...Running head: DISC Assessment Paper DISC Assessment Paper By: Gina and Brittany MGT 307 DISC Assessment Paper Organizational behavior studies have become more significant in today’s present years than hey were before in past years, this is due to companies realizing that in order to acclimatize to the constantly changing business cultures that have stemmed from a competitive and rapidly moving market, they must put more emphasis on the correlation between human behavior and the organization. Understanding this concept has led many several companies to put investment into behavior assessments and seminars and use them as a training tool to educate their employees and learn the reasons for each person’s behavior and attitudes and how to handle and approach these various types of behaviors and attitudes. In this paper we will be discussing the study of various behaviors via taking the DISC platinum Rule Behavioral Style Assessment to identify both me and my learning team member’s predominant behavior styles. We will then analyze our behavior styles, our strengths and weaknesses identified within our styles and whether or not we agree or disagree with the assessment. The DISC Assessment categorized both of our behavioral types as being the interactive style and our sub styles were lc. The Interactive Style also called I Style is friendly, enthusiastic, a “party animal” that love to be where all the action is. They thrive on the acknowledgment, admiration and...
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...following professional development plan, based on the team member’s DISC behavioral assessment, will provide a means to identify the individual’s strengths, weaknesses, and outline a means the team leader can use to communicate with each behavioral style. The plan will also explain how an understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of the styles provides direction for improvement to achieve personal career goals. The individual’s assessments place the members into three of the four styles; Cautious Style, Steadiness Style, and Dominance Style. Since additional members may be added to the team or included in future learning teams, the professional development plan will also include the Interactive Style. Understanding the differences between the behavioral styles is instrumental for a team leader to know “how to engage others whose own DiSC styles may be quite different” (Sugerman, 2009, para.9). Team DISC Overview A company named Kudu Industries and Murray Janewski developed the DISC assessment to determine an individual’s strengths, weaknesses, as a means to identify how to communicate more effectively (Sugerman, 2009). “DiSC research shows that every individual has a set of priorities that influence their behavior. By better understanding the priorities and motivations of their own colleagues, Kudu felt its employees would better communicate to one another.” (Sugerman, 2009, para.7). The DISC behavioral assessment was the first step the team took to identify his or her individual...
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...Professional Development Plan Kate Bethea LDR/531 June 22, 2015 Dr. Dave Aiken Professional Development Plan Management develops a plan that will address the characteristics of their team. With this plan, management can better lead their team by using each's personality characteristics. If such plans are used effectively, they can also determine a team's strengths, weaknesses, their skills, any improvement areas, and to help members of the team reach professional goals. Throughout this essay, such a plan will be developed to for "Learning Team D” and address the team member designated as manager. DISC Assessment In week, one of organizational leadership each member of “Learning Team D” completed the DISC Platinum rule. The DISC Platinum rule is a behavioral style assessment that breaks down an individual’s predominate behavior styles; dominate, interactive, steadiness, and cautious. There are sixteen sub-styles that further attempt to explain the results. "Learning Team D" is comprised of three members, and not one of them has the same style. One of the team members predominate style is dominated, one member style is cautious, and the third member is steadiness. Those who have the dominate style are driven self-starters who are fast-paced, goal oriented, decisive in their actions and decisions, and are more at ease when they have freedom to manage themselves and others. A cautious style is slower-paced and task-focused, they are cautious in their decisions and actions...
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...towards a common goal. An individual or a team uses a professional development plan so that they have set goals and strategies to achieve the same goal at the end of the period (Multiprofessional Faculty Development, 2012). To help me develop this plan each team member has been asked to take the DISC Assessment. DISC is a personal assessment used to determine behavior types, and how to interpret the behavior (DiSC Profile, n.d.). The DISC assessment has four styles it uses as a determination. They are Cautious (C Style), dominance (D Style), interactive (I Style) and steadiness (S Style). A cautious person is detail orientated, a slow worker and has very high expectations for themselves. A person who is dominance is very goal orientated, need control and must achieve their goals. A interactive person is very enthusiastic, must have acknowledgment and has great people skills. A person who is determined with steadiness is a devoted worker, great team player but slow in decision-making. Each one of these styles is vital to an organization and will be a valuable asset. References DiSC Profile. (n.d.). DiSC Overview. Retrieved from https://www.discprofile.com/what-is-disc/overview/ Multiprofessional Faculty Development. (2012). PERSONAL OR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLANS. Retrieved from...
