How to deal with an Influencing Boss

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

How to deal with a Steady Boss

http://www.americanheritage1.com/presidents/george-h-w-bush.htm

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

Why should I use DISC at work?

http://blog.aimvic.com.au/2012/04/25/leon-gettler-coping-with-workplace-conflict/

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

The challenge of staying the best

I write this  on a Singapore Airlines (SQ), one of the world’s best airlines. A travel icon for decades, at least as long as the thirty years I’ve travelled with them. For SQ, and for those of us in business it’s tough becoming number one, and should you achieve its even harder to stay numbers one.
The aspiration to become number one sets for all a unique challenge for success, and having achieved this lofty goal, how do we maintain the passion in our teams to stay number one?
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