DISC Test

[dbtng_thomas]

The DISC test is largely about how you interact with others. The test is very widely used in corporate environments. The dimensions are:

Directing (Dominance*)
Interactive (Influence*)
Supportive (Steadiness*)
Conscientious (Caution, Compliance*)

Unsurprisingly, I'm a high D, which could easily translate to "big dick". (Yes, it's 'big' dick, not 'little' dick. It's the difference between just compensating for insecurity versus the expression of honest, sincere, and heartfelt aggression.)
"You communicate directly and forcefully, getting to the bottom line quickly. As a result, friends and family may see you as demanding, impersonal, and dominating."
http://www.crown.org/Tools/personality_instructions.asp

DISC results are frequently interpreted via a 4 quadrant circle. The idea is that a balanced person is in the center of the circle. The percentages in your score can be converted to specific points within the circle.

http://www.discprofiles.com/images/EDSalesMap_small.jpg

The point of the DISC assessment is to identify what types of personality you will have problems communicating with and recommend some tactics to communicate more effectively with those types. Those tactics largely consist of shifting your communication style to be more like the person you are speaking to.

As a Driver, I see little point in social niceties, and I'd much rather get down to facts and figures. That style works very poorly with folks who place more value in social interaction. If I want them to feel comfortable with me, I have to wait several minutes while I chatter, demonstrate that I remember their wife's name, ask about their vacation, etc. Conversely, if they want to achieve my respect and trust, they must drop some of the social chitchat and prove their competence by getting down to business.

*Original usage. The DISC typing system is based on work first published in 1928 and exists in several thousand versions, some of them more PC than others.

[warryer]

Driver

General Description
As a Driver, you create activity and set the pace within your family and among your friends. Due to your desire to produce results, you quickly take charge by defining goals and delegating tasks. You are not afraid to take risks or impose your will through strong action in order to move ahead.

Typical Areas of Strength
Drivers, like you, are bold, direct, confident, competitive, often pioneering, assertive, frank, independent, and responsive to new challenges. You excel by having the freedom to define a direction focused on results.

Typical Areas of Struggle
You may be impatient, insensitive to the feelings of others, frustrated with details and routines, a poor listener, impulsive, too blunt, or overbearing.

Your Preferred Activities
To maximize your talents, you look for situations in which you can have a high level of independence, with obstacles to overcome, challenges to meet and solve, without many details to handle.

Your Communication Style
You communicate directly and forcefully, getting to the bottom line quickly. As a result, friends and family may see you as demanding, impersonal, and dominating.

I can see that. In groups at school I tend to take charge. I need to have an overall goal or I may as well be doing nothing.

[Sparrow]

General Description
As a Strategic Thinker, you excel by blending your strong drive to reach goals with a desire for precision, accuracy, and quality. As a result, you are well equipped to be in charge, especially in situations or projects where producing quality output is a priority.

Typical Areas of Strength
Strategic Thinkers, like you, are goal-oriented, precise, analytical, assertive, confident, prepared; you tend to insist on high standards. You have a good eye for detail and usually push to get things done right.

Typical Areas of Struggle
You may sometimes come across as rigid, cold, picky, pushy, dogmatic, or stubborn. In your desire to achieve results, you may become overly critical, judgmental, or insistent on doing things your way.

Your Preferred Activities
Because you are highly task-oriented, you usually desire to control two key elements of any project: goals and quality.

Your Communication Style
Strategic Thinkers, like you, are usually gifted communicators who strongly believe that what they are saying is absolutely correct and represents the right direction to take.

[Anthile]

Driver as well.

[Shatokan]

I got driver, but since it's been forever since i really had a big group of friends, I don't know.

[NothingTodo]

Networker
Maybe im an entp
A new world is opening if im an entp!:elephant:

[Sparrow]

Strategic Thinker = INTJ? *facepalm

[Madoness]

Driver as well

[Sparrow]

http://www.discinsights.com/blog/2008/11/mbti-myers-briggs-and-disc-profile.html

[Sparrow]

Bleh, did it again and I got analyzer

General Description
As an Analyzer, you tend to seek perfect outcomes in all of your plans and projects. In many situations, you “take things apart” in your mind and think about ways to do them better. You excel at this kind of mental examination, but you may tend to see family and friends as “projects,” rather than as people.

Typical Areas of Strength
Analyzers, like you, tend to be analytical, logical, direct, confident, and they like new challenges. They excel at seeing the larger vision, creating efficient methods and procedures, and listening carefully for the facts.

Typical Areas of Struggle
Due to your tendency to focus on tasks, you sometimes show a lack of sensitivity to the feelings of family members and friends. When you are sharply focused on a task, you may come across as being overly critical, judgmental, blunt, or impatient with others.

Your Preferred Activities
To maximize your talents, you look for situations in which you can offer logical solutions to complex challenges, and you evaluate and make the necessary changes to assure the desired outcome.