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...succeed organizational development and growth. Managers create the development plan by working carefully with employees and identifying his or her skills associated with the goals and objectives established by the organization. In the work environment, the DiSC assessment is important in the process of developing an effective professional plan. In this assignment the DiSC, The Platinum Rule divides behavioral preferences into four basic styles known as DiSC in regard to, dominance, interactive, steadiness, and cautious style (Alessandra, N.D). Managers can use the assessments of each team member for mentoring, performance development plans and team building, as well as conflict resolution. This week's assignment consists of creating a Professional Development Plan to address the characteristics of individual Learning Team C members both individually and as a group and the ability to lead them. Team C members are Michael Fogoros, Dustin Jorah, Carlos Peralta and Eric Scott. Individual members DiSC assessment Learning Team C consists of four team members whose DiSC assessment results vary in two different models of behavior; Dominance and Interactive leadership styles. Eric, Carlos and Michael assessment results conform to the dominance style. Dominance style includes the need for control and achievement by those classified in this group. They accept challenges, take authority and are not afraid to take charge...
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...Professional Development Plan Organizational Leadership LDR / 531 University of Phoenix Professional Development plan I explain in this paper the different personalities of each employee. Which will abound what strengths and weaknesses of each. Strategies and recommendations will be created to turn weaknesses into strengths of each employee for the benefit of our company. To evaluate each use behavioral style Platinum Disc test. This test helps identify which behavioral style of each employee. Your assessment does not only help them be the best of each but also help them behave more mature and productive by learning how to focus on your goals instead of your fears. This tool will also help you develop and use more often their strengths, recognizing, enhancing and modifying all the limitations of each. This report will focus on trends, which influence their behavior. We have four styles of behavior according to Disc Platinum. The first is the Dominant Style. This style always has the need for control and the need to achieve it. Parent styles seek what most suits them and are not afraid to break the rules. This style definitely willing to challenge the thinking and outdated ideas. Strengths are people with lots of energy, are excellent leaders and management. I love challenges, be the authority and head when finding a solution to a problem. Weaknesses are people impatient, insensitive, take things too seriously and do not like to hear. ...
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...Professional Development Plan Ashley Mercado-Perez LDR/531 November 9, 2015 Michael Reynolds Professional Development Plan When working within a group it is very important to know the work styles of each individual. Knowing the strengths, weaknesses and needs of each individual with make for a more productive outcome of each task, and create synergy. In order to assess all of these factors, it is good to use a DISC Assessment. DISC stands for Dominant, Interactive, Steady, and Cautious. These are the four main styles of leaders. Team B is made up of three of the four DISC styles; Interactive, Dominant, and Cautious. According to the DISC Assessment, Interactive style people are friendly and thrive on admiration, acknowledgment and compliments. They are relationship oriented rather than task oriented and they are great influencers. They tend to use their people skills to build alliances to accomplish goals (Alessandra, P.7). Strengths of the Interactive person are seen in their communication, participation and finding the good in things. Their weaknesses are follow through and lack of objectivity. Interactive people need recognition, acceptance, and they need to talk (Outside the Box, 2014). Dominant Style people are driven by the need to control and the need to achieve. They like to take on challenges and are fast paced and goal oriented. A dominant Style person can work quickly and Impressively by themselves, and are annoyed with delay (Alessandra, P. 7)...
