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Everything DiSC Workplace® Profile

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Everything DiSC Workplace® Profile
Everything DiSC Workplace®

The Everything DiSC® model is a simple tool used by people to connect better. Everything DiSC® is used by all the Wiley applications, including: Workplace®, Agile EQ™, Productive Conflict, Work of Leaders®, Management, Sales, and 363® for Leaders. The Everything DiSC® report uses your assessment results to provide a wealth of information about your workplace priorities and preferences. However, you also learn about colleagues whose priorities and preferences differ from yours.  

What if we had our needs and preferences written all over us? 
-Independence
-Reassurance
-Plans
-Just the Facts
-Less micromanagement
-Social interaction
-Results
-Support
-Listens to others
-Recognition

If there were only a way we could decode or decipher that information. Well, there IS a tool that helps you do that!
It’s called the Everything DiSC Workplace® Profile. 
The profile is built around the time-tested DiSC model. This amazing tool pinpoints your specific dot on the Everything DiSC map and provides you with work-centered priorities that are unique to you

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DiSC: Interaction Between Styles: i (Influence) with i (Influence)

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DiSC:  Interaction Between Styles:  i (Influence) with i (Influence)

Being familiar with the DiSC styles will help you be able to respond and keep communication moving forward.  Understanding yourself better is the first step to becoming more effective when working with others. However, as I’ve maintained, it is equally important to understanding the “other” styles with which you are dealing.  In today’s blog, we look someone with the primary style of i interacting with an individual whose primary style is ALSO i.   As an i (Influence) style, you thrive on Enthusiasm, Action, and Collaboration.  As such, you are not surprised to observe others with your i style also...

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DiSC: Interaction Between Styles: i (Influence) with D (Dominant)

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DiSC:  Interaction Between Styles:  i (Influence) with D (Dominant)

Being familiar with the DiSC styles will help you be able to respond and keep communication moving forward.  Understanding yourself better is the first step to becoming more effective when working with others. However, as I’ve maintained, it is equally important to understanding the “other” styles with which you are dealing.  In today’s blog, we look someone with the primary style of i interacting with an individual whose primary style is D. As an i (Influence) style, you thrive on Enthusiasm, Action, and Collaboration.  To you, others with the D (Dominant) style may appear: Driven Competitive Forceful Strong-willed The D...

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DiSC - Interaction Between Styles: D (Dominant) with S (Steady)

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DiSC - Interaction Between Styles:  D (Dominant) with S (Steady)
To the D style, the S style may seem more concerned with including everyone.  While the D is outspoken, the S is focused on group harmony.

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Responding to the "C" Style - Conscientious

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Responding to the "C" Style  -  Conscientious

In previous blogs, we learned about our TWO foundational aspects of the DISC styles: Pace & Priority. Per the model above, the Conscientious (C) style has a deliberate PACE (similar to the S or Steady style) and tends to be reserved and modest. Other descriptors of a high C might include exacting, analytical, factual, precise, accurate, and private. The C’s PRIORITY is task-oriented (versus people-oriented) and prefers following procedures (versus not).  C’s share a task orientation with D’s (Dominant).

 

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