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How using a DISC Profiling System Can Benefit Your Organisation

Guest post by: Ann-Marie Gil

Article Overview: A DISC Profiling System identifies the characteristics of individuals as being dominance, influence, steadiness or compliance. Dominance is the person's ability to get their point across in a challenging environment, which ranges from Passive to Aggressive. Influence is a their ability to persuade others, people rating high are friendly and suited to customer service or sales. With Steadiness, they like to remain in one job and don't like a lot of change or variety, this is a good trait for data entry jobs. Compliance is a person's ability to follow rules, they are a stickler for regulations and guidelines and have little flexibility. The benefits of DISC Profiling Systems follow.

How using a DISC Profiling System Can Benefit Your Organisation

A DISC Profilling System could benefit your business in the following ways:

1. Clear identification of learning and working styles.
2. To avoid the placement of 2 dominant people working together all the time as they would both want to be leaders.
3. You can place people in roles which are more suitable to their behaviours.
4. To get the right mixture of different people in a team when their roles and behaviours are varied and suitable for them.
5. To know where your team members fit into the above categories and ensure their roles reflect their natural abilities.
6. Most people are a blend of several different behaviour types, they will generally have a dominant behaviour type and may be leading towards trying to be another behaviour type.
7. Have the whole team assessed for their behaviour types and when recruiting, find someone that "blends" into the mix as well as having the relevant skills and experience.
8. Behaviour identification is not something that can not be found out from just a job interview, but usually takes time in getting to know the person. In a job interview, it is common for a person to sell themselves into a role without addressing their behaviour, as you are addressing other characteristics such as relevant experience and presentation.
9. Some candidates may not present very well in a job interview but may have more of the behaviour characterstics to fit into your team and could possibly have the relevant skills and experience.

Business Success uses and recommends Extended DISC which provides a very comprehensive report about individuals, working pairs and teams, which is available as a service through the internet. You can purchase these reports through Business Success whom can also assist you in interpreting those reports.

If you would like further information about DISC Profiling Systems, please visit my websites.

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