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...Professional Development Plan Daniel Page LAW/531 July 13, 2015 Dan Kessinger Professional Development Plan Professional development is a critical part of success in the workplace and group cohesion. Every individual has different personality traits and tendencies. Managers need to recognize these differences and develop a plan for cohesion and stability. In the University of Phoenix class Organizational Leadership, the members of Learning Team B have all taken DiSC Assessments to understand better these traits and tendencies. In the following paper I will outline a professional development plan for these members both individually and as a group with my ability to lead them. Ebony Ingram Ebony Ingram is an Assessor (Ci) with a predominately cautious style. The assessor is “less guarded and less indirect than most other cautious styles” (University of Phoenix, 2015). An assessor is a wonderful asset to have on a team because they can have great intuition with a head full of knowledge through detailed evaluation. The negative of this style is that even though Assessors are quick thinkers, they may be slow to take action (University of Phoenix, 2015). This is something to keep in mind when putting together a professional development plan with contrasting personnel working together. Rasha Long Rasha Long is a Go-Getter (Sd) with a predominately steadiness style. The go-getter is “less open and less indirect than most other steadiness styles” (University of Phoenix, 2015). This...
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...Career Portfolio Career Success Strategies (GM548) Professor: Geoffrey Hacker March 3, 2013 By Christopher C. Young Table of Content Current Goals………………………………………………………………………………3 Work Philosophy……………………………………………………………...……………4 DISC Survey and Written Report…………………………………………………………5-11 Stress Processing Report and Written Report……………………………………....……12-17 Samples of Key Course Outcomes and Assignments………………………………….....18-19 List of technical and Like Skills Gained from each………………………………………20 Keller Course Personal Resume…………………………………………………………………………....21 Volunteer and Community Service Experience…………………………………………..22 Favorite Web Sites………………………………………………………………………….23 Current Goals Personal - Complete my Masters of Business Administration with concentration in General Management by June 2014 - Get in shape by Summer of 2013 - Take more time to study for school Financial - Keep my credit score high - Continue to make payments on time - Get a raise/promotion - Continue to save money Professional (My Current Options/Goals) - Store Manager/Management - Retire Work Philosophy Leadership - Taking responsibilities. Leading by example. Learn from mistakes - Learn from mistake and accepting them to improve next time. Focused - Focus of Being Focused to find success...
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...Professional Development Plan Edwin Julio LDR/531 April 11, 2016 Professor Scott Bruner Professional Development Plan This paper will be evaluating the results from the DISC assessment that each team member in Learning Team A completed. This learning team has five members including myself as the manager. The goal will be to view the results and figure out how each team member will work separately as well as within a group setting. The benefit of the assessment is to have each team member assess their skills, strengths, areas needing improvement, and the resources needed to help them reach their goals. As stated, Learning Team A took the DISC assessment, and the findings are as follows: Brian was considered Dominate, KinyaMantesha was assessed to be cautious, and Sarah, Shadonta and Evita was evaluated to be interactive. Evita will be taking the lead as manager of the group and will try to best describe how the learning team can collaborate as a team to complete the learning team projects moving forward. Each individual can thrive separately and get things done, but the DISC assessment was completed to see how each person could thrive within a team setting. Brian was the only one in the learning team that was considered dominant. Brian can best be described as a delegator, he would be best suited as the teacher, and he would rather lead than follow. He is direct, and very decisive. This individual will be great in a team setting since he is also someone that is a...
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...Ministry of Electricity of Iraq for twenty five years and his experience helped Shamara group in the completion of mega projects in very difficult circumstances at that time, most of the international companies had failed to implement on time and left Iraq because of the bad conditions and the continuing terrorist attacks on the infrastructure projects. Motivation plan I will make a motivation plan to increase my Learning Team members' motivation, satisfaction, and performance based on their personal profiles, as if they were employees of the projects managing department of my Mentor. I explained below the team member’s and mine DISC assessment results completed in Week One. Darlene’s DISC assessment: Dominance (D) and Influence (I) Swhail’s DISC assessment: ( I ) Influence , (D) Dominance Michele’s DISC...
