Testimonial - Greeting,Weakness,Building Relationship,DISC

Submitted by Gary Gilbert
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I had a job interview today. I started listening to Manager Tools about 3 months ago. Hmmmm . . .what a coinicidence. How about my first greeting, the handshake, smile. . . CHECK How about walking into the office . . .CHECK How about the Weakness Question . . .CHECK This worked like a charm!!!!!! Building Relationships (how many times does Mark mention that?) I used this as a basis for my discussions of what I would do as as a project manager. The response I got . . ."That is really refreshing to hear . . ." CHECK Make you manager look good . . ."I sure wish others would do that . . ." "How do you handle communicating with people . . ." - I often use a model called DISC (then explain it). Succesful communication is based on the receiver . . . If one can help communicate better by matching the behavior of the person one is communicatin with . . . CHECK The result? [b]"If you are interested, I would really like to have you back to meet with my boss and HR. I'm interested in hiring you . . ."[/b] CHECK! Thanks you guys! I mean, you really built a model for me to use in my day-to-day work, and translating this further into the interview has gotten me to the next step at a company I am extremely interested in working at, and getting a job I've wanted for a LONG TIME![/i]
Submitted by Wendii Lord on Thursday February 22nd, 2007 5:10 am

Strings,

having a MT manager to interview must be a dream! But good job on remembering, articulating and demonstrating the values - only you can do that... unless we can get Mark to come to interviews with us!

Wendii

Submitted by Michael Auzenne on Thursday February 22nd, 2007 9:37 am

Everybody else said it well .... awesome job! Congratulations on PRACTICING the behaviors. I love your approach; perhaps if we all looked for opportunities to practice the behaviors each day, we'd all have similar results. ;-)