Your Lifeline Can Be More Than a Dash
By · CommentsThere is a poem that compares your lifeline to the dash that appears between two dates on a headstone. But your lifeline can be much more than that. It is up to you, and the choices you make, plus your willingness to work diligently toward your Vision of what you want to accomplish in your lifetime.
Video Transcript
Hello, My name is Bill Blake, and today I would like to talk with you about your potential – and the relationship of your lifeline to that potential.
In this world we have but one life to live – a limited amount of time that we can spend any way we want – we have been given that choice. But once we have left this world, we will be remembered for the life we did live – not the one we hoped for.
When you visit a cemetery you realize that it is a place of memories – of lives lived and loves lost. Within the cemetery will be many headstones – marked by a name and two dates separated by a dash. Some of you may recall the poem by Linda Ellis, entitled – “The Dash”; where a person’s life, here on earth, is related to the dash that appears between the two dates on a headstone. But what that dash represents is quite different for each one of us. We have all been given gifts – lots of them, but we have also been given the gift of choice, and it is the choices we make that will determine how we will be remembered.
So let’s take that small dash and convert it into a lifeline. Read More→
Team Roles
By · CommentsThe Team Dimensions Profile helps people work from their strengths by identifying their most natural team role, while giving them added appreciation for the contributions of others. Organizations use it to build team unity, foster innovation, and reduce project cycle time.
It Starts with Trust
By · CommentsIt’s Time . . . For You!
By · CommentsHere is a short video (under 10 minutes) describing the benefits and characteristics of the Time Mastery Profile . I hope that you like it!
Press Release
By · CommentsInscape Publishing released the following Press Release this week!
Independent Consultants Achieve Sales Award
April 4, 2011, Sarnia, ON – Business owners Doreen and Bill Blake have been honored as Inscape Publishing Ruby Award winners.
“In a time of high unemployment, many organizations are spending less on workforce development. The fact that Doreen and Bill Blake set a sales record during this difficult time is really quite remarkable,” says Jeffrey Sugerman, president and CEO of Inscape Publishing. “We are proud to have Doreen and Bill Blake as leaders in our Inscape Publishing community.” Fewer than 1% of Inscape’s independent consultants worldwide earned the honor of Ruby Award. Read More→
Featured Profile: Work Expectations Profile
By · Comments“Our product is steel. Our strength is people.” This slogan has been used by Dofasco Steel Company since 1970. In 2007 the company was named as one of Canada’s top100 employers – the only steelmaker to achieve this honor.
Committed, productive employees are key to organizational success and a healthy balance sheet. The challenge is to develop a system that will recruit, train, and retain satisfied, committed and competent employees.
One solution is Inscape Publishing’s Work Expectations Profile!
This self-directed learning instrument helps your employees understand and manage their work expectations. Research has shown that people who have clearly defined, well-communicated expectations have better attitudes and enjoy greater job satisfaction than people whose expectations go unspoken or unrealized. And companies that employ satisfied, successful people reap the rewards of increased productivity and reduced turnover.
Focus|Reflect|Act delivers memorable learning:
- Focus on their expectations
- Reflect on whether their expectations are met or unmet
- Assist in acting on what they have discovered.
This profile is designed to help individuals uncover and explore their expectations in a variety of employment situations, including:
- Working on a team
- Transitioning to a new position , or experiencing organizational change
- Performance Reviews
- Making the most of of daily routines.
The Work Expectations Profile Individual Report makes it even easier for managers and employees to dialogue about their work expectations. In addition to providing information about high expectations, the online Individual Report includes a “Gap Analysis” that provides participants with an at-a-glance look at how important each Work Expectations category is to them, and to what degree each is being met.
This helps them quickly pinpoint which Work Expectations categories need the most attention.
The Work Expectations Profile can also include a group report. This Report provides a group summary of Gap Analysis information, which supervisors and managers can use to identify likely sources of dissatisfaction within the group. The organization can use the information to better align the organizational culture with the collective expectations of the group. The report is anonymous, so it can be used in a variety of situations without breaching confidentiality.
