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 What is DiSC®?
DiSC is a well developed model of human behavior that is used to improve performance, deal more effectively with conflict, and value differences. Using the research-based DiSC model helps you better understand why you act the way you do. The DiSC assessment is at the heart of many of the training programs we offer.
DiSC Dimensions of Behavior provide a nonjudgmental language for exploring behavioral issues across four primary dimensions:
- Dominance: Direct and Decisive. D’s are strong-willed, strong-minded people who like accepting challenges, taking action, and getting immediate results.
- Influence: Optimistic and Outgoing. i’s are “people people” who like participating on teams, sharing ideas, and energizing and entertaining others.
- Steadiness: Sympathetic and Cooperative. S’s are helpful people who like working behind the scenes, performing in consistent and predictable ways, and being good listeners.
- Conscientiousness: Concerned and Correct. C’s are sticklers for quality and like planning ahead, employing systematic approaches, and checking and re-checking for accuracy.
Personal Insight into Behavioral Preferences and Inclinations: Help people understand their habits and behavioral tendencies in a manageable and systematic way.
- Understand the work environments that are most and least comfortable for you
- Develop a stronger sense of your task-oriented and relationship-oriented work habits
- See how your dominant characteristics can be both strengths and drawbacks
- Understand how others interpret your actions
- Learn the strategies you use to understand, influence, and relate to other people
- Understand the sources of your frustrations at work, if you are consistently required to behave in a way that is incompatible with your personal style
- Learn more about your fears and behavioral tendencies when you are under pressure
- Understand what motivates you in your relationships and find ways to maximize this motivation
Appreciation of Personal Diversity: Help people understand how others might have personalities and behavioral styles that are different from their own.
- Understand that others may have different motivations, priorities, and instincts that compete with your own
- Learn about tendencies and biases you have when reading the behavior of others
- Understand how others might interpret or misinterpret your behaviors
A Common Language to Understand and Discuss Personality: Help people develop a language through which they can efficiently and accurately discuss interpersonal concerns.
- Learn a better, simpler model to understand the complexity of human behavior
- Organize your experience with co-workers, friends, and loved ones into a usable format
- Create a common language to discuss your unique subjective experiences
Dialogue About Personality Preferences and Differences: Help people create a forum in which an open discussion about personality differences is not only accepted, but encouraged.
- Understand that differences do not necessarily lead to conflict
- Understand that there are no right or wrong interpersonal preferences, just differences
- Create a safe forum to discuss differences
- Create a culture of acceptance around diverse interpersonal styles
Relating to Individuals with Different Personalities: Help people develop strategies and skills that will mend or improve the quality of interpersonal relationships within a social setting.
- Understand that although people need to adjust at times, their preferences are not necessarily wrong
- Develop new communication strategies and contracts about communication
- Withhold judgment to see a situation from multiple perspectives
- Adapt your personal tendencies, when appropriate, to facilitate harmonious relationships
- Increase empathy and compassion for the perspectives and struggles of others
- Communicate your frustrations in a less threatening fashion
- Learn how to reduce misinterpretations of interpersonal behaviors
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