All about DiSC® — Influence

In today’s DiSC® lesson, we will discuss a deeper and broader understanding of the i or (Influence) style.  This will be helpful whether it is YOU who are an i style, or if it is someone else with whom you deal that is an i style.  Furthermore, AS an i, this will help you interact with another i.

My goal here is to show you how to apply DiSC® wherever you are.  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 our “Day in the Life of a C.”

Today we will continue by going deeper into the actual use and application of your DiSC® knowledge by following a particular style throughout a normal day.  However, it is my hope to have you weave DiSC® into your communication wherever you may be – work and non-work settings.  In today’s lesson, we’ll share “A Day in the Life of an i (Influence)”.  For simplicity, let’s call our i style Irene. My goal here is to show you how to apply DiSC® wherever you are.  Use of DiSC® is about choice and intention.  Once you make the choice, it implies an intention to prepare for...

In today’s blog, we look at someone with the primary style of C (Conscientious) interacting with an individual whose primary style is I (Influence).

As a C (Conscientious) style, you thrive on ensuring accuracy, maintaining stability, and challenging assumptions.  The C style is motivated by opportunities to use expertise or gain knowledge combined with attention to quality.  To you, others with the i (Influence) style may appear:

• Outgoing
• Social
• Optimistic
• High-spirited
• Lively
• Talkative

Learn how to seemingly quite different styles can have the tools and understanding to communicate efficiently and effectively.

In today’s blog, we look at someone with the primary style of i interacting with an individual whose primary style is S. As an i (Influence) style, you thrive on Enthusiasm, Action, and Collaboration.  To you, others with the S (Steady) style may appear: Supportive Patient Accommodating Even-tempered Humble Tactful The S is motivated by opportunities to provide support, maintain an orderly environment, and collaborate.  They most likely prefer working in an environment where they are well-liked and can perform their job consistently.  NOTE:  When it comes to PACE and PRIORITY, the S has a reserved, more deliberate PACE dissimilar...