Knowing how and where people work best can be a powerful and lucrative tool for business owners with a team of people. Personality profiling is not a new tool by any means, but still one of the best ways to ensure you are able to achieve a close-to-perfect match when selecting new employees and repositioning existing personnel.
At Action International, we use DiSC and VAK to help make decisions about team members and where best to place them. It also helps the team gain a better understanding on how to communicate with each other. Knowing someone’s personal profile allows for a much better understanding of how the person learns and operates.
DiSC DiSC uses the Style Analysis Instrument and was initially designed to assist people achieve a higher degree of success in life and work. Successful people know their strengths and limitations and by realizing their weaknesses, are able to overcome their shortcomings and take full advantage of their strengths. DiSC uncovers insights about four dimensions of normal behavior. A brief description of the four behaviors is listed below:
“D” Style “I” Style Adventuresome Charming Competitive Confident Daring Convincing Decisive Enthusiastic Direct Inspiring Innovative Optimistic Persistent Persuasive Problem Solver Popular Results-Orientated Sociable Team Player Precise Understanding “S” Style “C” Style Amiable Accurate Friendly Analytical Good Listener Conscientious Patient Diplomatic Self-starter Trusting Relaxed Fact-Finder Sincere High Standards Stable Mature Steady Patient
By recognizing your peers and behavioral styles and adapting to them, you’ll increase your understanding, appreciation, and communication with them leading to relationships that are more productive.
VAK At Action, we use the “Language System Diagnostic Instrument” (LSDI) to analyze a person’s communication and behavior patterns and for determining how to interact with that person in the process of change. The result of the questionnaire is a clear understanding of where you fit and how we make distinctions concerning our environment. Both internal and external are represented in terms of three sensory systems: visual, auditory, and kinesthetic. People who rely on their visual systems appear to run movies in their heads when remembering or storing information. If people are primarily auditory, i.e. taking information through sounds, remembering may be like replaying a tape recorder, with original tones and dialogue. People who are primarily kinesthetic respond to internal bodily feeling or tactile sense. They remember bodily sensations in recalling experiences.
This knowledge provides an amazing insight into the people we work with or for; however, we must be cautious not to “box” people or become complacent about ourselves because we are not naturally suited to a particular task.
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