Getting Organizing and Understanding Your Personal DiSC Style

Welcome
Getting Organized…The GO System Seminar
Learning to Get Organized, Focused and Highly Productive

Presented by:
Anne McGurty of Strategize & Organize

Workshop Purpose:
 Present ideas to help you get organized
 Present ideas to help you stay organized
 Present ideas to help you get focused
 Present ideas to help you stay focused
 Present ideas to help you get more productive
 Present ideas to help you stay more productive

Checklist for Resource Material
Relax, Focus and Listen

“Handle Every Piece of Paper Once”
 Bad Advice...In Most Cases.
 Other myths or mantras you’ve
learned

Warning!!

Workaholics and Over-schedulers

Three Possible Outcomes:

 Nothing

 “Human reset button”

 Change your life

Best Reasons to Get Organized:
 It feels great!
 Like the day before vacation
 Motivation
 Seeking positive feelings
 Avoiding negative feelings

The Productive Environment™
 Design Your Vision*
 Eliminate Your Obstacles/Excuses*
 Select Your Tools
 Commit Your Time and $$
 Maintain Your Success

Why Hasn’t It Worked Before?
Six issues may need to be addressed
Like a car with six problems – you’re not going to go anywhere!

Other Significant Barriers to Success
 Gadget solutions
 Some planners
 Some PDAs
 Some software programs

Time Management Ideas
DiSC Time Mastery Profile™

Finding Files – The Paper Tiger™

Computer Skills

 Maximize your Efficiency
 Document Control
 Intranet

DiSC©
Resources
Solutions for Hiring, Development, & Retention

Clarity
“A trip to the grocery store”

Once Again…The 80/20 Principle
Eliminate, Eliminate, Eliminate!!!

Contrast John Gagliardi with the “Busy Managers”

“Jethro Bodine” Project Planning

Personality Issues
 Mismatches (100/300 pound candidates)
 Spontaneous person/methodical job
 Extrovert person/introvert assignment
 Accommodating person/dominant assignment (Ike and
Patton)
 Concrete thinker/abstract assignment
 Work teams – proper mix (especially your assistant if you
have one)

General Eric Von Manstein’s Matrix
 Lazy/stupid – leave them alone, no harm
 Hard working/intelligent – excellent staff
officers
 Hard working/stupid – fire them at once!
 Lazy/intelligent – these are suited for the
highest office
Be economical with your energy!

Psychological Issues:
 Call 911! Story
 Chronic disorganization, adult-add and other
dysfunctions
 May need paper “in sight”
 May need noise
 May need another person to help
 May think quite differently about filing
(emotional filing)

 Potential self-defeating behavior
 Multitasking
 Perfectionism
 Workaholic behavior
 Procrastination

 Duration and intensity – negative impact
on your life
 As anxiety increases, typical response is
action – action drives out thought
 What really matters often falls by the
wayside in this situation

Handling Incoming Items

Simplicity Warning!

Zero Gravity Pen

Clutter Prevention

“Broken Windows Theory”

Controlling Incoming Items
 Paper
 E-mails
 Voice mails
 Verbal requests
 Your thoughts (things you want to do)

Sequence of Getting Organized

 Gathering
 Filtering
 Prioritizing
 Doing

The Five Decisions
 Discard or recycle
 Delegate
 Take immediate action
 File for follow-up (must keep because you
need to take further action)
 Put in a reference file (want to keep, but no
further action is required)

The Five Decisions
PAPER E-MAIL VOICE MAIL

Discard Delete Erase

Delegate Forward Forward

Take immediate action Reply Reply

File for follow-up Print and file Write on follow-up form

Reference file Print and file Write on follow-up form

The Five Decisions –
Pace Is Important!
 Pick up the item
 Ask – “which one of the five”?
 If it is a follow-up item:
 What am I going to do next on this item?
 When am I going to do it?
 Drop it in the appropriate follow-up file

Where Do I Put This Stuff?

 Causes of clutter:
 Not putting things away
 Not having a pre-designated storage
place for things
 A cyclical issue

The GO System – Core Files
 1 to 31 files
 January to December files
 Follow up forms file (blank forms)
 People files
 Meeting files

The GO System – Core Files
 Reading file (casual reading)
 Project files
 Waiting for response file
 Purchases and errands file
 Someday/maybe file
 Other files based on your unique situation

Prioritizing Your Workload
 Use the “flip-over” method (less than 60 seconds)
 Can get it all done
 Can’t get it all done
 Handling interruptions
 Resetting your system (“human reset button”)
 Can’t come to work
 Prioritize any time you feel yourself losing control

Kit Contents
 24 page step-by-step workbook
 24 page tip workbook
 Poster – “the five decisions” reminder
 Card – “the five incoming items” and “the five
decisions” reminder
 Sample pad of follow-up forms
 A set of core labels for your files
 A CD with a variety of implementation resources

