Overview

Emotional intelligence refers to your ability to manage your emotions, and the emotions of others. In the workplace, this means you’ll need to be able to gauge the emotional needs of your co-workers, and meet them if appropriate. Once you start really investigating emotional intelligence, you’ll be amazed at how much your emotions can affect you and your colleagues at work.

DiSC is a behavioral assessment that helps us better understand ourselves and others to improve our emotional intelligence.  Through DiSC, we can better understand what makes us “tick”, what drives us – what gives us energy – and what drains our energy and pulls us down.  DiSC clues us in to what situations we may be in that will get us “charged up” – (creating emotional highs) or frustrate us (pulling down our emotional state).  This increased self-awareness clues us in to reactions we are having.  Only then, can we choose to move from just being aware, to learning how to manage those reactions.

DiSC provides tips and strategies to adapt our approaches as we work with others, in different situations, making us more emotionally intelligent and effective in working with others. 

Books/Articles

• Training with DISC: 30 Games & Team Building Exercises to Lead your First or your 101st DISC Workshop
• Emotional Intelligence 2.0
• DISC Theory Handout

 Videos