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The DISC Assessment and Team 8 DISC 360 Behavioural Profiles

DISC is the most globally recognised profiling tool in use today. It is used in both the business world and sport to help individuals, leaders, athletes and coaches better understand their behaviours which create their results. In short, DISC is a wonderful tool to develop self-awareness which is the corner stone to success in any endeavour.

Below we share with you a brief introduction to DISC and the Team 8 DISC 360 Behavioural Profiles.  If you’d like to jump ahead, click on the below topics for more information:

Why use DISC and the Team 8 DISC 360 assessments?

Fundamentally, DISC is all about improving your current results and performance, both on a personal level and for your organisation.  Use DISC to develop a deeper understanding of yourself and those you interact with, to ensure the most productive, effective and enjoyable relationships are built and maintained.  Most importantly, DISC is very effective in eliminating much of the needless pain, miscommunication, misunderstanding and conflict that gets in the way of people working effectively together.

If you want you and your team to work at your best and want a tangible tool to support you to achieve this, then DISC is the most useful available today.  It provides you with the awareness and information about your behaviour and the impact you have on others. The Team 8 DISC assessments give you clarity and practical strategies to put in place.

Many business owners, managers, leaders and sports coaches use DISC to assist them to better understand their “people”.  Understanding your people means you are better able to meet their needs, communicate with them, build stronger relationships and provide an environment that they will excel in. This always translates into being able to help your people to be their best and deliver top performance for your organisation.

The Team 8 DISC 360 Assessments help you:

Team 8 DISC 360 Assessments
  • Take the guesswork out of your performance and the behaviours that get your best results.
  • Show you how to build on your strengths.
  • Identify and address your limiting behaviours.
  • Improve your communication with your clients, staff, peers, management and others.
  • Provide you the opportunity to get honest feedback from those who know you well.
  • Help you reach your full potential!

DISC is not hoping to measure personality.  A Myers Briggs Profile is used for that. However, DISC is arguably even more powerful a tool than Myers Briggs as DISC is measuring behaviour within the environment the individual took the assessment.  DISC assumes people can be flexible or adaptable with their behaviour and that behaviour is changeable. In simple terms, DISC describes what and how someone creates their results rather than describing who they are. Therefore DISC is concerned with being able to adjust your behaviour to create better outcomes. The prerequisite for being able to adjust your behaviour, is knowing how you currently behave.  This is a significant part of what developing self-awareness is.

Each Team 8 DISC 360 Profile Report comes in a 33 page document containing a detailed description of an individual’s preferred behaviours, preferences and style.  It details their limiting and strengthening behaviours, the type of environment they find most motivating and perform best in and vital strategies to maximize their personal performance.   Using this information you can be more effective with your communication, build stronger relationships, have a deeper understanding of their motivation, strengths and areas for development.  It is all written in simple to understand terms and language. As the name implies, this version of DISC is the most advanced with automated 360 capability to help you to better understand yourself through the feedback of others. This function is all controlled by the user and therefore is at their discretion (there is no additional cost for this capability – it is all included).  Read more about what is included in the Team 8 DISC assessment.

What is DISC and what does DISC stand for?

Historical as well as contemporary research reveals more than a dozen various models of our behavioural differences, but many share one common thread: the grouping of behaviour into four basic categories. DISC is a four-quadrant model and an acronym for Dominant, Interactive, Steady and Compliant behaviour. It is a model based on research conducted by William Moulton Marston Ph.D. and is a measurement of behaviour within a given context, focused on patterns of external and observable behaviours. Marston examined the behaviour of "normal" people in their environment or within a specific situation and documented his findings in the book "Emotions of Normal People". It is Marston's model, along with the internationally recognized and respected work of Dr Tony Alessandra, that serves as the foundation for the Team 8 DISC 360 profiling system. 

There are significant benefits of focusing on patterns of external, observable behaviour. Because we can see and hear these external behaviours, it becomes much easier to "read" and understand people. The DISC model is relatively simple, practical, easy to remember and use. Please note that there is no "best" style. Each style has its unique strengths and opportunities for continuing improvement and growth.

Here is a brief description of the four behavioural styles in DISC.

  • Dominant (D) – Direct, results focused, fast paced, seeks control and authority
  • Interactive (I) – Direct, people focused, fast paced, seeks recognition and change
  • Steady (S) – Indirect, relationship focused, slower paced, seeks harmony and stable environments
  • Compliant (C) – Indirect, task focused, slower paced, seeks accuracy and rational processes and systems

Click here for a basic overview of the four DISC behavioural styles.

Or if you’d like a deeper understanding, click here for how to understand and adapt to the different DISC behavioural styles.

Please note, DISC does not measure:

  • Personality type
  • Surface behaviour
  • Values and beliefs
  • Thinking and feeling

Importance of Behavioural Adaptability?

In addition to understanding your own behavioural style, the Team 8 DISC 360 profile report will identify ways that you can apply your style strengths or modify your style weaknesses in order to meet the needs of a particular situation or relationship. This is called adaptability. Through your successful and less successful interactions with others, and your values, you may have already learned to modify and adapt some of your behavioural styles preferences. Social scientists call it “social intelligence.”

There has been a lot written lately on how your social intelligence is just as important as your Intelligence Quotient (IQ) in being successful in today’s world. In some cases, social intelligence is even more important than IQ.

It makes sense when you think about it. Often, when we do what comes naturally to us, we alienate others without realizing it because that same behaviour may not be natural for them. It is essential that we become aware of our natural tendencies - and their natural preferences! Then we can defuse extreme behaviours before we sabotage ourselves. We do this by quickly identifying the individual needs of others based on the behavioural signals they will send to us, and then adapting our own behaviour to make them feel comfortable. Your ideas do not change, but you can change the way you present those ideas. Moreover, the best part of it is - people will teach you how to treat them if you know how to read the signals their behavioural styles will send you!

Adaptability is the key to building all successful relationships. Adaptable people realize there is a difference between their self (who they are) and their behaviour (how they choose to act). They consciously decide whether and how to respond to a person, a situation, or an event.

You can commit to learn to be more adaptable. When you understand each of the four styles, how to recognize them in others, and how to adapt to them in key ways, you can have command of almost any interpersonal situation.

Click here to read more about What is Behavioural Adaptability and using DISC.

Understanding your own behavioural style is just the first step to enhancing relationships.  All the knowledge in the world doesn’t mean much if you don’t know how to apply it in real life situations. That’s what the Team 8 DISC behavioural profiles are all about.


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Or, you might be interested to read more about How to Understand and Adapt to the Different DISC Behavioural Styles.

At Team 8, we’re here to provide you with excellence in service.  If you’d like to discuss DISC or the Team 8 DISC behavioural profiles or if you have any questions, please Contact Us – we are here to help you!

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