http://www.ttidisc.com/people-energizing-people Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:35:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Why You Deserve a Customized Approach Think back to the last time you or someone you know visited the doctor with an ache, pain or some kind of unusual symptom. What did the doctor do to determine the cause and treatment of the problem? Just like doctors who ... http://www.ttidisc.com/people-energizing-people/2009/06/the-importance-of-assessment-options/ How Multiple Assessments Add to Success While DISC is one of the most common assessments used in the workplace, it does not reveal everything you need to know about a person. In fact, DISC only measures behavior style and communication tendencies, or “how” we act in our natural and adapted ... http://www.ttidisc.com/people-energizing-people/2009/06/disc-is-just-the-beginning/ How Awareness and Communication Improve Team Dynamics In Patrick Lencioni’s best-selling book, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, he tells a tale of a firm’s executive team struggling with utter dysfunction.  Ineffective communication, multiple egos, fear, office politics and judgmental attitudes were all contributing to the absence of dynamics and poor ... http://www.ttidisc.com/people-energizing-people/2009/05/dysfunction-in-the-workplace/ How It Heightens Disengagement and Costs You Millions Dysfunction in a team will usually result in poor performance and inadequate productivity, but the effects of team dysfunctions on the employees themselves just might be far more serious and much more costly. When a team becomes dysfunctional you can expect disengagement to follow ... http://www.ttidisc.com/people-energizing-people/2009/05/bottom-line-effects-of-dysfunction/ TTI Conducts Research with Behavioral Assessments As a loyal subscriber of People Energizing People, you are invited you to take part in TTI’s research on the DISC style of President Obama based on your perception of his public image. The quick, 10-minute assessment will give you the opportunity to choose adjectives ... http://www.ttidisc.com/people-energizing-people/2009/04/what-is-president-obama%e2%80%99s-perceived-public-image/ How We Either Survive or Succeed with Adaptive Behavior Like President Obama, most of us have various roles in our lives in which we do have a public image. At the current moment, you may be in any combination of roles, such as a spouse, parent, executive, volunteer, student or mentor. ... http://www.ttidisc.com/people-energizing-people/2009/04/do-you-have-a-public-image/ “Everything, then, must be assessed in money; for this enables men always to exchange their services, and so makes society possible.” – Aristotle (384-322 BC) Even though Aristotle made this point over 2000 years ago, it couldn’t ring more true today. Almost everything involved in transactions today are based on a price ... http://www.ttidisc.com/people-energizing-people/2009/03/the-true-value-of-talent-management/ Controlling Turnover and Addressing Disengagement with a Complete System Turnover alone may be costing you millions, but what about the employees you still have? Is their disengagement costing you even more? Fortunately, turnover and disengagement stem from job fit, and you can reduce costs associated with both by using a complete hiring ... http://www.ttidisc.com/people-energizing-people/2009/03/invest-in-your-talent/ Today, companies with hiring challenges are not alone. Just recently, over 150 businesses showed up at a job fair sponsored by Jobing.com, a major job board agency. Over 14,000 people attended, but not a single hire was made that day. As companies world-wide are in a crunch to hire for ... http://www.ttidisc.com/people-energizing-people/2009/02/implement-effective-selection-with-total-person-analysis/ To meet today’s challenges, companies world-wide are searching for ways to do more with less. While many strategies offer streamlined processes and ways to add value, the biggest opportunities to meet this challenge lie within the talent themselves and are critical to future success: Finding the right talent Retaining your top ... http://www.ttidisc.com/people-energizing-people/2009/02/facing_todays_talent_challenges/