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Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard
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Chip and Dan Heath, authors of Made to Stick, have written a new book on three surprising things about change and how that information can help people and organizations implement difficult changes.
Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
by Chip Heath by Broadway Business
Hardcover ~ Release Date: 2010-02-16 
List Price: $26.00
Our Price: $11.88 Buy Now
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| DISC Master Class Under Construction Now |
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This Master Class, still in development based on feedback from practitioners, will take place in Rhode Island in three, two-day sequential sessions over the next 12 months. Because the content will build from session to session, continued participation will require attendance at the first session. Enrollment in this small group program will also include participation in an exclusive online community of practice, currently under construction. The online content library includes
PowerPoint presentations, research documents and relevant journal articles based on 25 years of research in DISC applications. Practitioners with 5+ years of client experience with DISC may apply for this program. More details will follow in a separate mailing. Contact Pamela if you are interested in attending this training. |
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| Great Waterfront House Available |
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I've decided I'm too young for early retirement in this lovely coastal community. So it's time for me to move back to the Boston area and get serious about application development.
Take a virtual tour of this special property and see what I've been doing here for the past nine years.
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Pamela Cole
PsychTech Inc. |
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Greetings!
During this time of year in New England it is always a test of faith to believe that Spring will come and the dead-looking landscape will burst forth with new life. Similarly, in economic times like the present it is a test of faith to believe that new ventures, new possibilities and new monetization schemas will appear. Yet in both cases, I have years of experience that tell me Spring will come, new life will appear in both my business and my garden. As every good farmer and gardener knows, the late winter task is to prepare the soil for new life and so I'm tending both my physical garden and virtual garden with great anticipation!
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 Are You a Mechanical Turk?
Or are you in danger of being replaced by one? Seth Godin
introduces this term in his new book, Lynchpin, citing the Amazon
service by the same name. Amazon took the name from a 19 th century
chess-playing "computer" that was actually not a computer at all. The chess
game was being played by a small man in a box. Amazon uses the term for
services that appear to be performed by technology but are actually parceled
out to many pink and white collar workers who perform the clerical or
computational activities behind the scenes (such as transcribing audio
recordings). By chunking the
requirements, Amazon is able to provide a quick turnaround at a low cost. Godin uses this example to talk about what is
replacing white collar work that is highly proceduralized and structured-what
Pink calls "algorithmic work". After
listening to the audio version of his book for the second time, I find myself
thinking about in what ways I was replaced by a Mechanical Turk and what I did
that created this vulnerability to a low cost replacement. Read the article
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I Know My Style, Now What? |
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I've been crafting answers to this question for over 30 years. Fundamentally, people ask this question because they want to know what value, other than satisfying curiosity, the information may have in making their day easier and more meaningful. As I look more critically at my learning designs in light of many of the contemporary challenges, I'm discovering that some of what I'm doing is fine but quite a bit needs to change.
The persistently voiced wish of people who are introduced to the DISC Model is for a methodology/application that they can use to apply the information to their real-world needs. I've gotten really good at explaining the model and walking people through their personal data but what kind of process have I developed that makes it easy for them to search for application strategies, create an action plan, and document their progress? I think it's time to work on that kind of application--something simple enough to work on a Blackberry or iPhone. That's where we need to take DISC next if we our going to answer this perennial question in a way that makes sense in 2010! |
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 Using Five Factor Research to Bridge DISC and RIASEC
Much of the contemporary research on job fit and performance uses the Big Five model, OCEAN, (Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism)and Holland's RIASEC model. Holland developed the RIASEC model and companion assessments for the purpose of exploring the fit between the requirements of specific work environments and personal style-based interests. I think we can build a good case for how DISC can be used in this same capacity by using some research that was published in the 2004 Journal of Counseling Psychology. In this research, Sullivan and Hansen explore the relationship between the Big Five personality facets (NEO-PI) and the job interests mapped by Holland's RIASEC model. Since we have already discovered a strong link between the Big Five facets and DISC Classical Patterns, we can extrapolate this research on RIASEC and the Big Five to DISC.
Bridging between the two models (RIASEC-DISC) is important because we know that job fit is a critical ingredient of employee engagement, job satisfaction and effective performance. The good news is that we have DISC tools that can be used to explore job fit in an interactive dialogue. Being able to use DISC to explore the territory that is already well defined by RIASEC model provides a link to a large body of work such as the O*Net database. Listen to the explanation of why understanding this approach to Job Fit is important in the era of what Daniel Pink calls Motivation 3.0.
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| I'm looking forward to continued collaboration with colleagues and clients to create new learning and performance solutions so we can all thrive in the shifting sands of our global political and economic reality.
Sincerely,
 Pamela
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