What Are Your Strongest Teamwork Muscles? Part 2 of 2

Today's style focus: the strengths and muscle S and C bring to a team or a group.

These are the DiSC® styles in the Thoughtful, Moderate-Paced, Calm, Careful quadrants of the DiSC® model.

If you’re a strong S your value to the team or a group may be:

Great listener

Dependable team member                                              

Provide solid implementation plan and see it through                  

Will help others first                                   

Good at reconciling factions, calming and stabilizing them

Hard worker for team and cause

Will finish tasks assigned

These are the types of questions you’re likely to ask:

Is this fair for everyone affected?  

Will it benefit all?  

How can I help – I want to be of service

Is there more to do?

If you’re a strong C your value to the team or a group may be:

Organized, disciplined                      

Set the standards for the team          

Keep the team honest with their objective thinking process

Perceptive, can see things other don’t

Ask the tough questions

These are the types of questions you’re likely to ask:

 How does it work? 

 Who does what?

 How will it impact us?

 When….?

 What…? 

 Where…?

 Alternatives? 

 Process?

Question for you – the same as yesterday: Have you consciously appreciated what other styles bring to the success of a team?

Tomorrow: I mentioned that were some negative or "less-than-attractive” features to our behavioral tendencies. Sometimes a strength is so strong that it becomes excess and works against us. We’ll next look at those “excesses” and behaviors driven by our greatest fears.

My-Not-To-Be-Forgotten-Very-Important-Note: Discovering your behavioral style is intended to help you understand more about your impact on and relationships with others and how you can use that information to improve or create strong and effective relationships – in your personal or professional world.

Understanding the styles of DiSC® is NOT an opportunity to stereotype and refer to someone as a “D” (or i, S or C). We all have some of each style within our range of behaviors so it’s unfair and possibility offensive to call someone by their primary style indicator. And remember that DiSC® is focusing on a particular role in your life – circumstances and situations may cause a change in that role and a change in behaviors. So can styles change? YES! No stereotyping or labeling allowed.

Resources:
The Universal Language Ô DISC, A Reference Manual, 1993, Target Training International, Ltd.

DiSC® Classic 2.0 Online Profile, Inscape Publishing, Minneapolis, MN
ProStar Coach, Performance Support Systems, Inc. Newport News, VA
My Real-World Experience – all over the place!
DiSC Research Reports

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