Everything DiSC Application Library Certification Special Offer!

For a limited time, get two of your employees certified for the price of one! Just register one person from your organization for the next Everything DiSC Trainer Certification on February 15-16, 2011, and the second person registers for free! That’s a savings of $900! The two-day training session in Minneapolis, MN is designed to help you and your team fully understand the DiSC theory and successfully implement the Everything DiSC Application Library products within your organization. Through classroom discussions, real life examples and group presentations, you will learn the research behind DiSC and its circular model. You will be introduced to the facilitator kits for Everything DiSC Workplace, Everything DiSC Management and Everything DiSC Sales. And what’s more, you will discover how to fully customize the kits to fit your organizations’ training needs. The training will also cover all of the Everything DiSC reports, including:

• Everything DiSC Workplace Profile
• Everything DiSC Management Profile
• Everything DiSC Sales Profile
• Everything DiSC Comparison Report
• Everything DiSC Facilitator Report
• Everything DiSC Group Culture Report

We recommend the certification program for any organization that is looking to get the most out of using the Everything DiSC Application Library kits and profiles. This is also great for organizations who would like a Certified DiSC Trainer on staff to conduct in-house training programs. Each participant is required to bring one of the Everything DiSC Application Library Facilitator Kits, all priced at $995. Registration fee is $900 for the first attendee and FREE for the second! Seats are filling up quickly, so please contact Corexcel at learn@corexcel.com or 1-888-658-6641 (Mon. – Fri. 9am – 5:30pm Eastern Time) for more information. Offer ends January 24, 2011! Limit one offer per organization.

About Everything DiSC Application Library
Everything DiSC Workplace offers 350x more personalized feedback than the popular DiSC Classic 2.0. Workplace introduces you to your DiSC style and takes it a step further by providing guidance on effectively communicating and working with co-workers of other DiSC styles. This profile is great for reinforcing teamwork or effective communication within all levels of your organization. Everything DiSC Management helps you determine your management style and its effects on the people that you work with. Your customized report will lead you in the direction of successfully motivating and delegating to your employees and working effectively with your superior. Everything DiSC Sales helps your sales team understand their selling style and introduces them to the buying styles of their customers. The profile helps your team determine their selling styles’ strengths and weaknesses, and, most importantly, how to adapt their selling style to each of their customers’ needs. Better communication = more sales. For more information on these or any other DiSC products, please contact us via email at learn@corexcel.com or 1-888-658-6641(Mon. – Fri., 9am – 5:30pm Eastern Time).

Nothing Compares to the NEW Comparison Report Batch Function!

I couldn’t resist with the title! If you read my latest blog entry about the EPIC batch function feature, you’re going to love my new post about the batch function for Comparison Reports! If you don’t know what Comparison Reports are, don’t worry, I’ll explain it all!

The Everything DiSC Application Library is a new group of products based on the DiSC theory:

• Everything DiSC Workplace – Workplace is seen as a more personalized and user-friendly upgrade to the original DiSC Classic 2.0 Profile. Workplace provides 350x more personalization and a circular model.
• Everything DiSC Sales – This report gives you (or your sales team) insight on your selling style and how to adapt to various buying styles. It also includes a FREE Customer Interaction Map.
• Everything DiSC Management – This gives you an idea of your management style and how it affects both direct reports and superiors.
• Everything DiSC 363 for Leaders – NEW! DiSC's version of a 360 Report. It provides personalized, approachable 360 degree feedback and 3 personalized strategies to carry forward.

You lost me at Comparison Report…

Comparison Reports are FREE 11-page, research-validated follow-up reports that can be generated for any two participants who have taken any of the above listed profiles. These reports help to illustrate the similarities and differences between two people, across 6 behavioral traits. You can create a comparison report for each person, so that they will have a personalized report based on their perspective working with the other person.

These reports are great to use as a follow-up to training, or to help with conflict resolution between two employees. A few months ago, my colleague and I (both iS’s) ran a Comparison Report for ourselves. What’s interesting is that although we had the same style, we were still far apart from each other on some of the scales. It just goes to show that even if two employees are similar in style, there is still much to learn using the Comparison Reports!

