Perception and Conflict issues are difficult challenges where Harmony Consulting assists in Innovative yet discrete ways. Ultimately perception is reality for an individual, so the core challenge is to improve the health of Teams by helping individuals find and maintain a Shared Reality. This new found shared reality should be well aligned to the Organization’s reason for existing.

David has a tried and proven approach – Excellence through Presence™ – to meeting the individual “where they are” and helping them to rejoin their Team to co create a much better shared reality. Whether the Team’s orientation is Strategic or Tactical,  Special Projects or Operations oriented, or even your most Senior level Leadership context, David’s approach ensures that your organization will begin to see and resolve any sub optimized performance by addressing the blind spots that underly those scenarios.

This is the crucial first step. David is an Authorized Partner of Wiley & Sons, leveraging their Everything DiSC ™ personality assessment tools to bring awareness to how you tend to view the world and how the world perceives and responds to you.    David leverages Wiley’s various assessments solutions to bring initial awareness to individuals often operating as a Team, which helps individuals prepare for honest discussion about their Team’s dynamics. You can preview those Solutions here …

Harmony Consulting leverage’s a partnership with Everything DiSC to gather actionable feedback from Team members, regarding their leader’s leadership style and effectiveness.   The DiSC 363 feedback for Leaders™ is essential to building a keen awareness as a leader.

 

INTRODUCING EVERYTHING DiSC 363® FOR LEADERS: A NEW KIND OF 360!

Finally, a 360 for DiSC® users! But Everything DiSC 363® for Leaders isn’t just any 360. It combines the best of 360s with the simplicity and power of DiSC, plus three personalized strategies for improving leadership effectiveness. The result is a 360° experience that’s more productive and satisfying.

SO HOW IS 363 DIFFERENT?

First, we took the sting out of 360 feedback.

For many leaders, 360s can be a frustrating experience. Open-ended comments can be unfocused and unhelpful and can even derail the learning process. With our exclusive selectable comments feature, CommentSmart, raters can give focused, balanced, constructive feedback—that the leader can actually use.

Then, we made it easier to understand and use.

Everything DiSC 363 for Leaders isn’t a collection of dry spreadsheets and charts without any explanation or story. Clear visuals and a conversational narrative style interpret and explain the data, making the report easy to understand and use.

And finally, we answered the “Now what?”

With a lot of 360s, the leader’s response can be, “Now what?” Everything DiSC 363 for Leaders answers that question by giving leaders their next steps with three things they can focus on now.

The 363 Feedback Model

The 363 Assessment Experience

Participant Take-Aways

• Recognize the tendencies that shape their approach to leadership, based on their DiSC® style
• Understand how others see them as a leader and how their own self-ratings compare
• Identify which of the Eight Approaches to Effective Leadership—and the three behavioral Practices underlying each approach—are their strengths and which ones would benefit from further development
• Learn three personalized strategies for becoming a more effective leader based on specific rater feedback

Program Components 

• Two-part self-rating tool for leaders combines the research-validated, online Everything DiSC® and Leadership Behaviors assessments. The 22+-page 360° profile report provides
• Context-specific feedback using intuitive easy-to-read visuals
• Clear definitions of the Eight Approaches and associated behavioral Practices
• Graphic illustrations that break down feedback by type of rater (e.g., managers, peers, direct reports) Detailed rater comments on all 24 Practices
• Three personalized strategies that identify areas where leaders have the greatest opportunities for improvement, based on their unique DiSC style and specific feedback provided by raters
• Two-part research-validated, online assessment for raters combines the Leadership Behaviors assessment and an additional Leadership Requests survey that asks raters to identify which leadership practices they would like to see the leader engage in more frequently.  Powered by our exclusive CommentSmart feature, raters choose from a variety of selectable comments that provide focused, balanced, and constructive feedback that leader can actually use. An unlimited number of raters can be engaged in this 360-feedback process.

