The Dream Assessment [1] - Discover how your unique personality can help you along
the Journey to your Dream!: "Are you excited about
your Dream Journey, but aren’t sure where to start? DISC and the Dream
Assessment will give you the tools you need to pursue and achieve your Big
Dream. To identify your unique personality type, DISC is a simple,
effective tool that has been tested and used by millions of people worldwide.
The short, online assessment helps you
understand what motivates you, your personal strengths and weaknesses, and
how you relate to other people.
Once you’ve taken DISC, a Dream Assessment is instantly customized for you
based on your personality type. Everyone approaches the Dream Journey
differently, and
you have a unique way of pursuing your Dreams! Discover more about each
stage of your Dream and how you handle the challenges along the way. There is a
fee for the assessment and you will be asked to create a separate user id
and password for this service.
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The Strategic Assessment System: "The Strategic Assessment System (SAS)
employs one of the most widely used personality assessment tools, the D.I.S.C.
Assessment. The D.I.S.C. language comes from the
proven psychological principles found within the works of Carl Jung and William
Marston. ...
"Since Ancient times, there have been numerous attempts
to reduce the differences between individuals to definite categories and to
emphasize certain typical differences. Hippocrates, Aristotle, Carl Jung,
William Marston, Isabel Briggs Myers, and others were acutely aware of the
differences in the behavior styles of individuals. That is, all people do not
have the same basic orientation or ways of perceiving, interpreting, and
responding to the world. ...
"In 1921, Jung described four basic behavior styles:
intuitor, feeler, sensor, and thinker.... Later in the 1920s, Marston classified
human behavior into dominance, inducement, submission, and compliance (DISC).
Marston found that definite characteristics, or traits, can be ascribed to each
dimension of behavior. ...
"Until the 1950s, little was known outside the academic
community about the works of Jung and Marston. It was then that Isabel Myers
revived the idea of temperament when she dusted off Jung's book on psychological
types and, with her mother Katheryn Briggs, devised the Myers-Briggs Type
Indicator, a tool for identifying 16 patterns of action.... Subsequently, in the
1960s, a team of behavioral scientists at the University of Minnesota began to
apply Marston's theories to study groups. Their studies showed that
Marston's dimensions were useful not only in describing behavior, but also in
measuring and predicting it. ...
"Today's standardized DISC response form, or
instrument,
is primarily based on Marston's research but also uses the works of Jung.
In addition to determining the basic characteristics of an individual (as the
Myers-Briggs instrument does), DISC behavior analysis shows how individuals
"adapt" on the job....
[This
is why "continual assessments" is vital in organizational management]
"The DISC does not measure a person's intelligence,
values, skills, experience, education, or training. It merely measures a
person's 'manner of doing things.' ... To create an effective work team, you
must understand that the only capital that really counts is human capital."
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*Personal DISCernment Inventory:
The more we know about ourselves and others, the better we can work with and relate to other people. The Personal DISCernment Inventory® (PDI) helps us understand how and
why people are likely to behave in one way or another.
[Of course, God and His Spirit has no place in this system]
"This unique educational instrument is based on the time-tested
DISC theory that provides powerful insights into your work and social style. It will enable you to discover and define how you view yourself and
how you want others to see you. And through that process, you will learn more about the real you - a person who might be slightly different than you thought.
"The Personal DISCernment Inventory® isn't an exam; there are no right or wrong answers. It is a tool for helping you discover and analyze your own behavioral style so that you can better adapt your behavior to particular situations
and create more productive working and interpersonal relationships with others. tors so
appreciated the chance to gather together across
denominational lines, learn from each other and step outside their
comfort zones. What we did was create a structure to make that
possible.'...
"Through self-assessment tools, books, events and other resources,
Leadership Network’s Halftime initiative takes this a step
deeper by working directly with individuals who are looking to
repurpose their lives, as well as churches that want to encourage
such transformations in their congregations."
