She says her first three-day PCM experience showed her the differences and similarities in those around her and made it transferrable. No other personality test added the kind of insight to organizational culture as to how people are motivated or how to invite people out of distress, Weber says.
“Through PCM you gain a lot of self awareness and learn how to proclaim a message of who you are as a church,” Ratzlaff says. “It helps us on a daily basis with our interactions with people of all styles. I love that it helps embrace each person’s diversity and gifts and helps you know how to make leadership choices and to honor everyone’s gift when moving a group forward.”
Ran across this article and thought we’d share. (Remember, we do training that increases self-efficacy, and we train other trainers how to do it too!) Efficacy vs. Esteem
In a remote area in the Calabasas hills, there is a stone building, an outdoor amphitheater, a tree house and a garden. Children come here each day, ages preschool through 5th grade, to follow their passion. The lessons are based on what they want to learn that day. A simple question to a teacher like, “How does a robot work?” can turn into months of instruction and international Skyping to engineer and build a working robot, just to see how it is done.
The entitled PCM user seeks special treatment because of their personality, or expects others to tolerate them without accountability. “Hey, as a Rebel, I need a hands-off management style, so back off and leave me alone.” This is entitled, selfish behavior, and it’s a misuse of PCM.
Hiring and retaining talented people isn’t enough these days. If your skilled resources aren’t focused on the right things and motivated to give 100 percent, you might end up like a sports team with a big payroll, a bench of sidelined stars and a losing season. Read this article in the Wichita Eagle, published April [...]
FEATURED CLIENT: EMC Insurance * CONTEST: Win a copy of Dan Pink’s DRIVE * PCM THROUGH THE GENERATIONS: Gen X * ASK PROCESS MAN: Where could PCM have the most impact on patient care? * HOT WING UPDATE: Dale LeBar
Never under estimate the impact of a former employee. This is particularly true when dismissing or laying off employees. One of the most important yet neglected aspects of layoffs is how the person is treated in the process.
The Process Communication Model® (PCM) offers an effective process to increase communication. It is designed to “promote understanding, recognition, prediction, and action.” When listeners are able to predict what the speaker will say next, the greatest level of brain coupling and comprehension occurs. Speakers and organization leaders can use PCM to increase the probabilities of coupling – of clicking and being in sync with their listeners.
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