Comments on: Manager’s meeting notes, April 2012

By: Brenda

Brenda — Tue, 22 May 2012 15:41:13 +0000

I’ve taken several of these, including DiSC and I found them useful not only for understanding myself and my style, preferences, strengths, etc. but also for understanding others. I think you are right to question how we’d use the results – if they are just shelved, it will mainly just be useful to the person evaluated. But if teams and workgroups share their individual results in a fun non-judgmental environment, I think it could help us understand each other better and thus work together better.

By: Arabella Holzapfel

Arabella Holzapfel — Mon, 21 May 2012 20:30:36 +0000

Glad to see that ‘ladder of inference’ got some air-time in the management training. I first learned about it in 2004 and I use it all the time when I reflect about my attitudes and assumptions. It is one of the few things I’ve learned anywhere about anything that I can honestly say I use every day. A pretty good description in 3 minutes is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9nFhs5W8o8

By: Barbara Merz

Barbara Merz — Mon, 21 May 2012 12:43:43 +0000

Re: DiSC evaluation. These evaluations have been done before – DiSC in 1998 and a similar “team management wheel” measured by the “team management index” more recently. I do not believe that the results were ever used for anything. So is it really worth the cost to do this again? How will the info be used, in practice?. I suggest taking a close look at the usefulness of the ones already done in the management training – interesting to the person evaluated perhaps, but to anyone else?