{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Mission in Motion: A Minute With Maxwell","title":"DISC and the people side of care Pt. 2 | Nicole Belanger ","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2274,"description":"In this second part of our conversation with Nicole, host Heather Maxwell welcomes back Nicole Belanger, a DISC and leadership development specialist, to explore how positionality, bias, and the Wheel of Power and Privilege intersect with DISC to shape how leaders show up at work—especially in senior living, long-term care, and healthcare.\nNicole introduces the Wheel of Power and Privilege, a framework widely used in academic research to help people examine how their life experiences, identity, and unearned advantages influence the way they interpret situations. She explains concepts like positionality—“how my life experience shapes my perspective”—and Peggy McIntosh’s idea of the “invisible knapsack” of unearned advantages we all carry. Unlike DISC, which produces a clear behavioural profile, the wheel is a self-reflection tool that asks leaders to locate themselves across factors like race, gender, education, and socioeconomic status, and to notice where they experience power, privilege, or barriers.\nBuilding on that, Heather and Nicole connect the Wheel of Power and Privilege to the realities of multigenerational, multicultural teams in today’s workforce, where up to five generations may be working together. They share practical examples of how two leaders can observe the exact same behaviour —such as an employee asking a lot of questions or a younger leader bringing a laptop into a meeting—yet interpret it in radically different ways based on their experiences. Through these stories, Nicole illustrates how combining DISC (how people communicate) with the wheel (why people see the world the way they do) can reduce conflict, increase empathy, and improve engagement, retention, and psychological safety.\nListeners also hear why self-awareness is a non‑negotiable leadership skill that can’t be outsourced to AI. Nicole references research by organizational psychologist Dr. Tasha Eurich, whose work suggests that while 95% of people believe they’re self-aware, only...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/iI4L1kkhlrM_ExGkgUOTEHWL14qjU_NGtIEjGmg7Yy4/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8yNWY4/YzVmOWVjZjM2YmIx/NDUyZjBmOTRkY2Rh/ZmQ0OS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}