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Being a small team of 8, we have always thought our team culture was amazing. As our business has grown we’ve engaged Michelle to assist us with refining our strategy, mentoring our leadership team and developing individuals – taking our team culture to a new level.

As a team, we’ve been lead through a series of Leadership Workshops with Michelle. The result of each session saw our team leaving inspired, encouraged and empowered to approach challenges with a different perspective, whilst working on becoming better leaders both individually and as a team.
 
Prior to our workshops, everyone in the team completed an Extended DISC profile. We’d never done anything like this before. The results were incredibly insightful. We all discovered things about ourselves that we weren’t aware of.  It was so interesting to see the difference in our Profiles from who we are most naturally (Natural Style) to how we adjust and change our behavior when we come to work (Adjusted Style).

Whilst the Extended DISC profiles initially gave us an in-depth understanding of ourselves, when we shared our profiles with each other, we gained greater respect for one another which took our relationships to a much deeper level. Our team now communicates more openly and honestly than ever before and we can honestly saw we’ve never had a culture this good.

Since we’ve been working with Michelle, the self-awarenessof our team has grown immensely.

From who we are as individuals, how we interact as a team, to how we communicate internally and with our clients, we’ve been able to reach new levels of honest and open conversations.

Without a doubt, we’ve been able to lift underperforming team members and help them achieve their potential.

We’ve used Disc as a tool for both current and incoming team members to help facilitate and start conversations around success and development.

Thanks again for the support and clarity.

I’m a builder + carpenter by trade, and with this comes a very stereotypical attitude toward people. You turn up to work, you do your job and you get paid. Simple, right? Well yes, this was the case when it was just a few of the boys, and myself slogging away on site. But as our company has grown toward 40+ staff, a shift of mindset was required to maintain a harmonious, happy and freely communicative workplace both onsite and in the office.

This is exactly when I met Michelle on the footpath, as she was loading the kids into the car for school. After a very direct conversation about the current state of affairs both in our office and my leadership in the company, a meeting was arranged to further discuss these issues and gain traction on the direction we were heading for.

I was immediately comfortable with Michelle, yet extremely skeptical about the effectiveness and accuracy of what was proposed to profile each of our staff using DISC. So, I decided to do it first myself to test the waters. To put it simply, I was both shocked and amazed at the accuracy of the results. So, I immediately arranged for everyone to take part in individual profiling and one on ones with Michelle. Again, the warmth and empathy from Michelle allowed all our team to literally break free of the shells I had no idea some were hiding in! This was followed by a group session which was not cheesy or typical team build style, more an open chat and mingle about our experience and light-hearted humor surrounding our individuality we had discovered in one another. Since then, many of my staff have reached out to Michelle and continued to monitor and progress personal goals.

Based on my experience, I would highly recommend Michelle to not only increase productivity and harmony in a workplace but open the doors to gaining a deeper understanding of the individuals which make up a team. Michelle is able to achieve this via a warm, friendly, educated, honest and if need be a direct approach to what she does.