Your Communication Style
You tend to provide insights and direction by teaching, managing, clarifying, and advising.


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[ashitaria]

Networker.

[RubberDucky451]

Networker

You are outgoing, engaging, lively, optimistic, gregarious, persuasive, fun-loving, enthusiastic, and inspiring.


WTF? :confused:

How dare you call me optimistic!

[Dormouse]

Dor - your profile type is Transition

It is certainly possible for someone to be as flexible as this profile would indicate. However, for most people, this set of scores reflects a temporary condition or situation, rather than the individual's natural personality. Significant events, life changes, and periods of transition can temporarily mask the individual's ability to render a valid self-appraisal. If this is the case, some causes may be as follows:

Significant changes or transitions in key life situations such as career, health, relationships, geographic location, or finances.
Pressure to meet multiple expectations in the current environment.
A conscious or subconscious attempt in taking the assessment to be "everything to everyone."
Having this pattern of scores is not a cause for alarm. In fact, during situations as described above, a Mid-Range Profile is a very typical outcome. The passing of time usually gives the individual a clearer focus on his or her natural behaviors. Retaking the Personality I.D. Profile at a later date should provide more definitive and helpful results.

[Yellow]

Analyzer.

[Cavallier]

Driver...I don't agree at all. This is a persona I can and do take on but it is not who I am at all times. Or even most of the time.

General Description
As a Driver, you create activity and set the pace within your family and among your friends. Due to your desire to produce results, you quickly take charge by defining goals and delegating tasks. You are not afraid to take risks or impose your will through strong action in order to move ahead.

Typical Areas of Strength
Drivers, like you, are bold, direct, confident, competitive, often pioneering, assertive, frank, independent, and responsive to new challenges. You excel by having the freedom to define a direction focused on results.

Typical Areas of Struggle
You may be impatient, insensitive to the feelings of others, frustrated with details and routines, a poor listener, impulsive, too blunt, or overbearing.

Your Preferred Activities
To maximize your talents, you look for situations in which you can have a high level of independence, with obstacles to overcome, challenges to meet and solve, without many details to handle.

Your Communication Style
You communicate directly and forcefully, getting to the bottom line quickly. As a result, friends and family may see you as demanding, impersonal, and dominating.

[dbtng_thomas]

@ Cav - Were your percentages about equal? I think the test is made to give you one of four basic types, but the percentages can change that interpretation a lot.

[snowqueen]

You think that's bad - I got Motivator!!! I'm a closet ENFJ. Which is actually quite interesting because the ENFJ is Fe/Ni/Se/Ti which is in some ways not that dissimilar to INTP - and I've been wondering a lot recently about why my Ti was so much weaker when I was younger and my Fe was much stronger. Also I'm a great lover of nature, art, colour etc.

[wanders off ruminating about all this - think I need Adymus or Decaf to discuss this with]

[shoeless]

Encourager
General Description
As an Encourager, you are very relationship oriented and respond naturally to the needs of others. You want to be seen as an excellent listener who can respond to the challenge of helping others in practical ways, including solving personal problems.

Typical Areas of Strength
Encouragers, like you, are typically energetic, friendly, encouraging, patient, understanding, loyal, steady, dependable, and are willing to listen to the needs of others.

Typical Areas of Struggle
You often shy away from conflict and may avoid making difficult people decisions, rather than hurt the feelings of others.

Your Preferred Activities
Because you cooperate well with others, you function best with access to people who need assistance, encouragement, development.

Your Communication Style
You communicate through carefully chosen words, gestures, body language, facial expressions, and listening skills to communicate your concern.



...actually this sounds about right.
how very un-INTP-like of me.

[dbtng_thomas]

Dor - your profile type is Transition ... for most people, this set of scores reflects a temporary condition or situation, rather than the individual's natural personality. Significant events, life changes, and periods of transition can temporarily mask the individual's ability to render a valid self-appraisal. If this is the case, some causes may be as follows:

Significant changes or transitions in key life situations such as career, health, relationships, geographic location, or finances.
Pressure to meet multiple expectations in the current environment.
A conscious or subconscious attempt in taking the assessment to be "everything to everyone."

Wow, Dor. I didn't read that closely enough the first time. How very strange. What do you make of it?

[tashi]

Analyzer.From the description, sounds more like an intj then an intp.

[dbtng_thomas]

I did some reading about how DISC matches up with MBTI.

http://www.corexcel.com/myers_disc_compare.pdf

"This report shows that in addition to arising from different theoretical origins, the instruments measure different things. DiSC Classic describes behavior based on how people view themselves in their various environments. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator describes how people approach the environment intellectually and attitudinally and how they process information.

The profiles obtained from each instrument can not be expected to be correlated. They were designed for different purposes and based on different views of human behavior. Because the two instruments provide different kinds of information, they might very well augment each other as separate views of the same individual."

[Hengeo]

One more Analyzer..

[walfin]

Driver. D/S

I think I may have changed a bit recently, that's why.