Taking Flight!: Master the DISC Styles to Transform Your Career, Your Relationships...Your Life, 1st edition

Published by FT Press (July 2, 2015) © 2016
  • Merrick Rosenberg
  • Daniel Silvert

Title overview

Taking Flight reveals profound hidden patterns of human behavioral style, offers a blueprint for deeper self-awareness, helps you maximize your own personal strengths, and shows how to influence others more powerfully than ever. You'll learn how to use the proven DISC four-style model of behavior to become a far more effective leader, salesperson, or teacher... revitalize any career... build better relationships... fully leverage your natural gifts, as you empower those around you. If you haven't yet been introduced to DISC, it will change your life -- just as it has for thousands before you. Discover:
  • Why you "click" with some people and "clank" with others
  • What really drives your decisions and actions
  • How to identify others' behavioral styles and choose the best ways to interact with them
  • How to craft a personal plan for maximizing your strengths and minimizing your weaknesses
Drawing on their immense experience coaching executives and training world-class organizations, Merrick Rosenberg and Daniel Silvert introduce DISC through a fable that's quick, fun, and easy-to-understand. Once you've mastered the basic concepts, they help you put DISC to work in all your own personal interactions and relationships. You'll walk through creating a personal action plan for improvement -- and then systematically supercharging your personal performance!

Use powerful, proven DISC techniques to build better personal relationships and dramatically improve your effectiveness.

  • Understand all 4 human behavioral styles, deepen self-awareness, and become a better leader, team member, salesperson, parent, teacher, or student
  • A fun-to-read fable and a practical framework: accessible, quick, and transformational
  • Create your action plan for improvement
  • Based on the authors' immense experience helping executives apply DISC to improve performance

Table of contents

About the Authors     x
Introduction     1
Part I: Taking Flight! The Fable     5
Chapter 1  Home 7
Chapter 2  The Forest Grid     11
Chapter 3  The Council     15
Chapter 4  An Old Friend     25
Chapter 5  The Aftermath     35
Chapter 6  If a Tree Falls in the Forest…     39
Chapter 7  Reconnaissance     47
Chapter 8  The Four Styles     55
Chapter 9  Reflection     63
Chapter 10  The Awakening     71
Chapter 11  The Home Rule     77
Chapter 12  The Stakeout     93
Chapter 13  The Gathering     107
Epilogue  The Power of DISC     113

Part II: The DISC Model     117
Go Online to Discover Your Style    120
The History and Mystery of the Four Styles     122
The Four Styles     123    
People Reading     127    
Seven Transformative DISC Principles     133

Part III: Applying the DISC Styles in Your Life     155
Steps for Reaching Your Highest Potential     157
DISC for Selecting an Educational and Career Path     165
DISC in the Work Environment     170
Tapping the Power of Style in Teams     174
DISC for Teaching and Coaching    185
Educating with DISC    187
Better Parenting with DISC     190
DISC Action Planning    198
DISC Mapping     203
Postscript     207

Appendix: Style Combinations     211

Author bios

Merrick Rosenberg, M.B.A., is an accomplished entrepreneur and keynote speaker. In 1991, he co-founded Team Builders Plus, the most recognized team-building company in the United States. Merrick has led team and leadership development training programs around the world for more than two decades. Drexel University honored Merrick as the Alumni Entrepreneur of the Year, and NJ Biz selected him as one of the New Jersey Executives of the Year. Under Merrick’s leadership, Team Builders Plus was recognized as the New Jersey Business of the Year by NJ Biz; one of the Fastest Growing Companies in the U.S. by Inc. magazine; and on numerous occasions, as one of the Fastest Growing Companies and Best Places to Work in the Philadelphia region by the Philadelphia Business Journal.


Daniel Silvert, B.A., is a sought-after keynote speaker and executive coach. Daniel has led training programs at every level on the DISC styles, leadership, teamwork, accountability, and transformational change. Daniel’s early background focused upon career development, coaching hundreds of executives through career transitions from both within and outside their organizations. Daniel has brought his unique perspective to hundreds of companies and government agencies, including Adidas, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Dell, Dow Jones, Home Depot, L’Oreal, L-3 Communications, Merck, SAP, Situs, W.L. Gore, and the Department of Homeland Security.

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