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Board holds DISC communication workshop with MASB; members share preferences and next steps
Summary
The board attended a DISC behavioral-styles workshop led by the Michigan Association of School Boards; members completed assessments, discussed communication preferences and asked the presenter to provide follow-up materials and consider a deeper team debrief.
The Board of Education and district administrators spent a Saturday session on a DISC behavioral-styles workshop led by Mackenzie Felpusch of the Michigan Association of School Boards (MASB). The presenter explained the assessment and led the board through individual and team exercises intended to improve communication and team functioning.
"DISC is about how we do what we do," the MASB education programming manager said while introducing the typology. The session included an explanation of the four factors (Dominance, Influence, Steadiness, Compliance), natural versus adapted styles, and practical exercises to identify how board members prefer to be communicated with and what they find off-putting.
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