DISCy Chicks Cindy Jacoby and Martha Forlines

Succession Planning


The DISCy Chicks wrap up they Employee Lifecycle series on using the many tools offered by TTISI to enable leaders to build their bench strength within their organization. The job benchmarking process is revisited as you look at the employees that you think are highly promotable. Cindy and Martha have conducted job benchmarking sessions for their clients using subject matter experts within a client's business. (You can listen to previous sessions on job benchmarking using the DISCy Chicks link below.) Once the benchmark is completed, you can then use the Tri-Metrix DNA assessment (that includes behaviors, driving forces and 25 competencies) to compare your current employee's qualifications for a promotion.  Bottom line, you have more data to objectively choose the best employee for the job. This quote comes to mind for us, "Great leaders develop other leaders."


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Applying Assessment Results  for Employee Development


Cindy and Martha share their experience and wisdom in strategically developing your employees. The DISCy Chicks recommend one-on-one meetings with your direct reports once a week for thirty minutes, which are accountability meetings for both of you. They also recommend giving feedback in a very specific way vs. a very generalized way.  

Remember to review your employee's assessment to make sure you are communicating with their style in mind to make your time together more effective.  In these meetings you can flex your coaching muscles and help your employees to come of up with  their own solutions, where your role is to ask really good questions. Mentoring is also another way to grow your employees by pairing them with a mentor that has strengths your employee needs to more fully develop. Lastly, you can give directions when you delegated a new task your employee has never done before! As leaders you are persistently improving your self-awareness and for this we use the emotional intelligence assessment, which is very robust. Enjoy!! 


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The DISCy Chicks talk about assessments that can boost the bonding process for you and your new employee. Why wait 90 days to see how your new hire is fitting in? We recommend on Day 1 that the manager review new hire's  assessment with with hime or her and  even better, to review the manager's report too. You can merge both reports into a  comparison report to show the new employee's DISC profile as well as the manager's report, side by side.

There is also the "gap report" produced during  the job benchmarking process that indicates a new hire's strengths for the role as well as areas of development. And finally, we recommend updating your team report to include the new hire and share in a team meeting to see where and how the new team member fits in, and what he or she brings to the party!

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Assessments that enable employee life cycle success


Cindy Jacoby and Martha Forlines continue the conversation on how employee assessments can enable greater success in the employee attraction and talent acquisition stage of the employee life cycle. The DISCy Chicks describe how the DISC Behaviors, Driving Forces and Competencies (TriMetrix DNA) is used effectively in the job benchmarking process to get to "why" the job exists. 

Key accountabilities are identified by the subject matter experts that do the work everyday. From the key accountabilities, a more accurate job description can be written and the key requirements identified in order to write ads that attract the talent you are seeking! 


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Ways to use  Assessments throughout the Employee Life Cycle: Attraction, Selection, Onboarding, Development, Engagement, and Separation. 

The DISCy Chicks give you an overview of each step of the life employee life cycle in this podcast. As a leader, assessments give you great insight into each of your team members so you can leverage their strengths and manage their vulnerabilities during the time they work for you. Listen for tips on how assessments can enable you to lead your team in a positive way that enables long term success for your business and for your team members. Over the next 90 days Cindy and Martha will do a deep dive into each step in the employee life cycle and how assessments can be a great enabler for success!

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Do you resolve to give back?   To volunteer more? 

The DISCy Chicks explore all twelve of the Driving Forces that enable you to find "giving" or outreach opportunities in your community that fit your top two motivators! Listen and learn about each of the driving forces, and understand the "how and why" behind each of these when it comes to finding real satisfaction in your "giving" at this time of the year. Cindy and Martha share great examples of activities that can fulfill you at this time of year and for that matter all year long! Our assessment vendor, TTISI has a great blog you can read that was used to create this week's recording! We both wish you a new year of happiness and fulfillment. 


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