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FEBRUARY
Talent Management Bulletin
DISC-IN-ACTION April 2019 Volume I
Welcome to Volume I of IMC’s Talent Management Bulletin. As you recall in 2018 IMC created
training courses around the broad category of Human Capital Development. Why were these
programs initiated? We felt that both project and office productivity would increase if all of us
better appreciated and gave thought to all of the various nuances of human behavior. The
In this issue courses included Behavioral Interviewing, Performance Evaluation Best Practices, Disc-In-
Action, and Leader as Coach. For purposes of keeping this training and some of its key
- Introduction components alive we have created the IMC Talent Management Bulletin. The Bulletin will revisit
each of our courses from 2018 and provide suggestions on how you might apply your learnings
to your current work environment.
- Overview
Volume 1’s Bulletin is all about people’s behavioral differences as revealed through the DISC
questionnaire. As you read this Bulletin we encourage you to think about how you can better
- Managing your improve your relations with your co-workers as well as improve team performance by
style and understanding their behaviors. And as a follow up to this Bulletin we will be getting out to each
avoiding Project Team a DISC TEAM Map which is further addressed in the article below. We will provide
overuses the same for working Departments inside of IMC such as Accounting and Administration.
GOOD READING!
- Adapting your
communication
style
OVERVIEW
Human behavior can be a mystery. At home or in the workplace, behavior and personality are
- Leveraging often misunderstood and become areas of stress affecting your work productivity and happiness.
DISC to
enhance your By understanding someone's DISC personality blend, we can take proactive steps to placing that
teams person in environments where they'll feel comfortable and empowered, approach them in a way
that they'll react positively, and better understand and predict their actions and reactions in
general. Human behavior is complex, yet predictable.
The tool classifies people's behavior into four types (Dominance, Influence, Steadiness, and
Conscientiousness) by looking at their preferences on two scales:
Task-Oriented versus People-Oriented
Fast-Paced versus Moderate-Paced
Everyone is a blend of all four DiSC styles—usually one, two, or even three styles stand out.
D-style (Eagle) is task-oriented and active.
I-style (Parrot) is people-oriented and active.
S-style (Dove) is people-oriented and reserved.
C-style (Owl) is task-oriented and reserved.
