How the DISC System Can Help You Understand Behaviors & Improve Your Career
Behavioral research suggests that the most effective people understand both their strengths and weaknesses. Understanding means you acknowledge those traits, nurture them, and lean in to them. It’s more than just being aware what they are. A weakness of mine is getting to know people personally. I love people, don’t get me wrong. What’s hard for me is getting to know them personally, remembering their kids’ names, remembering what’s happening in their lives outside of work. I get so focused on work and our goals, sometimes the simplicity of being a human slip away. I am not just aware of this weakness I understand it. It’s a daily task for me.
I have two best practices: when I leave the office, I walk the rows of the offices and cubicles and chat a bit as walk out. The second thing is I have an excel sheet on each member of the team and I review it prior to all one on one’s and after all one on one’s. I update at the end of each one on one, so I have notes on their kids, spouses, trips, likes, goals, etc. It’s a way for me to lean in to my weakness.
We offer the DISC Assessment and it will measure four dimensions of behavior.
How you respond to problems and challenges
How you influence others to your point of view
How you respond to the pace of the environment you are in
How you respond to rules and procedures set by others
I took the DISC for the first time a few years ago and then I met with my business coach to review it. I focused in my strengths and weaknesses. I was more self-aware and was able to really think about the team and how I react to them. I became a different leader and six months later I was promoted to my biggest role yet.