See
Social Change and
Communitarian Systems
*The Long Road to Understanding:
"Hippocrates' method was expanded upon in the early 1920s by Carl Gustav
Jung, a Swiss psychologist and one of the most influential modern behavioral
theorist. In 1921 Jung published "Psychological Types" which described four
psychological functions: thinking, feeling, sensation and intuition....
"The development of the DISC model is due to the work of the American
psychologist, Dr. William Marston, an expert in behavioral understanding. In
1926 Marston published "The Emotions of Normal People" in which he grouped
people along two axis: either active or passive tendencies relative to their
favorable or unfavorable view of the environment. An interesting side note is
that much later in his life Dr. Marston created "Wonder Woman" while serving as
an educational consultant for DC Comics. ... Understanding these four different
behavioral styles makes us better able to act with respect toward other persons,
even those who we see as 'different' or hard to understand. Today this language
is learned and applied in business interactions to improve effectiveness, build
productive teams and resolve conflict caused by diverse behavioral preferences."
**What is a Behavioural Profile?
" ... in 1921 Carl Jung developed the idea of distinct types further, which he
displayed as 4 quadrants of a circle replacing the earlier names with thinkers,
feelers, intuitives and sensors. Each quadrant was further divided into 2 giving
8 types of behaviour. Dr William Marston was also conducting research based on
his studies of ‘normal behaviour’ rather than the ‘abnormal’ psychology being
studied at the time. In 1921 he renamed the 4 quadrants, Dominance, Influence,
Steadiness and Compliance which has the acronym D.I.S.C. and is the system we
use."
***Behaviour and Initiative Based Training and Assessment: Using the NHI D.I.S.C.
Model : The NHI- D.I.S.C.
(DISC) model is base in the proven psychological principles found within the
works of Carl Jung and William Marston. ... Over the years, this four dimensional model has evolved into
one of the most popular and beneficial systems for assessing behaviour and
personality types, and training people about behaviour styles and the
interaction amongst them. It is estimated that the DISC assessment has now been
delivered to over 30 million people world wide."
The Strategic Assessment System: "The Strategic
Assessment System (SAS) employs one of the most widely used personality
assessment tools, the D.I.S.C. Assessment. The D.I.S.C. language comes from the
proven psychological principles found within the works of Carl Jung and William Marston. ... Exhaustive studies have been
conducted by a number of psychological societies. These studies have involved
hundreds of thousands of subjects, with the aim of validating, refining and
improving upon Marston's initial concepts. ....
"Since Ancient times, there have been
numerous attempts to reduce the differences between individuals to definite
categories and to emphasize certain typical differences. Hippocrates, Aristotle,
Carl Jung, William Marston, Isabel Briggs Myers, and others were acutely aware
of the differences in the behavior styles of individuals. That is, all people do
not have the same basic orientation or ways of perceiving, interpreting, and
responding to the world. ...
"In 1921, Jung
described four basic behavior styles: intuitor, feeler, sensor, and thinker.... Later in the 1920s, Marston classified human behavior into
dominance, inducement, submission, and compliance (DISC). Marston found that
definite characteristics, or traits, can be ascribed to each dimension of
behavior. ...
"Until the 1950s, little was known outside the
academic community about the works of Jung and Marston. It was then that Isabel
Myers revived the idea of temperament when she dusted off Jung's book on
psychological types and, with her mother Katheryn Briggs, devised the
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, a tool for identifying 16 patterns of action.... Subsequently, in the 1960s, a team of behavioral
scientists at the University of Minnesota began to apply Marston's theories to
study groups. Their studies showed that Marston's dimensions were useful not
only in describing behavior, but also in measuring and predicting it.
...
