What is DISC?
DISC is a self-assessment that measures how an individual prefers to interact with others. DISC creates a common language and a self-awareness to better understand ourselves and others. The online DISC questionnaire takes only 10 minutes to complete. The assessment reports can be customized for all levels of the organization.
Organizations and facilitators choose the DISC assessment because it is easy to administer, user-friendly and a powerful tool in a wide range of applications.
The DISC model divides people into four main behavioral styles. Individuals are identified as either People-oriented or Task-oriented. They are further distinguished as Reserved or Active. The resulting behavioral styles are called:
How can DISC be used in my organization?
Our clients use Extended DISC® with their employees to equip them with skills to modify their behavior to become more successful by:
- Understanding how people are different
- Developing confident self-awareness
- Learning to identify the styles of others
- Modifying behavior based on the other person’s style
The participants become more aware that their success is determined in a very large part by how well we interact with other people. They learn how to effectively relate, communicate, influence and motivate others to create successful relationships with subordinates, customers, prospects, colleagues, managers, friends and family members.
EXTENDED DISC® Assessments
Based on the well known psychometric assessment tool DISC, Extended DISC® is used by businesses worldwide to enhance team performance and allow managers and staff to improve their decision making.
Knowing that increased understanding of ourselves and each other leads to better workplace harmony, we use Extended DISC® to help clients:
- Improve management and hiring decisions
- Increase staff retention
- Increase productivity
- Understand and utilise personal strengths
- Enhance communication
- Increase sales
- Collaborate more efficiently
- Plan and strategize more effectively
- Minimize conflict caused by reactions to stress
- Build teams with specific capabilities
PRE-EMPLOYMENT SCREENING
When you’re looking for your next hire, this assessment will provide you with the necessary requirements to look for in your candidates. The evaluation best matches the candidate to the job and helps set them up for success. Learn how to help coach and inspire your employees while diving deep into developing them for their role.
What sets Extended DISC® apart from other profiling tools is that it provides an assessment of both conscious and unconscious behaviors giving new levels of insight into the responses or learned behaviors we try to use to be successful in the work environment (including meeting implicit cultural expectations). It also shows us how our inherent styles either match or mismatch situations and expectations in the workplace (revealing indicators of tension/stress and task, role and workplace fit).
Being able to separate these two profiles leads to a deeper understanding of what shapes our decisions and provides a powerful opportunity to interrupt habitual patterns with more considered responses allowing for greater success in a number of workplace arenas.
Pre-employment screening and hiring assessments have become an indispensable tool for assessing “Right Fit” and successful employee development in the workplace. The right employee screening process is key to finding and retaining your most talented personnel. Research reveals the effectiveness of data-driven recruitment and people analytics. Extended DiSC® provides a user-friendly, validated suite of hiring tests and tools to maximize your ROI per employee.
TEAM ASSESSMENTS
Extended DiSC® has a model and development program that guides intact teams through a course to improve in five different areas that are key to productive team dynamics. The essence of the five behaviors is trust, conflict, commitment, accountability, and results. This assessment will evaluate the team’s dynamic across the behaviors in order to help members decide what improvements are necessary.
Extended DISC® is validated – and periodically re-validated – around the world to insure reliability and accuracy.