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Thanks for listening and see you next
time. Welcome to Coaches to Know,

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a podcast short designed to help to
demestify coaching and help you our audience understand

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coaching and how it can help you. I'm your host, Jamie, and

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today I'm here with Coach Mora to
talk about the DISK assessment. Coach Mora

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has been coaching for nearly fifteen years. She works at the intersection of business

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and culture, particularly in international people
strategy and management consulting. She has spent

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twelve years living and working outside of
the US, and in addition to her

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international experience, she holds an MBA
and a degree in cultural anthropology. Her

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clients are culturally diverse, high achievers
and leaders across a range of industries,

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as well as entrepreneurs and young professionals
who want to work on leadership style,

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building their confidence and communication skills.
Welcome Coach Mora. Thank you for joining

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us here today and we'll just get
right into it because we don't have a

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lot of time. So today we're
here to talk about the DISK assessment.

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Could you please share with us what
is the DISK assessment and what is the

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assessment based on? Absolutely? Thank
you, Jamie, very excited to be

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here and talk to you. About
this tool which is really impactful and something

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that has a lot of applications.
So the DISK assessment is a behavioral tool

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like many right we know of other
behavioral tools, the DISK assessment is slightly

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different in that it's a simple and
effective way to identify inherent traits and preferences

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of individuals. So essentially, what
is your individual style? And it's different

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than other assessments for Exampler's brigs of
the MBTI, which is more about your

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personality, the DISC is really looking
at behavior as to excuse me, observable

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behaviors. So the DISC looks at
observable behaviors that are identified for yourself.

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It's something that you can use to
also look at behaviors and styles of others,

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and it can really be effective when
used in relationships, so in a

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working group or with a team.
Amazing, thank you for that introduction.

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So could you give us some of
those sort of best use cases for the

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DISK assessment. Absolutely, I'm actually
gonna start with how it should not be

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used. Okay, that's the right. Yeah, different ways that you know

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behavioral tools and assessments are used,
but the DISC is not the best one

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for would be something like hiring or
performance because again the DISC is about personal

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style and we don't want to sort
of penalize someone for that because it's essentially

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looking at your preferences. What the
DISC can be used for and is really

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an excellent tool for, is building
your self awareness again, identifying what your

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priorities are, your style, your
preferences, and with you. When used

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in a group, it can be
really powerful for team building, leadership effectiveness.

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The DISC is something that can be
used to harness trust and establish empathy,

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either individually or collectively. It's something
that can be used as a powerful

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tool and conflict resolution again kind of
building out what it is that different people

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lean on, right or kind of
default too. When used individually, you

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can talk about you can use it
to talk about your personal branding. You

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know, what is it that defines
my style and how does that impact how

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I show up in my leadership brand? And it's really effective with international collaboration

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again, identifying different styles. Something
can be used in developing adaptability right in

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the variable sort of complex environment that
we find ourselves in today. So quite

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a variety of tools, both individually, so excuse me, a variety of

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applications both individually and collectively. That's
very interesting and amazing all the different sort

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of variable use cases. You know, I've always tended to think about disc

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as something that would be great for
using in a team setting, but it's

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actually interesting to hear about how an
individual can use it to build awareness about

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their own style and their personal branding. Can it be used in the sense

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of helping an individual and not just
understand who they are, but in order

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to maybe help with behavior change,
Maybe they want to develop certain preferences in

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certain ways. Absolutely, So what
you get when you go through the fifteen

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minutes or fifteen minute fifteen question discassessments
is essentially an identification of your preference again,

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your style, So that would be
D C or S, right,

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and I can run through that quickly
and then talk about how it might tie

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into your personal brand. Great.
So the D profile is really stands for

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dominance, So it's someone who's really
tends to be direct, firm, strong,

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willed, forceful, also tends to
be very results oriented, right,

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so really going for it. I
stands for influence. This is someone who

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tends to be outgoing, enthusiastic,
optimistic, high spirited. Right. There

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are people that you you know,
are great and kind of a collaborative group

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setting to get the energy up,
et cetera. S stands for steadiness.

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These are people who tend to be
even tempered, accommodating patients, humble,

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tactful, again really important maybe when
you're talking about negotiations, right or something

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similar. And C is about being
conscientious, right, So these people tend

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to be more analytical, reserved,
precise, systematic, right, great people

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to have when you're talking about anything
analytical, process oriented, data driven,

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etc. So you can see how
disc these different you know, different preferences,

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these different styles can actually be really
effective and really powerful in different settings,

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right, in different roles, right
on different types of work or projects.