Implementation Tips
 Serious throw-away session with someone
else present
 Getting over the “homeostasis hump”
 Using capture cards
 Setting appointments with yourself
 Keep a serious abundance of file folders
and labels handy

Implementation Tips

 Work on unavoidable irritants
 Use in/out baskets (even if you have no
assistant)
 Other “flipping” applications
 Get a copy of the book getting organized
by Chris crouch

JLS Story
“The job of a problem is to get your attention”

Orange Barrels
“Five lanes to one lane”

Influencing Others
Edgar Guest Poem

“The Sermon” by Edgar Guest
I’d rather see a sermon, than hear one any day.
I’d rather you walk with me, than merely show the way.
For the lessons you deliver, may be very wise and true,
But I think I’ll get my lessons, by observing what you do,
I might misunderstand, all this high advice you give,
But I won’t misunderstand how you act and how you live.

Second Half of Day
 The DiSC Profiles

Getting Organizing and Understanding Your Personal DiSC Style

What we will cover today:
 What is DiSC classic?
 Basic Insights
 New Features in DiSC
 Marston’s DiSC Model
 DiSC Classic EPIC Record

DiSC Classic 2.0
DiSC® Classic is used to improve performance,
deal more effectively with conflict, and value
differences. Using the research-based DiSC model,
DiSC Classic helps you better understand why
you act the way you do.

DiSC Four Dimensions
The four dimensions of D, i, S, and C are
combined to provide a Classical Profile
Pattern that describes a wide range of
interpersonal behaviors and preferences.

Basic Insights:
 Personal Insight into Behavioral Preferences
and Inclinations
 Appreciation of Personal Diversity
 A Common Language to Understand
and Discuss Personality
 Dialogue About Personality Preferences and
Differences
 Relating to Individuals with Different Personalities

What is new in DiSC ®
Classic 2.0?
 Enhanced narrative representation
 Broader interpretation
 Personalization
 Story about YOU
 Strong personal connection
Organized and presented in a more meaningful way
 Ease of interpretation
 Elaboration on highest DiSC Dimension through
personalization
 Richer descriptions
 Affirming language inspires action

Environment
Perceives Environment as:
• Favorable
• Unfavorable
Perceives Self as:
 More Powerful than the Environment
 Less Powerful than the Environment

Marston’s Model: Self
Perceives Self as More Powerful than the Environment

D i

C S
Perceives Self as Less Powerful than the Environment

DiSC® Classic 2.0 Te le-Training

Marston’s Model Integrated
Dimension Environment Self
Dominance Unfavorable More powerful
Influence Favorable More powerful
Steadiness Favorable Less powerful
Conscientiousness Unfavorable Less powerful

High D
■ Sees an unfavorable environment
that they want to overcome

■ Tries to change, fix,
or control things

High i
 Sees a favorable environment in which they can influence
others

 Tries to persuade, promote, or influence others

High S
 Sees a favorable environment that they want to
maintain
 Tries to be cooperative, supportive, and agreeable
while keeping things stable

High C
 Sees an unfavorable environment that they do not
want to try to change

 Tries to work within established rules, guidelines,
and procedures to ensure accuracy and quality

Response Form
28 boxes of 4 adjectives  Forced choice

The DiSC® Classic Individual Report
has four sections.
 Section l is devoted entirely to you and your unique
behavior style
 Section ll covers the DiSC model and the DiSC Dimensions
 Section lll overviews the Classical Patterns
 Section lV contains the scoring and data analysis for your
report

DiSC®
Graph
Your scores on each
DiSC dimension

Classical Profile Pattern

Your Highest Dimension
Description of your
Highest Dimension

•DiSC® Classic paper
•DiSC Classic 1.0

Your Highest Dimension

Description of your
Highest Dimension
in DiSC® Classic 2.0

Individual Report:

Intensity Index
Adjectives that describe a person on each of the four
dimensions
 DiSC® Classic paper
 DiSC Classic 1.0
 DiSC Classic 2.0

Intensity Index

D Dimension
i Dimension
S Dimension
C Dimension

Description of Your Classical
Profile Pattern

•DiSC® Classic paper
•DiSC Classic 1.0

Individual Report Section 1:
 Description of your
Classical Profile Pattern in DiSC® Classic 2.0

+
•New Personalized
narrative highlights: Motivation
Work Habits
Insights

Individual Report: Section II

The DiSC Model
 This page includes a brief description
of the DiSC Model

Individual Report:
Section IV

Scoring and Data Analysis
 DiSC Classic Graph
 Tally Score Boxes
 Summary of Interpretation

Contact Anne McGurty
www.StrategizeAndOrganize.com
Now to Schedule a Custom Training
or Consulting

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