So, what’s so great about the new Comparison Report batch function?
Before the batch function, you would have to manually select each Comparison Report to generate, at a time. Could you imagine if you wanted to run comparison reports for your entire group? Now, you can generate multiple reports at once! And, you can even choose to run reports based on one person’s perspective, or choose to have all participants compared to one another. Excellent feature!

While you will be able to view, save and print these reports in a matter of minutes, they will also be automatically saved in your EPIC account for you.

Already have your Comparison Reports ready to go? Just use the original Batch Generation function to view all of them at the same time.

Overall, just like the original Batch Function, this new addition really makes creating and viewing Comparison Reports a very easy process! The Comparison Reports are such a neat addition to the Everything DiSC Application Library, I hope this increases the likelihood of using them… did I mention they’re free?

Need Clarification? Interested in learning more? Email us at learn@corexcel.com or call us at 1-888-658-6641, during the hours of 9am – 5:30pm Eastern Time, Monday-Friday.

New EPIC Feature Simplifies Report Generation

During my first month at Corexcel, I was assisting one of our clients with generating profile reports from recently taken Everything DiSC Workplace assessments using our EPIC account. Our client had sent out assessments to 30 different participants, and completed reports were trickling in here and there. Then, right before their assigned deadline, at least 15 came in within a few minutes of each other. I was able to send the completed reports to my contact, but it was a little bit tedious to generate and email each report, one by one. I thought to myself, “Wouldn’t it be convenient if we were able to generate a group of profile reports at one time?” While the new Batch Function was not my idea (Love Windows 7 commercials!), I have had the opportunity to try it out, and I find it to be a very useful tool that has simplified generating multiple profiles at once!

Time Saver!
Prior to this new function, you were able to import as many participants as you’d like to take the assessments, but you had to generate each completed report individually. Now, you can search for a specific group of reports, for example, DiSC Classic Profiles and generate all of them at once. This proves to be especially great for clients who are conducting a training session and have had a few last minute sign-ups or participants complete the reports after the assigned deadline.

Generating Reports is more convenient.
Once you have requested the appropriate reports to generate, EPIC gives you an estimated time of completion and notifies you when your batch is ready. Log in to your account, view the completed batch profiles and download them to your computer. That simple.

Emailing reports is quick and easy.
EPIC gives you a great option of emailing completed reports right through their system. While this cuts down on time, it can be a bit time consuming when having to email a large number of completed reports, one by one. When you’d like to send several completed reports at once, you can use the Batch function. The profiles are generated and saved into a compressed (WinZip file) as PDF’s. Since the profiles have been compressed in size (but not content) you can send them directly from your email address without worrying about the size of the message.

Helps keep you organized.
Previously, we had to download and save each completed report, one at a time. Downloading one batch file rather than 10 individual files means that all of the reports end up in the same folder, helping to keep things organized. You can also rename your folder and save it anywhere on your computer or flash drive.

Reports are easily identified.
The new batch feature not only creates a folder full of your profiles, but also names each report PDF by participant name and access code. This has certainly come in handy for me when having to resend profiles to clients; rather than generating a new report, I simply find it in my folder. It also reduces the amount of errors when sending reports to your supervisor – you will be sure you’re sending the right employee’s report, the first time.

Overall, I give batch function an A+. It is a great tool to add even more convenience to the already handy and user-friendly EPIC account. For those of you who may be hearing about EPIC for the first time, it is an online system which gives you 24/7 access to your “EPIC Credits,” the currency used to generate online profiles. You can send out assessments, track and generate completed reports and run group reports. You can also customize emails to send to your group including specific pre-work deadlines, background information or even photos. You also have the option of customizing reports to include your company logo and contact information. For a consultant or organization looking to implement online profiles for clients or employees, the EPIC account can be a great tool to simplify the process and keep your logo in front of your clients.

For more information on online profiles and EPIC, please contact Corexcel at 888-658-6641 or learn@corexcel.com.