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And one of the key principles of
the DISK assessment is that number one,

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all of these are equally valuable,
and number two is that everyone's a

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blend of all four of these styles. So what you get as a result

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of your preference is what can be
referred to a sort of your home base,

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if you will, right, you're
kind of default, and you are

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also a combination of the other preference
is in there. And I think when

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it comes to personal brand, knowing
what your home base is knowing what your

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kind of default is is the really
important thing to raise your self awareness so

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that you can make choices about how
you want to show up in different settings.

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Because the other part of this is
knowing that you can adapt and flex

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to the other preferences of the other
styles will really help you as well.

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Right, So, if you're in
a situation where you tend you know,

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you need to have a bit more
tact right, or maybe it's something that's

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a really sensitive relationship, having that
s that steadiness factor go up will really

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help you with your brand and really
help you with your performance. And similarly,

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if there's something that just needs to
be driven through and get done and

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you know, get over the finish
line, you know the inverse that de

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component, you know, being able
to flex that is something that will also

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really help you and may actually support
your team as well. So I think

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when it comes to personal brand,
knowing your your style, your preference,

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and knowing how you can adapt and
flex using the other preferences, preferences and

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styles is really how to leverage this
to increase the impact wherever you are.

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That's amazing and it's an amazing description. I love this idea that we are

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actually a blend of all worthies that
we have elements of that, but then

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you sort of just have a default, maybe like a default mode of operating.

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I imagine that coaching is a place
where if you, let's say you're

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naturally one of these let's say you're
naturally dominant, but you need a situation

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where you need to slow down and
be the steady presence, the green or

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then so is that a situation where
coaching can help you sort of develop that

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ability to adapt? Absolutely? Absolutely, I mean one of the greatest gifts

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of coaching is self awareness, because
once you become aware of your blind spots

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or aware of kind of different elements
of your style that you may be you

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know, don't use all the time
or aren't fully kind of in touch with,

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you can then make different choices or
conscientious choices the least about how you

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want to throw up right. So
absolutely, coaching is a way to kind

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of not just delve into, you
know, what is my style, but

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also what are the other styles here? Right? How can I adapt?

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How can I connect in with you
know, the different motivations, the different

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fears or limitations of the other styles
that can benefit me and can benefit my

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team and those around me. M's
that's amazing. That's a great, great

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summary of how coaching can really support
sort of that flexibility. Just one final

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question here, because we're almost at
a time you know, there are there

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are a lot of different assessments out
there, and one of the things that

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we are seeking to do is really
educate our audience of about the different assessments

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and how they can help them.
So I imagine you have a wide array

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of choices that you could have chosen
to get certified, and so why is

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it that you chose to get certified, and just what was it about this

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assessment that you found sort of most
impactful in the work that you do.

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Absolutely right, there are a number
of assessments out there, no shortage,

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and they all serve a slightly different
purpose. And I was drawn to the

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DISC, I mean countless different assessments. Myself. I was drawn to DISC

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as kind of a starting point from
my own certifications, largely because it is

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simple, it's fairly intuitive, and
therefore it's easy to remember. It's you

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can apply it to so many different
settings, and it fits a variety of

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different environments. Right as I said, individual team, all the different applications

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that we've already touched on and so
it's relatively easy to do. And I

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you get a lot on the back
end of that, right you. So

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that that's what I wanted to go
with the DISC myself, and what I

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have found in using it with us
sure is that that all that holds true,

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willing to it over time in a
coaching environment so that it's really impactful

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and in a team setting. There's
a great Ben Franklin quote where he says,

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tell me and I forget, teach
me and I may remember, Involve

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me and I learn. And I
think involving teams in the DISK assessment is

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incredibly impactful, getting them to stand
up, if they're together, move around

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right to talk about what the implications
of this are. And even virtually I'm

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debriefing a team next week and we're
going to be doing breakout rooms and we're

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going to be utilizing the chat and
you know, other tools, backgrounds,

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et cetera to really involve everybody and
and really cement this learning. So I

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think the DISC is accessible, it's
memorable, and it's impactful, wonderful,

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And on on that note, you
know we're gonna we're gonna. I'm gonna

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say thank you Coach Moura for sharing
your your insight into the disk assessment today

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and to our audience. If you
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