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October 28, 2011
Mobile Apps and Training

We asked 2,793 recent training participants about the use of mobile devices and apps in the workplace. Of our respondents, 42 percent said they used mobile apps at least sometimes to very often with training. And nearly half of the respondents had downloaded a mobile app to improve their job performance—even though their employer did not require it.

By Mark Scullard, Director, Research, and Jeffrey Sugerman, President and CEO, Inscape Publishing

July 22, 2011
Everything Disc Pulse: Onboarding Success

We surveyed 2,829 recent training participants about onboarding in their current company. People who received a summary of the organization's mission said they were able to “significantly contribute to the organization” four weeks earlier (on average) than those who did not. They also were able to figure out how important decisions got made in the organization six weeks earlier than those who did not.

By Mark Scullard, Director of Research, and Jeffrey Sugerman, President and CEO, Inscape Publishing

June 2, 2011
Leaders’ Path to Improvement

Short of completing a 360, how is a leader supposed to know what he or she most needs to work on? The first step is to bring personality into the equation—for them to ask, “What kind of leader am I?” Using a model of the eight dimensions of leadership can help to identify the leadership “blind spots” associated with particular leadership styles.

By Mark Scullard, director of research, and Jeffrey Sugerman, president and CEO, Inscape Publishing

In our May-June 2011 print article, we discussed what people want from their leaders. As part of a 360-degree assessment, we gave 16,619 participants—or raters—the chance to give feedback on what leadership practices their leaders should do more often. The three most common requests for leaders were:

October 13, 2010
Everything Disc Pulse Index

Welcome to "Everything DiSC Pulse," brought to you by Trainingmagazine and Inscape Publishing. Every other month, we’ll provide the results of a survey conducted by Inscape for Trainingmagazine. Inscape Director of Research Mark Scullard and President and CEO Jeffrey Sugerman will analyze the results and provide the learner's perspective on training: what's important, what works, and what doesn't work for learners.

Welcome to "Everything DiSC Pulse," brought to you by Trainingmagazine and Inscape Publishing. Every other month, we’ll provide the results of a survey conducted by Inscape for Trainingmagazine. Inscape Director of Research Mark Scullard and President and CEO Jeffrey Sugerman will analyze the results and provide the learner's perspective on training: what's important, what works, and what doesn't work for learners.

Looking for previous Everything DiSC Pulse survey results? Just click on the links below.

September 21, 2010
The Annual Performance Review

Pretty soon we’ll all be asked to complete our annual rite of passage. It’s the thing we dread most; we quake in our cubicles, we talk about in hushed tones around the coffee maker, yet we dare not speak its name: The Annual Performance Review. Everyone hates performance reviews, right? Wrong.

By Jeffrey Sugerman, president and CEO, and Mark Scullard, director of research, Inscape Publishing

Pretty soon we’ll all be asked to complete our annual rite of passage. It’s the thing we dread most; we quake in our cubicles, we talk about in hushed tones around the coffee maker, yet we dare not speak its name: The Annual Performance Review. Everyone hates performance reviews, right? Wrong.

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