal with a Boss from a culture different to mine. I struggled for a while until i first came into contact with DISC. I quickly saw it was a way to cut through my cultural bias and enable me to understand the behaviours of both my new colleagues and bosses.… Read more
I remember when I first came to Asia, how do I deal with a Boss from a culture different to mine. I struggled for a while until i first came into contact with DISC. I quickly saw it was a way to cut through my cultural bias and enable me to understand the behaviours of both my new colleagues and bosses.… Read more
One critical element in my people management over the years has been to develop an understanding of peoples behaviour preferences, and utilising DISC as a means to appreciate these.
As explained earlier DISC is a well regarded measure of how an individual prefers to act either in work or home settings. Its not a personality test, but a self assessment of your behaviour preferences.… Read more
Oprah received more than a little criticism for the way she handled her interview of Lance Armstrong. I’m sure she prepared, but maybe not well enough for everyone.
I can’t remember how many people i’ve interviewed for jobs in the last thirty years- several hundreds… and I regret that preparation for interviews wasn’t my strong point. I understand that preparing for hiring interviews is important, but until the last minute it wasn’t urgent enough to do preparation when compared to the other urgent tasks on my desk and in my inbox.… Read more
Some of the conversations i’m having with ex-colleagues certainly aren’t that positive after their company was recently acquired. As with all good acquisitions processes have been changed quickly, new reporting lines established, new systems brought into place. My friends were great at this their systems and processes were the ones others changed to. They are less happy with having to change themselves.… Read more