LEAD Program
Cohort 11
Action Items Page
This page is your central location for everything related to your program. Here, you’ll find what you need before, during, and between workshops — including resources, links, and action items to complete between sessions. Bookmark this page and return to it regularly to stay on track and prepare for each workshop.
Your participation, reflection, and follow-through will directly support your growth.
Development Process
Your HRD Team
Dr. Ali Atkison
VP, Learning & Development
ali@hrdleadership.com
Questions on logistics, assessments, invitations, communications
HRDPrograms@hrdleadership.com
Materials
Please have your DiSC report accessible at each workshop.
Action Items
- Complete your DiSC and Pre-Competency Assessments (see information below)
The DiSC Workplace Assessment provides valuable insight into who you are and how you lead. You will use the assessment report throughout the program. There is a sample DiSC email (*below) so you know what to expect. It will come from HRD Leadership <hrdleadership@wiley-epic.com>.
The assessment takes less than 20 minutes to complete. You will need to complete your assessment by March 17 and you will have immediate access to your results upon completion. Once completed, please review your DiSC Assessment report (pages 1-6).
*Sample DiSC email:
From: HRD Leadership <hrdleadership@wiley-epic.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2023 9:50 AM
To: annies@hrdleadership.com
Subject: HRD Leadership has registered you for: Everything DiSC Workplace Profile
Everything DiSC Workplace Profile
This email will help you get set up to take the Everything DiSC Workplace Profile assessment.
First, you’ll be asked to create an account with an email and password or sign into your existing account. Then, you’ll proceed to the assessment. To get started, click the following link:
Take my assessment
If you have trouble using the link above, go to https://www.wiley-epic.com and enter the Access Code shown here:
GQ5DCSXWCD
Please note:
1. This is your personal Access Code. Do not share it or this e-mail with others.
2. Once you create your account credentials (email and password), you will use them to access any future Report(s) associated with your account.
Pre-Competency Assessment
The pre-competency assessment will establish a baseline for your confidence and competence-level on a variety of
leadership competencies. Please watch for an email from hrdprograms@hrdleadership.com via SurveyMonkey <member@surveymonkeyuser.com>. The pre-assessment takes less than 10 minutes to complete. Please complete by March 17.
- Meet with your accountability partners. Use the discussion questions below to talk through your thinking, test ideas, and learn from one another’s perspectives.
- Meet with your manager. Use the same questions to explore application, identify barriers, and discuss how our manager can support practice and reinforcement.
- Your discussion questions:
- What are your take-aways from Above the Line?
- What are your values? Why did you choose them, and how will you live them?
- What are your strengths/opportunities from your DiSC report?
- Begin work on your Leadership Mission.
- Plot your team members on the DiSC wheel (in handout), and answer the questions about gaps, strengths, and tensions.
- Complete the Action Plan for Success in your handouts.
- Watch The Golden Rule Goes Platinum (Angela McMillan/TedX)
- Meet with your accountability partner to discuss the following questions :
- What actions are you planning to adapt communication to someone else’s DiSC style?
- What obstacles are you planning ahead for?
- How did insights from Angela McMillan’s TedX talk help inform these choices?
- Continue working on your Leadership Mission.
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