Articles on how DiSC can be useful in all areas of your life. Use the knowledge gained from DiSC to better cope with stress, gain perspective, and understand yourself.
While mistakes can be frustrating and sometimes embarrassing, they also offer us valuable opportunities for growth and self-improvement. In this article, we’ll explore the benefits of making mistakes and why it’s important to learn from mistakes as an essential aspect of personal and professional development.
Each one of us brings a unique style to the way we listen, influenced by our individual personalities. The different DiSC styles have different listening strengths, as well as areas for improvement.
Being a good listener requires more than smiling and nodding. You can develop active listening skills by practicing attentiveness, adapting to the speaker’s style, and amplifying their ideas.
You might notice your D style colleague trying to work harder or put in more hours to try and prove themselves. Or they might be focusing on all those areas where they don’t have control and freaking out a bit. Their mental strain might be showing itself through impatience and insensitivity.
The C-style might react to stress by overusing restraint and by relying on data and analysis to an even greater degree.
The i-style might show their stress through sadness, anger, lack of follow-through, or more disorganization than normal.
Under stress, someone with a DiSC S type may appear withdrawn, passive, overwhelmed, inflexible, indecisive, or overly focused on details. We offer tips specifically for the S style on coping with stressful times.
What can we do to reduce stress for people at our organizations? We share a few style-specific tactics. DiSC can increase your understanding of what others might find stressful and how to give them a hand.
Examples of how Everything DiSC assessments have been used by staff in our own office for self-knowledge, relationship-building, team-building, and customer service.
The Everything DiSC® profiles contain a wealth of information about you and others. Here are some tips for how to get the most our of your profile.