Better understand yourself and those around you, improve communication, and create more harmonious, productive environments.
The DiSC Assessment is an incredibly valuable personal assessment tool utilized by over a million people each year for the purpose of making meaningful improvements to their teamwork, communication, and overall productivity in the professional environment. This assessment is designed to help people identify their own unique strengths and weaknesses, allowing them to learn how to work with those of others in order to build stronger and more successful teams. It also provides insight into how to better communicate and collaborate with colleagues, resulting in improved workflows and productivity. By using this assessment, individuals can gain a deeper understanding of themselves and their colleagues, ultimately leading to a more effective and harmonious workplace.
In this article, we will explore six different ways to leverage your DiSC Assessment results to maximize the effectiveness of your professional and personal life. These six strategies draw upon the insights of the DiSC Assessment to help you better understand yourself and those around you, improve communication, and create more harmonious, productive environments.
1. Increase self-awareness of personality style and strengths
To give you some context, DiSC is an acronym and it stands for:
There is no DiSC style that is inherently "better" than the others, as we all tend to use each of the four styles in our daily lives. DiSC assessments help us identify which style we tend to draw towards the most. From your DiSC Assessment results, you will be able to gain insight into your basic natural inclinations, or behavioral style.
This provides you with a deeper understanding of how people perceive you in a personal, social, or work setting. At Ascend ActionCOACH, we find that the way this information is displayed brings a lot more self-awareness to how we interact with others and how we experience different situations.
2. Recognize others’ personalities
Similar to receiving a diagnosis and a deeper understanding of your personality trait, your DiSC Assessment results will also offer valuable insights and takeaways for people with other personality types.
These results were devised to build successful and fortified teams and can help you in your career, business, and interpersonal life. Based on the personality style and strengths you are, you will receive advice on how to best build trust, resolve conflict, encourage commitment, increase accountability, and see results with other personality styles.
3. Better communication based on personality type
As expected, communication style is completely different from one personality type to the next. When people have differences, communication can become difficult and cause tension. The amount of tension depends on how different the parties are and how aware they are of their differences. It also depends on how well they can adapt to each other's needs and other factors.
It's important to recognize that differences in communication styles contribute to a diverse team. This diversity can lead to creativity and innovation. Embrace opposing styles and adapt accordingly, rather than avoiding them.
Managing diverse communication styles within a team can lead to better performance by encouraging engaging and dynamic conversations.
4. Understand what enables you
Do you know what truly drives you? How do you evaluate opportunities? Your DiSC Assessment results present building blocks so you can elucidate the root cause of your satisfaction and fulfillment.
Your primary motivation is based on the life experiences and events you have been exposed to. The idea is to better understand what motivates you to perform, which in turn leads to a sense of achievement. In some cases, people might have a combination of these factors, but there is usually one that presents itself as the primary driver.
5. Identify behaviors you need to develop and strengthen
To bring this article altogether, we covered that your DiSC assessment offers you self-awareness and tactical tools to perform at your highest capacity. Ascend ActionCOACH, we go a step further and help you connect those learnings to behaviors you need to achieve your personal and professional goals by honing in on your adapted behaviors. Recognizing the behaviors is not about changing who you are, but adapting to the different environments to achieve your goals. Our professional, leadership, and executive coaching sessions give you the additional tools to be intentional about the next steps that will impact today, tomorrow, and the rest of your life.
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