All about DiSC® — DISC

In today’s DiSC® lesson, we will discuss responding to the D (or Dominant) style.  We are shifting from understanding the D style to more of interacting and responding.  I’ll address today’s topic from multiple perspectives: 1) those who are not familiar with the DiSC® technology or jargon, 2) those who ARE familiar with DiSC® and some understanding of each of the 4 styles, and 3) those who not only know of DiSC® but have taken the assessment and know their own style and other styles quite well. I’ll review D-specific information, then provide examples of responses to daily situations. Before we dive deeper, I...

Use of DiSC® is about choice and intention.  For example, I can go around all day being a D, leaving other styles in my wake by not choosing to use DiSC® and not being intentional.  Once you make the choice, it implies an intention to prepare for mutual communication success.  Here is a quick review of a couple points before we start “A Day in the Life of a TEAM.”

What is your management style?  What do you enjoy about management?  What drains your energy as a manager?  If there were only a way we could use your DiSC® style to provide help with your management priorities and preferences!  Well, there IS a tool that helps you do that!  

Introducing Everything DiSC® Management Profile.  As you guessed, it uses Everything DiSC® as the engine.

Work of Leaders® analyzes and distills the work of leadership researchers from the last 30 years. It approaches leadership as a one-to-many relationship, as opposed to the one-to-one relationship of management. It provides a simple, three-step process of 1) Creating a VISION, 2) Building ALIGNMENT, and 3) championing EXECUTION of that vision. It's a critical resource for today's developing leaders and is built on developing preferred behaviors that are based on best practices.

Most of us rely on familiar responses not because they’re the best choices, but because they’re what we know.  If there were only a way, we could navigate outside our comfort zone so that we could choose the most effective response every time.  Well, there IS a tool that helps you do that!

 Introducing Everything DiSC® Agile EQ™.  As you guessed, it uses Everything DiSC® as the engine.  Agile EQ™ provides a simple way to understand yourself and the kinds of EQ that may come naturally to you.  Mind you, we talk about your DiSC® style in terms of “what comes naturally to you”, while illuminating “what comes as a stretch to you”.  That’s what we call Agility.