If you want a quick review of your own style, or if you’re looking for help working with a C-style person, we hope this short summary will help you out.
How well or how strongly this matches your own C style will depend on how close your dot is to the edge. The less strongly inclined you are to this style—or the closer your dot is to the center—the more likely it is that some of these traits will be expressed less frequently.

The Hat Makes the Man by Max Ernst
A quick look at the C style
Traits associated with this personality: Detached, accurate, restrained, reserved, conscientious, disciplined, analytical, logical, rational, skeptical, fact-finder, nit-picking, diligent, private
Goals: Accuracy, objective processes
Fears: Being wrong, strong displays of emotion
Influences others through: Logic, exacting standards
Overuses: Analysis, restraint
In conflict: Focuses on logic and objectivity; overpowers with logic and facts
Would increase effectiveness through: Acknowledging others’ feelings, looking beyond data
Leadership qualities of the C style
The C-style leader leader can be conscientious, providing high-quality outcomes through careful analysis and planning. They can also be risk-averse, perfectionist leaders who pay little attention to the human element.
Other C styles
Curious about your own style?
We recommend taking Everything DiSC Workplace. Other Everything DiSC profiles are available for Management, Sales, Productive Conflict, and Work of Leaders.
Note: This page applies only to Everything DiSC assessment results.
Why I chose this art piece for the C style
This painting takes a saying and makes it more literal, although no human is shown. It shows balance and stability. To me it says, “Let’s really take a good look at the hat as metaphor.”
All DiSC styles: DC, D, Di, iD, i, iS, Si, S, SC, CS, C, CD
By Kristeen Bullwinkle