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How behavioral selling can help your business
READ THE FULL ARTICLE ON DISCINSIGHTS BY PEOPLEKEYS Behavioral selling is presenting your product or service in a way your customer can relate. Show them benefits, such as how your product will help them meet their goals or how your service will more than exceed their expectation. Some clients will want it now – give them examples and samples. Some will want it fun – allow them to experience it first-hand. Others will want assurance – provide customer references. Lastly, some want all the facts. To these, show the features that are most important to their current situation, provide them with a cost comparison and make sure to provide a…
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Coaching life changes for the active personality styles
READ THE FULL ARTICLE ON DISCINSIGHTS BY PEOPLEKEYS It’s not always easy to adapt to change, especially if it’s all happening at once. Sometimes change can be overwhelming. There’s no guidebook as to how our lives are going to change every step of the way, and there’s no deadline to prepare for. This is a moment many people turn to a life coach or a behavioral consultant to guide them through and support transition. There are a lot of guidelines coaches implement to help handle transitions and support their clients from point A to point B. Let’s see how a coaching professional can best utilize the personality approach to guide…
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Turn Around a Failing Team by Leading from Within
READ THE FULL ARTICLE ON DISCINSIGHTS BY PEOPLEKEYS When a client of ours, let’s call him Joseph, took over a company project, he knew it wouldn’t be easy to turn things around. The design team had fallen behind over the course of a year and a half. They were just six months away from the final delivery date originally committed and had blown through more than half-a-million dollars originally allocated to the entire project. Yet, there was still nothing ready to deliver to their client. There was a huge liability sitting on the table…one that would ruin the company entirely. Joseph knew a special leadership skillset would be needed, the…
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Coaching life changes for the passive personality styles
READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE ON DISCINSIGHTS BY PEOPLEKEYS When it comes to dealing with stress, change and volatile situations, understanding DISC personality styles and communicating change in the proper way is always necessary. When you coach against life changes, a behavioral approach not only builds trust amongst all involved, but it allows each personality to contribute without the fear of conflict or confrontation. As we previously discussed in our blog about coaching life changes for the active personality styles, according to DISC theory personality styles can be separated into Active and Passive styles. The active “D” and “I” styles tend to react quickly to challenges and being stagnant drives them…
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Which assessments are legal for hiring?
READ THE FULL ARTICLE ON DISCINSIGHTS BY PEOPLEKEYS. Employers are saving both time and money by implementing tools for predictive hiring into their regular hiring practices, and to get past the obstacles met within the initial screening of candidates, hiring managers have begun applying a number of pre-hire assessments into final decision-making. These assessments serve as indicators of what a person may or may not bring to the table, how they will interact with an existing workforce and how they will perform in particular environments. According to FindLaw.com, “Forty percent of Fortune 100 companies indicated that their employment selection systems included some form of psychological testing. A similar survey by…
