Personality Profiling using DISC

A new client has asked me to deliver a series of workshops on DISC Personality Profiling. Having completed all the research and crafted all the material for it I thought that I would also blog about it as it is a seriously valuable tool for any organisation.

The acronym DISC stands for Dominance, Influence, Steadiness and Compliance. These four personality traits were defined by an American psychologist called William Moulton Marston in 1928. He wrote about them in his book "Emotions of normal people" in his attempt to formulate a way of describing the emotional states of ordinary americans. He did not actually develop the DISC methodology as we know it today, that came form a close friend of his. Marston was a larger than life character - he also designed the first lie detector and intriguingly also came up with the idea of Wonder Woman!

Here are a few benefits of the DISC profile methodology:

- Fast, accurate and cost effective
- Takes only 7-8 minutes
- Eliminates the need for guesswork
- Enables more effective people management
- Received a Certification of Registration from the British Psychological Society

I will write up more about DISC and what is stands for in a series of blogs over the next few days.

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