 

 

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The Work of Leaders Model

Everything DiSC Work of Leaders® is classroom training that uses online pre-work, engaging facilitation with contemporary video, and online follow-up to create a personalized learning experience. Based on best practices, Work of Leaders connects unique leadership styles to real-world demands, generating powerful conversations that provide a clear path for action. Everything DiSC Work of Leaders approaches leadership as a one-to-many relationship, as opposed to the one-to-one relationship explored in Everything DiSC® Management. It focuses on tangible steps directed at leading a group or organization toward desired outcomes. Using the framework of Vision, Alignment, and Execution, Work of Leaders encourages leaders to understand their own leadership styles and how they impact their effectiveness. Rich, compelling narrative adds depth to the data and strong visuals support the learning process by illustrating key messages.

RESEARCH-BASED

• Result of four-year research and development effort
• Analyzed and distilled the work of prominent leadership researchers
• Input from more than 300 subject-matter experts at over 150 organizations
• Identified leadership best practices

Case Study – Carhartt

The basis of Trust is willingness to become and remain Vulnerable

Harmony Consulting’s core competency is helping Teams of Teams (the modern Organization) become and remain Vulnerable in order to establish Trust, which leads to timely and effective debate and commitment, which ultimately results in voluntary, wide spread Shared Accountability over desired outcomes.   Achieving the building block of individual Vulnerability resulting in Trust yields a dynamic environment largely void of unhealthy conflict and wasteful hyper-activity due to misaligned perception in pursuit of desired outcomes (between individuals and teams).

In such a dynamic, transparent environment, the best possible outcomes are achieved.   David is an Authorized Partner with Wiley & Sons, The Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team ™.   He facilitates assessments and insightful workshops that will radically change the dynamics of any Team, at any level within the organization. Please review the solution here …

  David has invested significantly in helping Teams improve their dynamics.   He leverages the Everything DiSC ™ personality assessment solutions to seed the Team Dynamic assessment profiles, both offered by Wiley & Sons.  Harmony Consulting also offers support for the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator ™

 

David offers discrete assistance for leaders in their professional context.   Challenges commonly occur above or on the peripheral of a genuine leader.  Too often, leaders operate independently, without a true sense of Teamwork as a Leadership Team.   This creates an environment ripe with unproductive politics, and an overly complex planning / execution system. Appointed titles may expect the individual to lead effectively.   However, genuine leadership capability is born from inspiration within the individual.   Proving the ability to offer clear vision and support of Teams in their pursuit of Strategy, is the best evidence of Leadership.

People proclaim someone as their leader.  The professional title should reflect that acknowledgment by the Team.  Appointed leaders operating in a state of disconnection from Teams can damage a genuine leader’s reputation.

To mitigate these personal risks and spark wide-scale change, Harmony Consulting leverages Appreciative Inquiry and context specific coaching, including live observations, 363 degree assessments, and private coaching sessions concluding with practical insight and actionable plans.

Common Questions and Concerns of our clients include …

• I am having issues engaging my employees.
• My career is stuck,
• We need a strategic plan, but no one even agrees on what a strategic plan should look like.
• We don’t execute well.
• I am overwhelmed and juggling too many priorities.
• I have a conflict with a colleague and need to resolve it.
• My relationship with my boss is not as strong as it needs to be.
• I have been told that I need more leadership presence.
• I need to communicate with more impact.
• Our team is not performing well.
• We have a change initiative that is not getting enough traction.
• I have been given some tough feedback during my performance review, and need to correct some behaviors quickly.
• We need to provide better service and/or quality.
• A key executive is retiring soon, and we need a succession plan.
• My team is not aligned.
• I think that I have some limiting beliefs that are keeping me from being as effective as possible.
• My Board of Directors is weak.
• There is not enough accountability in this organization.
• I need to have a high-stakes conversation to influence someone and need your help.
• I need to overhaul my personal brand to stand out in the career marketplace.
• I am in a new role and need to hit the ground running.
• I need to make a career transition.

Coaching emphasis covers typically 3 to 8 of 30 common domains that Harmony Consulting assists with.

Harmony Coaching Modules include:

Leveraging both Everything DiSC Productive Conflict™ and The Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team™, Teams can enjoy a radically different experience.   By establishing a foundation for Team member perspectives, we naturally seek sincere understanding and give consideration to ideas counter to our own, which offers genuine respect to everyone.   This is the basis of Trust and Commitment to the Team’s goals and mission.

The DiSC™ Productive Conflict Model

Know your tendencies (under stress vs not) also known as your ‘style’…

 

Have you experienced this, on either side of the story?