We'd like to introduce you to Tim Schwanz, one of our newest team members!
Here's some information about our Account Manager, Tim!
Position: Account Manager
Tenure: 3 months
Hobbies:
👫Spending time with family and friends in any capacity
🎣Taking advantage of the quick Minnesota weather with outdoor activities like golfing and fishing.
🏋️Pretending to be a personal trainer for my parents and a couple friends 3x a week at the gym
🏘️Woodworking and house projects
Favorite Foods / Meals:
Steak
My mom’s lasagna
Favorite Moment in the Industry:
I have a lot of great moments, but this was my personal “aha!” moment for DiSC, and why I’ve become such an advocate for it.
Here’s the background: I’m a strongly inclined i-Style, and my manager, at the time, was a strongly inclined DC Style. In other words, I was very people/relationship-oriented, and she was very task-oriented.
Early on in our working relationship, we would struggle seeing eye-to-eye–especially when she would give me a project. I often felt that she would shoot down my ideas and question the way I was doing things. For those of you who know DiSC well, you’re probably nodding your head and thinking to yourself, ‘Yep, she was doing something that came naturally to her–challenging you!’
And that’s very true. But I couldn’t see it at the time. Honestly, I felt attacked because it felt like the relationship didn’t matter. That is, until another coworker put the situation into my language. He asked me, “Tim, do you know how you love to collaborate?” I responded, “You just used one of my favorite words. You’re right, I do love to collaborate.” He then said back, “When someone has a DC style, challenge is their form of collaboration.”
The lightbulb turned on. I knew that when I was being challenged in projects and meetings, I just had to pause, reflect, and then shift my mindset to looking at these challenges as my manager’s way of collaboration with me."
Please join us in welcoming Tim to the team! We are so glad to have you!
CMO D_b_ Nike Alum.
3w🎯 for an insight right here, Brings a tear every time.