What Do You Do? podcast
Dawn Hardman | HR Business Partner | Herefordshire + Worcestershire Chamber of Commerce
When we think of personaility tests, it’s easy to think of online quizzes with ridiculous results, but a DISC assessment is anything but that. A DISC assessment undertaken with a licensed DISC Practitioner can be transformative for both individuals and teams. It enhances self-awareness, improves communication, and can lead to better team dynamics. If you’re looking to get a better understanding of how you or your team can work more effectively, undertaking a DISC assessment could be a worthwhile investment.
“Ultimately, everyone wants the same result. They just get it
in a different way, and it’s just having that understanding.”
Key Takeaways
- DISC is a great tool for self-awareness, and helps people to understand the difference between how they perceive themselves to be and how they’re perceived by others.
- It can help to understand the reasons behind team conflict, by identifying points of friction between personality types.
- There are no bad profiles – understanding your DISC profile just helps you to understand which skills might require more energy.
The Role of a DISC Practitioner
What is DISC?
DISC stands for:
- Dominance
- Influence
- Steadiness, and
- Conscientiousness
Everyone has different degrees of each attribute. Even if you a weak in certain attributes, it doesn’t mean that you can’t do something – it just means that you will need to be more conscientious about doing it, and it might take more of your energy than something that comes naturally to you.
To get your results, each person undertakes an online questionnaire. Participants are encouraged to answer questions instinctively, as this will give a more natural and accurate response. Answering the questions in this way means the test will take around 10-15 minutes.
The tests asks similar questions around topics such as how you behave in certain situations, and how you respond to challenges. The results is a 20 page document – a DISC profile – that is very in-depth, and as Dawn explains in the podcast, can be quite overwhelming.
Enter the DISC Practitioner.
What Does a DISC Practitioner Do?
The role of the DISC Practitioner is to help participants interpret their results. As Dawn explains, receiving a profile cold can be quite daunting. There’s a lot of information contained in a DISC profile, and a DISC practitioner is there to help participants understand both the language and the rationale of the profile.
Having a DISC practitioner on hand makes the process more meaningful, and it also gives the opportunity for participants to ask questions about things that have been highlighted in the profile.
The outcome of a DISC workshop is better self-awareness, and actionable and relatable insights to help your professional development moving forward.
What Do We Do?
We founded the What Do You Do? podcast to hear from people like Dawn, whose job many people may not appreciate. Personality tests like DISC are a great way to understand yourself, your team, and develop your communication skills.
Videos, like the one above, are a great way to communicate to people exactly what it is that you do – find out how we can do it here.
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