Not All DISC is Created Equal

One of the biggest misconceptions we hear is that DISC is a "tool." Not so!  DISC is a neutral language for describing behavioral preferences, as well as a theory of understanding the self and others with behavioral style analysis.

There are over 300 DISC instruments on the market. Accuracy varies widely among these different instruments, with some being much more thorough in the narrative explanations than others.

People who think they know DISC often find that they are actually only skimming the surface with some of these instruments.

DISC, like any language, requires practice and application. To "peel the layers of the onion" on workplace strategies for communication and optimization, you need a combination of the most accurate DISC instrument and the targeted analysis and procedures to employ DISC insights for "everybody wins" applications.

That's why companies like Marriott International and Arby's Restaurant Group choose Data Dome's DISC assessments, strategies, training and certification programs.

TTI Success Insights™ DISC Behavioral Style Assessments

Of the hundreds of DISC-based tools available, we have chosen the TTI Success Insights™ (formerly Managing for Success®) for its precision, validity, and user-friendliness.

This family of profiles meets a variety of needs and special applications required for increased individual and organizational performance. Available by online account processing or as a software suite.

Covers four keys behavioral sectors with 384 possible combination (not just 4, 8 or 16). 

D - Dominance - Problems
How the person responds to problems and challenges.

I - Influence - Persuasion
How the person influences others to his or her point of view.

S - Steadiness - Pace
How the person responds to the pace of the environment.

C - Compliance - Procedures
How the person responds to rules and procedures set by others.

Advanced DISC Behavioral Style Analysis - TTI Success Insights

• Provides information about the individual's natural or basic behavioral style, as well as the adaptations they make to that style to thrive in the workplace.
• Presents specific information that can be immediately applied - keys to motivating, keys to managing, strengths, communication preferences, suggested strategies for improved communications with others, and potential areas for development.
• Versions are available to help you assess job fit, benchmark top performers, identify job requirements, select candidates with appropriate profile, plan for succession, identify potential managers, resolve conflicts and build teams, assign tasks according to strengths, identify suitability to sales, customer service, identify behavioral-based interviewing questions and provide performance feedback.
• Profiles can be taken, scored, and delivered in PDF format online.
• Well-researched and validated, EEOC/ADA compliant

 Profile reports include such areas as:

• Natural and Adapted Behavioral Characteristics
• Behavioral Communication Preferences
• Strengths and Value to the Organization
• Job-specific Behaviors
• Suggestions for Others to Effectively Communicate with You
• Ideal Working Environment
• How Others May Perceive You When Under Stress
• Personal Motivators
• Keys to Managing
• Comparative Analysis of Natural Behavioral Preferences and Adaptive Behaviors
• Performance Enhancement Action Plan
• Illustrative Linear and Wheel Graphs

Are you interested in a complimentary Management-Staff profile? Contact us via our online form to see if you qualify.

Report Versions - Targeted Narrative Profile Reports

Success Insights Management-Staff (new version of MFS Employee-Manager)
By far the most popular of our profile reports, it gives valuable information to the employee, the manager, and the work team. It clarifies individual work styles, how styles affect job performance and how the Management-Staff relationship affects productivity and goal achievement. It is used for a better understanding of the behavioral needs and characteristics of ones' self and others, and can be used to compare against behavioral models of the working environment itself. New behavioral hierarchy graphs rank your natural behavioral style in eight areas commonly encountered in the workplace.

 

Sample Management-Staff Report

 

 

Success Insights Executive Version
The Executive profile is designed for CEO's, upper management, and other decision makers. It provides valuable information for executives to understand their leadership style and helps them adapt their behaviors to optimize their strengths. The report produces accurate descriptions of their strengths and value to the organization.

 

Sample Executive Report

Success Insights Interviewing Insights - General
The Interviewing Insights General Version is an abbreviated form of the Management-Staff Profile, with suggested interview questions.

 

Sample Interviewing Insights General Report

 

Success Insights Sales
The Sales profile describes the sales person's natural (basic) sales style; that is, what their natural preferences are for product type, how to handle sales presentations, and how they prefer to close and service. It also describes their adapted (response) style; how they change their behaviors in response to perceptions of what it takes to succeed in their current environment. The Sales Profile compares these, and offers tips on how to better adapt to (or blend with) the customer. his knowledge will help the sales professional create a selling image that is positive for any behavioral style. Useful for sales selection, training, and coaching.  More

 

Sample Sales Report

 

Success Insights Interviewing Insights - Sales
The Interviewing Insights Sales Version is an abbreviated form of the Sales Profile, with suggested interview questions.

 

Sample Interviewing Insights Sales Report

 

Success Insights Customer Service
Focuses on people who deal with customers. This report shows the reach and range of your people who deal with customers; offers specific techniques for developing communication excellence with customers; and facilitates superior team interaction. Employees will be able to recognize different interactive styles and develop their approach accordingly.

 

Sample Customer Service Report

 

Success Insights Team Building
Narrative adapted for sharing with coworkers in a team-building scenario. An effective team is more than a group with a task. The Team Building report helps the manager identify and harness individual energies, and effectively channel them toward group goals. The information is presented in a non-threatening manner to encourage members to share reports, recognize team priorities, resolve disagreement, blend their styles and achieve team goals.

 

Sample Team Building Report

Success Insights Time P.L.U.S.
Identifies time wasters that impact individual productivity, and their possible behavioral causes. This profile report offers solutions for correcting, adapting, or eliminating specific time wasting behaviors typical to each style. It allows individuals the opportunity to develop a powerful new approach to organizing and managing their time.

 

Sample Time Plus Report

 

Success Insights Communicating with Style
An abbreviated version of the Management-Staff profile better suited for use with entry-level/temporary staffing. It features a Situational Strategies section on ways to react and advance a conversation when presented with conversational obstacles.

 

Sample Communicating with Style Report

 

 

Relationship Insights
Our ability to interact effectively with others often means the difference between the success or failure in relationships. However, before we can understand others we must first understand ourselves and what we bring to relationships in terms of behavioral preferences. This is a useful too for better understanding yourself as well as the people you interact with and value.

Sample Relationship Insights Report

Family Relationships
Developed specifically to assist families in improving the core factor of family relationships - communication. Family Relationships reports help families eliminate misunderstandings, conflict and stress by improving understanding and accepting the actions of those involved.

Sample Family Relationships Adult Report

Sample Family Relationships Young Adult Report

Golf Stroke Saver
Developed specifically to assist families in improving the core factor of family relationships - communication. Family Relationships reports help families eliminate misunderstandings, conflict and stress by improving understanding and accepting the actions of those involved.

Sample Golf Stroke Saver Report

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