"Today's standardized DISC response form, or instrument,
is primarily based
on Marston's research but also uses the works of Jung. In addition to
determining the basic characteristics of an individual (as the Myers-Briggs
instrument does), DISC behavior analysis shows how individuals "adapt" on the
job. [This is why "continual
assessments" is vital in organizational management]
"The premise of the DISC measurement system is that all people demonstrate
some behavior in each of the four dimensions: drive-challenge (dominance)
influencing-contacts (inducement) steadiness-consistency (submission)
compliance-constraints (compliance). The DISC system analyzes each factor to
reveal a person's strengths and weaknesses, actual behavior, and tendencies
toward certain behavior. A person's behavior style is not what makes him or her
good or bad, right or wrong. The DISC does not measure a person's intelligence,
values, skills, experience, education, or training. It merely measures a
person's 'manner of doing things.' ... To create an
effective work team, you must understand that the only capital that really
counts is human capital."
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History of Temperament and Temperament Theory: "Carl Gustav
Jung
(1923), felt he possessed two separate personalities: an outer public self
involved with the world and his family and peers and a secret inner self that
felt a special closeness to God. [he was an occultist] The interplay between these selves formed a
central theme of Jung's personal life and contributed to his later emphasis on
the individual's striving for integration and wholeness.
"Jung proposed that
motivation be understood in terms of a general creative life energy-the
libido-capable of being invested in different directions and assuming a variety
of different forms. The two principal directions of the libido are extroversion
(outward into the world of other people and objects) and introversion (inward
into the realm of images, ideas, and the unconscious). ... Jung also proposed to group people according
to which of four psychological functions or types is most highly developed:
thinking, feeling, sensation, or intuition. ... A major breakthrough in typology
came in 1942 with the emergence of the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)....
Myers and Briggs identified "perceiving" as the process of becoming aware of
things, people, occurrences, and ideas. "Judging" includes the perceived process
of coming to conclusions. Together, perception and judgement govern much of
one's outer behavior. ...
"In 1928, William Marston in
Emotions of Normal People
investigated motor consciousness as the basis of feeling and emotion. Marston's
psychonic theory of consciousness traced the affective consciousness to
mechanistic-type causes; that is, to nerve impulses, thence to bodily changes
and, ultimately, to environmental stimuli. ... Marston proposed
that learning by inducement and submission is pleasant; learning by trial and
error (compliance and dominance) is painful.
" Walter Clark's Activity Vector
Analysis (AVA) was developed as a psychometric instrument around Marston's
theory. John Geier's (1972) Personal Profile: WORK Behavior Characteristic
Interpretation, describes behaviors in terms of how others see you, your
behavior under pressure, and how you see yourself. This theory of dimensional
behavior adheres to the precept that behavior changes can and does take
place...."
Hire for Higher Performance: "In the 1920's
psychoanalyst Carl Jung asserted that people tend to use a blend of behavioral
preferences, or styles, but over the course of time, one style dominates. One
very helpful model is based on the psychology of Carl Jung and William Marston.
Their work developed a working model, D-I-S-C, that measures four behavioral
factors. A person's behavior, or style, is the sum of the highs and lows of all
four factors. These styles affect the way we communicate and learn and make
decisions. Your behavioral design then is a "doorway" of communication. It
displays itself in every relationship and interaction. There is no right or
wrong style. There are just different styles."
DiSC® Training: "Originally created by
Dr. William Marston at Columbia University and researched and updated by Dr.
John Geier and Inscape Publishing at the University of Minnesota, the DiSC model
and its various assessment tools have helped over 35 million people in 20+
languages over the last 40 years. ... Organizations
use DiSC assessment tools in their training and coaching efforts as a performance improvement strategy. The most important benefit of the DiSC model
is helping individuals understand themselves and others better. Organizations
then utilize the DiSC model to achieve the following outcomes: - Improve
collaboration and reduce conflict -Build results-producing teams -Develop
effective coaches and managers...
Communication and Behavioral Styles: "The history of identifying four different types of behavior goes back
beyond the time of Christ at least to the time of Hippocrates, in 400 B.C. After
much observation of people, Hippocrates postulated that four main types of
people existed. He associated each of the four temperaments with a relationship
to one of four bodily fluids; blood, black bile, bile, and mucous, and hence
named the temperaments Sanguine, Melancholic, Choleric, and Phlegmatic. Six
hundred years later, Galen, a Roman philosopher, also spoke of how he thought
these same four bodily fluids effected behavior.
