What is DISC?
DISC Personality Profiling is a psychometric assessment that assesses personality, behavioural styles & preferences. DISC highlights cognitive challenges between the persons natural personality style and the ‘mask’ – their work personality expectations as part of a team or in a position of leadership.
DISC Personality profiling is only part of the picture and is a snapshot in time and very dependent on context, hence there is no good or bad profile. It should hence not be used to assess suitabiity for a role during recruitment processes where binary decison-making (Yes/No) are the primary outcomes.
Understanding our DISC profile helps us interpret, understand and improve communication with others. It indicates how we prefer to work under stress and how we leverage our strengths to achieve our goals.
DISC is a significantly validated personality assessment and as with most current psychometric assessments, originates from the work of the analytical psychologist Carl Gustav Jung and his work on ‘Psychological Types’.
Who does DISC benefit?
DISC can be used at work, for individual, with team members and throughout the organisation. DISC can be used for measuring and assessing relationships in the context of the work environment, for identifying career options and suitability during performance management conversations. DISC can also be effectively used in self-development, behavioural change, improvement of team performance and managing conflict. Information is power for the individual and DISC personality assessments give people an evidence-base to focus on Individual & Team Strengths.
What do you do once a DISC profile is completed?
Choose a trained executive coach and qualified DISC practitioner and schedule a feedback session of an hour. Our trained coaches who are also DISC practitioners are trained in providing DISC feedback and can help you identify what areas to focus on and where to take your first steps towards development.
Our coaches use DISC assessments as part of their multiple session coaching programmes and hence feedback usually forms part as one of the sessions in the coaching contract.
Where do you start?
Contact us through email with your phone number and reason for wanting a DISC profile and one of our trained practitioners will call you back and guide you through the process as well as schedule a feedback session.