The Recovering Engineer

MARCH 21, 2011

The DISC model is one tool that you can use to get an estimate of another person’s emotional/psychological needs so that you can take positive, intentional actions that increase your ability to effectively connect and communicate with him or her. And, the DISC model is still a good tool you can use to make an educated guess.

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The Recovering Engineer

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

In From Bud to Boss , Kevin Eikenberry and I reference the Tuckman Model of team development as a useful tool for understanding what is happening in your team at each stage of development as it moves from a group of individuals working in the same location to a high-performing team working towards a common goal.

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The Recovering Engineer

MARCH 30, 2013

Listening as a Tool to De-escalate Conflicts. Accepting and acknowledging other people’s feelings goes a long way towards showing people that they have been heard and understood. This article is from the De-escalation Tips series. Use the links below to read more from this series. Five Ways to De-escalate a Conflict.

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The Recovering Engineer

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Listening is a powerful tool. The big idea to remember when you want to de-escalate a conflict is… Make yourself non-threatening to the other person. In the interest of giving you specific steps to accomplish the goal of making yourself non-threatening, I suggest that you… 1.

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The Recovering Engineer

MARCH 4, 2011

Despite these limitations, for real-world, working-with-people-in-the-moment situations, it is the best tool for me. Does the model explain every nuance of human behavior? Are their better clinical or analytical models? These are the reasons that I use the DISC model. This article is from the DISC FAQ's series.

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The Recovering Engineer

MAY 8, 2013

Listening as a Tool to De-escalate Conflicts. When you find yourself in a conflict and you are working to resolve it successfully, choose non-threatening tones and body language so that your words of resolution will match the non-verbal messages you send. photo credit: Tambako the Jaguar via photopin cc. Five Ways to De-escalate a Conflict.

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The Recovering Engineer

JULY 10, 2018

The DISC assessment is just the tool you use to build better understanding of how you “fit” within the DISC model. The best use of the DISC model is to develop better self-awareness personally and better understanding of others so that you can communicate, build teams, lead, and resolve conflicts more easily and more quickly.

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The Recovering Engineer

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Acknowledging their emotion is a powerful tool to show that you understand their perspective even if you do not necessarily agree with it. Let’s say someone expresses a strong emotion and it looks like that emotion could be a barrier to effectively communicating with them.

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The Recovering Engineer

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

Take these ideas, add them to your conflict communication tool box, and keep practicing. I have found that building a large repertoire of pre-planned strategies can help you stay cool, calm, and collected in even the most heated situations.

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The Recovering Engineer

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Long-time readers of my blog know that I use and recommend the DISC model as one tool for accomplishing this step. What you say might mean something other than what you intend to the other person. What the other person says might mean, to them, something other than what you hear. – culture, gender, age, etc.).

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The Recovering Engineer

DECEMBER 11, 2008

One of the key ideas to draw from the model is that about 35% of people are more task oriented and about 65% of people are more people oriented. Task oriented people tend to focus on the task at hand even in the presence of other people.

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The Recovering Engineer

MARCH 31, 2010

When people use the model to create an understanding of another person’s perspective, they use the model as a tool. These are really good strategies if you want to irritate someone with the DISC model. They are connecting and communicating more effectively. Both of which, I think, are good.

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