Construction Connection Adds ‘Everything DiSC Workplace’ to Consulting Simplified Program
(PRWEB) July 30, 2013 -- Construction Connection, the online hiring and networking resource for professionals in the construction and building industry, is expanding their Consulting Simplified program with the introduction of the Everything DiSC Workplace Profile. This assessment tool is designed to help individuals and companies recognize and understand their communication style, which builds better communication and more synergistic teams. Construction Connection is now a certified vendor of the Everything DiSC Workplace assessment, so they can start introducing it to their clients and members.
DiSC is a type of personality and behavior assessment developed by psychologist William Marston in 1928, and is widely used by businesses and individuals. The DiSC assessment is based on four key aspects of personality: Dominance, Influence, Steadiness and Conscientiousness. Upon completing the online assessment, individuals and or their managers receive a 22-page detailed report that offers insight into their personality style, how to understand others’ styles and how to effectively build better relationships, specifically at work. Suzanne Breistol and Kent Leighton, the Co-Founders of Construction Connection, use DiSC to help their Consulting Simplified clients create communication channels for their employees to foster an environment of trust and respect, which creates a more unified and productive management team.
“We have been working with small to mid-sized business owners to help them fine-tune their businesses to run more efficiently,” says Breistol. She adds, “Consulting Simplified was born out of this idea. Kent [Leighton] and I have been in the construction industry for many years and know that positive communication between individuals can make a project succeed or fail, build relationships up or tear them down. We are constantly working with contractors and their staff to identify operational issues and implement solutions to improve their business models and strengthen their team’s foundation. Now, by offering Everything DiSC Workplace we can help them in a new exciting way.”
DiSC helps people understand their strengths, which can help them discover what roles they are best suited for within an organization, and how well their personal communication style gels with their colleagues. For example, an individual with a high Dominance score is going to be assertive, direct and results-oriented. These individuals make excellent leaders and find success in careers as executives, project managers, contractors and superintendents. Individuals with a high Conscientiousness score are systematic, detail-oriented, careful and neat. High C scorers make great cost estimators, engineers, architects and administrators.
When taught to recognize and understand each others' communication and work styles, these seemingly different individuals can compliment and motivate one another. DiSC provides strategies for managers and business owners to help these individuals communicate better and work together, rather than against each other. These approaches can be invaluable to construction companies where projects are fast-paced, margins are thin and schedules are tight.
“Compatibility in the workplace isn’t always something employers think about when they are assembling their project teams, mainly because they are behind the curve in staffing the job and it becomes a manpower crisis,” Leighton explains. “Putting a group of people together, without understanding their working styles, doesn’t constitute a team, rather it creates a group individuals that may or may not be compatible to accomplish a goal. Our job is to identify dysfunctional teams and teach them to row the boat with cadence in the same direction. It’s important for individuals to identify and learn to appreciate others’ styles and strengths in order to work together successfully.”
While the Consulting Simplified program goes well beyond teaching individuals their strengths and how work together, the addition of the Everything DiSC Workplace Profile to the Construction Connection arsenal can be hugely beneficial for companies and individuals. Through learning what people do best and how they work together, project managers and construction company owners can build stronger, more profitable businesses.
ConstructionConnection.com was created out of a need for a more effective and streamlined way for construction industry professionals to get matched with the right industry jobs and with the right industry opportunities. The partners of Construction Connection, both industry professionals themselves, listened to both company and individuals’ dissatisfaction with the traditional job boards, the paid resume blasts, the overpriced resume services and overall lack of sympathy toward the individual candidate. They listened to the dissatisfaction from companies who post jobs only to get many irrelevant results or having to purchase high priced ads to showcase their company. Construction Connection is a patent-pending, one-of-a-kind profile creating / match-making system. The system delivers effective results. Construction Connection saves you time, money and aggravation by matching people to people, people to companies, companies to people, and company to company.
Kent Leighton, Construction Connection, http://www.constructionconnection.com/, (877) 545-4473, [email protected]
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