"In the 1920's,
Carl Jung outlined four types of personality in a psychological sense, but it was William Marston, a psychology professor at Columbia University, who, in 1928,
published
what we now refer to as the DISC Model of behavioral temperaments. In the
1950's, Walter Clark developed the Activity Vector Analysis, the first
assessment instrument based on Marston's theory."
What is DiSC? "DiSC is a model of
human behavior that helps to understand 'why people do what they do.' The
dimensions of Dominance, influencing, Steadiness, and Conscientiousness make up
the model and interact with other factors to describe human behavior. ... The
original DiSC model was originally based on the 1928 work of Dr. William Moulton
Marston at Columbia University. The four quadrant behavioral model was developed
to examine the behavior of individuals within their environmentally specific
situation.
"DiSC looks at behavioral styles and behavioral preferences. It was
Marston's 1928 book, "The Emotions of Normal People," which introduced the DiSC
model to the public. Marston, a contemporary of Carl Jung, defined four
categoreies of human behavior style, type, or temperament which are Dominance,
Influence (Inducement), Stability (Submission) and Compliant, Conscientious or
Caution. ... He was also the creator, writer and producer of 'Wonder Woman' which introduced
into comic strips, the role model of a strong female."
TPR Model of Behavior
: The more recent
research by behavioral scientists such as Dr. Karl Jung, Dr. William Marston,
and Dr. John Geier, who have looked at different dimensions of human behavior,
said there are basically two types of general orientations among people-Openness
and Directness-and four more specific tendencies-- Director, Thinker, Relater,
or Socializer tendencies."
Creating Team Synergy: "Creating Team Synergy
gives participants a well-rounded learning experience, balancing facilitator
instruction with private reflection and group interaction. Through the
combination of two HRDQ learning instruments, two hands-on games, an adventure
simulation, and small-group activities, participants learn more about themselves
as team members and how effectively their team functions."
History and Theory of DISC
:
http://www.pdiprofile.com/pdi/DISCBackground.asp?st=TDG
Psychometric Testing
:
We believe that psychometric testing can offer potentially helpful insights into behaviour and personality, but strongly recommend using them alongside other methods of assessment. We have a wide range of case study, simulation and in-tray material, providing an excellent complement to the psychometric approach.
Psychometric Tools
:
Self-awareness is the foundation of behavioural effectiveness. Without this, it is difficult to accept that something about us may need to change. Understanding what we do and why we do things is a key philosophy that underpins our approach to development programs and individual coaching.
...Could negative thought patterns be preventing employees from achieving their full potential?
....The DiSC Personal Profile System measures an individual’s behavioural response to their perception of their environment.
The DiSC behavioural model was developed by Dr. William Marston in the 1920s. Marston’s theory was that people behave the way they do because of their perception of the environment and then respond accordingly. His early work has been tested and developed over the past forty years.
...Life Styles Inventory 1 [LSI 1]
LSI 1 is the primary component in the Life Styles System developed by Human Synergistics, to maximise the effectiveness and potential for an organisation's most valuable asset - its people.
Based on a combination of respected psychological and measurement theories, the LSI 1 measures the thoughts and attitudes which motivate your behaviour, how you relate to others as well as how you solve problems and make decisions.
What are Personality Styles?
:
Personality styles are the language of observable behavior.
...It is terribly difficult to get along well and communicate well with people you don't understand. You will often misinterpret another person's actions or words. You will sometimes get frustrated with those whose personalities are opposite of yours.
...If you want to reduce conflicts with the person who is precise and analytical, be precise and analytical with him/her. Remember — you must allow your personality style to be flexible. Before you can modify your behavior to another person's personality style, you should spend time OBSERVING that person, looking for certain characteristics such as people interactions, verbal cues, body language, and living/work-space qualities.