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THINK DiSC! ***How to work with the C style*** PROBLEM: Your teammate is incredibly detail-oriented, so much so it drives you kind of crazy. She's always asking questions of your ideas, and you find her to be THE BIGGEST skeptic when new ways of doing things are proposed. She is often the first one there in the morning and the last one to leave at night...and her perfectionistic tendencies are just too much sometimes! You wish she'd just turn off her computer and come have a beer with …

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THINK DiSC! ***How to work with the S style*** PROBLEM: Your teammate is such a warm and friendly soul, always the one to bring in cupcakes on someone's birthday or buy the retirement card for all to sign...fiercly loyal and willing to go the extra mile for the team...always. And, yesterday, she stormed out of the office in tears after you told her that were unexpectedly changing some things and needed her brief before Friday. WHA??? Why'd she respond so emotionally? You have no …

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THINK DiSC! ***How to work with the i style*** PROBLEM: What do you do when the newest hire to the team seems to be hard to corral, as he spends a lot of his day chatting it up, encouraging his teammates, and getting to know his officemates...? You are finding that he is challenging to focus and his follow-through is behind schedule already. He's a great guy, and everyone really, really likes him...and you just want to make sure that you can depend on him to pull his weight and to …

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