Workplace Harmony – Understanding Different Personality Types
Extended DISC Certified Coach, Lucy Smith, joins Julie South and Tania Bruce on how to recognise the four different personality types in your Veterinary Clinic.
Lucy Smith, an extended disc certified practitioner who works with teams throughout New Zealand.
Lucy asks questions like what if you could open a window into yourself, your behaviours and those on your team members, and uncover behaviours and motivations you didn’t even realise you had?
What if you could use that information to improve everyone’s performance, understand each other better and reduce workplace conflict?
What about what if you could get a full picture of everyone’s interpersonal role in a team and spot areas for development?
Or what about what if all those awkward conversations became easier?
Workplace Harmony and Values
Lucy believes in being led by your values.
She also doesn’t believe in glorifying stress or hustle.
She lives in Hamilton, new Zealand, with her husband, their daughter, a snuggly white collie and a talkative tabby cat.
For Lucy, life’s all about the simple things A really good coffee, a quiet evening by the fire with a peppermint tea, the smell of the garden walking at the dog somewhere with trees.
In 2011, she started business as a copywriter.
Why?
Because it was the GFC and she couldn’t find a job that fitted into the narrow band of what she thought she should.
Basically, she did what everyone said she should do, assuming that it was what she wanted, and left on what she describes as the comfortable blinkers.
But she then ended up spending her life constantly chasing a set of instructions, feeling like she was in actor mode in her own life, going to corporate meetings in a nice but uncomfortable shirt and worrying if she was playing the right part.
In hindsight, she said she didn’t really know what her values were, but they were definitely misaligned with what she was doing.
But she didn’t know herself well enough to realise that or to dig any deeper. It wasn’t even that she hated what she was doing. She had great clients she considered a privilege to work with.
Tune in because today we pick up on the conversation where Julie South asked Lucy when she knew that disc personality profiling and coaching was what she wanted to do.
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