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...inspiring and encouraging subordinates within the organization (Schira, 2007). In this paper and as the manager of Team B, a development plan will be assessed to help the group reach future career goals. The plan will consist of a DISC chart assessment of each team member’s characteristics by letter and professional development plan that will help to address strengths and areas of improvement for reaching career goals. The platinum rule DISC is a tool used to help in understanding a person’s unique personality, being able to identify with patterns of behaviors, and adapting to different behavior actions in order for promoting increase relationships and cooperation, and eliminating tension (Disc Platinum Rule, 2014). As a leader, it is important to watch and listen to how a person enter acts, what they say, and willingly accommodate between the different styles of behavior as well as your own. The Platinum Rule DISC will help a leader to develop chemistry, build a healthy relationship, and to promote influence with individuals. The Platinum Rule DISC is a tool that identifies four behavior styles: D stands for Dominant, I stand for Influencing, S stand for Steady and C stand for Conscientious. Each of the names reflects a specified personality type (Disc Platinum Rule,...
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...leader. If the plan is effective, it can be used to determine the needs of the learning team. It can also be used as a tool for the members to assess their skills, strengths, areas needing improvement, and the resources needed to help them reach their career goals. Recommendations for all team members are based on the results from the "The DISC Platinum Rule Behavioral Style Assessment" that each team member completed. Developing includes several managerial practices that are used to increase a subordinate’s skills and facilitate job adjustment and career advancement. Key component behaviors include mentoring, coaching, and providing developmental opportunities. (Yukl, G. 2013). Learning Team Disc Chart From Disc Assessment DIRECT | GUARDED | Dd | | Di | | Id | | Ii | OPEN | | | | | | | | | | | Dc | | Ds | | Ic / Jeff | | Is | | | | | | | | | | | | Cd | | Ci / Renee & | | Sd / Ty | | Si | | | | | John | | | | | | | Cc | | Cs | | Sc | | Ss | | INDIRECT | Evaluation of the Individual Team Members Renata Roman and John Coakley's self-assessment characterized them in "The Cautious Style" group. More specifically, Roman and Coakley fell into class "Ci" described as "The Assessor" known for accomplishing goals with excellence. (Alessandra, 1996-2014). The style has a tendency to have strong opinions about groups and people that do not agree with them. The strengths of this class are...
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...such factors will determine what one expects from someone else and how those needs are communicated. Each team member within Team B completed The DISC Platinum Rule Behavioral Style Assessment. The results of the assessment and the interactions in relation to this assignment provide the team with a means to develop an efficient professional development plan. The plan addresses the characteristics of each member as an individual and within the group as well as the most effective leadership approach for each team member. Team Assessments and Behavioral Characteristics After an assessment of each of the team member’s personality types with the use of their DISC assessments I was able to develop a professional development plan that promotes an open and communicative environment conducive to forming a productive group. This approach identifies each team member’s characteristics and work styles as experienced through cooperation and participation in the completion of this plan. Through these characteristics and interactions I was able to identify each member’s strengths, weaknesses, preferences and personality type. Such information allows the group to cultivate an environment of inclusion and understanding. The DISC assessment assigns each team member a DISC behavioral style that represents a general character type. The four DISC styles consist of dominance, interactive, steadiness, and cautious. Christina’s behavioral style is steadiness. People with steadiness styles are...
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...Manners in which people conduct themselves are most readily attributed as behaviors; therefore clichés such as all people are different are truly an understatement. This concept is most amplified in the platinum DISC assessment. When confronted with a situation that involves multiples personality such as vocation, each person brings and adds their perspectives and values to the overall resolution. Genuinely I am intrigue with individual’s assessments because of the variety of traits that lead to each person’s character. People could have a similar style and yet still be exceedingly different. We can attribute that to basic commonalities that humans share such as goals, dreams and admirations. There are four DISC platinum primary behavioral styles such as dominance (D style), interactive (I style), steadiness (S style) and cautious (C style). People who fall under the dominance category are people who are willing and able to take the lead. They are go-getters who want to accomplish many things. Interactive people are people who are friendly and more concerned with building relationships rather than being task oriented. Often times they are considered to be party animals because of their carefree attitude. The steadiness style has a warm personality and they are often considered nurturers. They are excellent listeners as well as planners however; they are slow when it comes to making decisions. People who fall under the cautious style are people who are concerned with perfecting...
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