The Dream Giver Coach and DISC Assessments For background information, see Who is the Dream Giver? The Dream Giver Coach Network: "The mission of The Dream Giver Coach Network [headed by Bruce Wilkinson] is to provide professional Coaches whose purpose is to give you unconditional hope, inspiration, and support in discovering and living out your Dream."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. www.thedreamgiver.com/index.cfm?PAGE_ID=105 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." www.profilesglobal.com/pageloader.asp?pagename=sys_ben
*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 Dream Giver [None of the links to the www.TheDreamGiver.com were working on August 5, 2005]: "The Dream Giver, the powerful new book by the best selling author of The Prayer of Jabez, invites readers to follow their hearts and find their destiny in an inspired Life Dream that is uniquely theirs." Our Mission: "The mission of The DreamGiver Coach Network is to provide you with professional DreamGiver Coaches whose purpose is to give you hope, inspiration, and unconditional support in discovering and living out your DREAM." www.thedreamgivercoachnetwork.com/index.cfm?PAGE_ID=34 Laying hold of the Dream Giver’s destiny for you: "Each person has been created for a life of purpose and significance. In fact, from childhood we deeply and inherently desire to know and pursue a life’s dream. Our true dream is also the dream of The Dream Giver—the destiny uniquely fashioned for each of us....This book will show the reader how to identify and overcome the obstacles or “dream busters” that keep millions from living the life created for them. ... ....Taking up where The Prayer of Jabez left off, this book will show you how to “expand your borders” for your greatest fulfillment and for the great honor of the Dream Giver. Using a creative, modern-day parable along with real-life stories and expositional teaching, we’ll identify four key obstacles or “dream busters” that everyone in pursuit of their Big Dream will encounter: comfort zones, border bullies, tests in the wasteland, and giants in the land. ...The risk of not pursuing our destiny is disillusionment, fear, compromise and corruption. But the promise of pursuing our dream is that we’ll fulfill our created purpose and be part of what the Dream Giver deeply desires to bring about in our lives and in our world. www.thedreamgiver.com/index.cfm?PAGE_ID=85&EXPAND= Work with the Dream Giver" The Dream Assessment [2]: "DISC and the Dream Assessment will give you the tools you need to pursue and achieve your Dream.... There is a $35 fee for the Dream Assessment. You will be asked to create a separate user id and password for this service." [When you click on 'The History and Theory,' you come to the next page:
Personal DISCernment Inventory: "Dr. William M. Marston, a Columbia University psychologist in the early 20th century, developed the theory of human behavior on which the Personal DISCernment Inventory® is based. Through his extensive research, he identified four major behavioral patterns that are present in all people, but to varying degrees. ... "Using these four factors: task vs. people, assertive vs. responsive, we can place people into one of four quadrants. Over the years, many other researchers have built on this four-dimensional model of personality, making it one of the most popular systems for teaching people about behavioral styles. Our collection of reports is called the DISC Profile System®...." [You are now at the website explored in the next link:]www.pdiprofile.com/pdi/DISCBackground.asp?res=15
Christian Financial Prefessonal Network - Peronal DISCcernment inventory : The Personal DISCernment Inventory® (PDI) helps us understand how and why people are likely to behave in one way or another. 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. [Note: This manipulative process can tell you nothing about the new you in Christ. If you indeed are born again and filled with His life, you have a spiritual life that is far more significant to your walk with god than your former personality -- and it cannot be measured by psychometric testing.] "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. The DreamGiver Assessment connects the insights from your DISC profile to your personal Dream Journey. This customized report explores each stage of your Dream and describes the unique challenges you will encounter due to your style's particular strengths and weaknesses. Learn about the major issues in each stage and discover how to successfully navigate the path to fulfilling your Dream." www.pdiprofile.com/pdi/login.asp?res=15
Personal DISCernment: "Taking the Personal DISCernment Inventory® (PDI) online provides a quick, easy method of gaining powerful insight into your behavioral style in both work and social settings.... Three different graphs of your DISC Profile for a balanced explanation of your personality ... After taking the inventory, you may also receive additional customized reports that allow you to specifically apply these insights to the areas of leadership, communication, teamwork, sales, and time management. Volume discounts are available when you purchase multiple inventories or application reports.... The Personal DISCernment Inventory is Application Reports are $18. www.pdiprofile.com/pdi/OnlinePDIReport.asp?res=15 Hitory of DISC
This is not a Christian system or assessment process. Its the world's system and means of control! But when supposedly Christian ministires promote it, they tend to cloak in Christian terminology (such as love, service, God and hope) and new age terms such as dreams imagination, visualization, etc. This is big business. The overall goal of the disc assessments is to measure, monitor and mold human resources for the global workforce, welfare service, global solidarity and local community. New global management calls for systems and set standards and assess everyone to make sure people function in the ways and places and groups where they will best serve the greater whole. Churches and enthusiastic 'Christian' leaders are the primary catalysts in the social sector (in contrast to private business sector and public government sector) for bringing people around the world into the massive web of human resource management, assessment and remediation or relearning.Introduction - History/Validation: "The DISC profile system has its roots in time-tested and proven theories dating back to the Swiss Psychologist Dr. Carl Jung and William Marston Ph.D. from Harvard University. Both of these renowned scientists were creating their theories in the 1920's. Their work branched into different specialties (Jung studied dysfunctional personalities while Marston focused on the behavior of normal people). DISC has followed Marston's model supported by his famous book, 'The Emotions of Normal People', a best-selling classic for many years." https://www.coachingwell.com/coaching%20well/public/disc/default.asp?s=1*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." http://www.profilesglobal.com/pageloader.asp?pagename=sys_ben
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. |