For further information about the Work Expectations Profile CLICK HERE
Tags: Performance Reviews, Work Expectations Profile, Working on a team DiSC® PPSS (Personal Profile System Software)
Are you looking for increased effectiveness in sales, management and customer service? The DiSC® PPSS profile report provides individuals and teams with detailed, personalized information to help them apply DiSC learning in a variety of business applications. This feedback offers a wide range of practical interpretive reports that help people improve their effectiveness in sales, management and customer service. Easy Access to the World of DiSC DiSC® dimensions of behaviour provides a non-judgemental language for exploring behavioral issues across four primary dimensions: Dominance, Influence, Steadiness, and Conscientiousness. The DiSC® PPSS report is a multilevel learning instrument that provides detailed, personalized information to help individuals and teams apply DiSC learning immediately. The feedback covers a broad range of behavioural characteristics, including behavioral strengths and weakness, motivating and demotivating factors, and management and selling styles. Enhance Personal Effectiveness Experts agree that people can significantly enhance personal effectiveness by honestly evaluating their behavior and selecting self-management strategies that maximize strengths and minimize weakness in four main application areas:
DiSC® PPSS provides information to help individuals and teams apply DiSC learning in a wide variety of today’s business applications. Available Reports
Supplemental and Comparison Reports: a number of supplemental and comparison reports are available for use in tailored DiSC applications including:
Some areas where DiSC® PPSS Applications would be useful include:
The DiSC®PPSS report is our FEATURED PROFILE this month and is eligible for a special discount of 10% for purchases made prior to the end of February, 2011. For further information CLICK HERE |
Tags: business applications, client relationships, DiSC PPSS supplemental and comparison reports, management strategies, Norquest Associates, personal profile system, profile report, sales management, self awareness and self management
Discovering Diversity™ Profile
By · Comments“My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught me and what he spoke to me. America’s strength is not our diversity; it is our ability to unite around common principles even when we come from different backgrounds.”
~ Ernest Istook
“One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of nature I met with in this charming season, expelled every gloomy and vexatious thought.”
~Daniel Boone
With the world becoming more change-oriented and diverse, diversity has taken on a new importance in the workplace. Organizations know they must help employees understand, accept, and capitalize on differences. They know the cultural backgrounds and experiences of diverse employees and customers can enrich the organization, making it more innovative and globally competitive. Simply recognizing diversity helps link the variety of talents and strengths within the organization.
But communication can become a problem unless it is managed. People from different backgrounds perceive messages in different ways. Miscommunication can lead to a variety of challenges – unless care is observed.
But diversity is not only about preventing unwanted discrimination, it is also about valuing differences, and inclusion across such areas as ethnicity, age, culture, sexual orientation, disability, mental capacity, and religious beliefs.
The Discovering Diversity™ Profile helps individuals explore their own viewpoints on workforce diversity in four key areas:
- Knowledge: Employees examine what they know about differences and where that information comes from
- Understanding: Employees learn how willing they are to put themselves in a position to feel what others may be feeling
- Acceptance: Employees assess how patient and respectful they are of diverse behaviors and background.
- Behavior: Employees gain insight into how they act out their attitudes toward others.
Once employees identify their current attitudes about workforce diversity, the Discovering Diversity™ Profile helps them understand how their viewpoints and behaviors affect others.
The Discovering Diversity™ Profile will help individuals in your organization:
- Discover their personal comfort level with people who are different from themselves
- Understand the impact of their behavior on others
- Limit the influence of stereotypes
- Reduce conflict
- Transform knowledge into acceptance and empathy
- Embrace diversity as a source of organizational strength
Click here to obtain further information about this outstanding profile.
Tags: Discovering Diversity™, diversity profile, Norquest Associates, people from different backgrounds, realize our potential, workforce diversityThe Time of Your Life
By · CommentsSome of you may have recognized the first part of this video, from a poem Linda Ellis wrote in 1996.
But the real message of the video is that we have been given a life, and a purpose. We have also been given the gifts to realize our potential.
We have also been given a free will - the right to choose for ourselves as to how we will spend our time here on earth. Will it be memorable? Will we achieve our vision and accomplish our purpose? Or will we allow ourselves to be diverted, and our life spent in the shallows of wishful thinking.
The choice is ours! But always remember, - the ability to succeed rests in each one of us!
