Style of Communication – Do You Know Yours?

8/12/16 Publish Date 8/19/16

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How do your behaviors give away the type of leader you are, and how can understanding of natural behavioral traits increase team
effectiveness? Understanding your own and other’s DISC leadership styles will enable you to better place and motivate your people
in a high-performing team.

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Whatever the industry in which your organization operates, your managers and leaders are principally involved
in the people business. Their responsibility is for the construction and maintenance of an environment that gets
work done, using communicative communication strategies that enhance employee engagement. Utilizing DISC
personality behavioral styles helps leaders to identify communicative communication styles and build upon the
and the motivation tion of of employees using behavioral leadership theory.

Understanding behaviors to increase team performance

Having the ability to read people is often considered to be something of a natural talent; an art rather than
science. However, the DISC personality styles model uses a simple and yet scientific method to enable the
understanding of others’ behaviors. This helps to identify an individual’s strengths and weaknesses, helping use
personality styles to a team’s best advantage.

DISC personality styles and model behaviors

The DISC personality styles circle is divided into four quadrants:

1. Dominance

2. Influence

3. Compliance

4. Steadiness

And, basedAnd based upon two internal and two external behavioral traits:

 Internally, we observe see outgoing and reserved

 Externally we observe see task-oriented and people-oriented

We all have an element of each of these behavioral traits in us, and display them at different times and in
different conditions. Commonly, though, we display one or two in our everyday behavior: identify these and
you identify how well someone may fit into a particular team, what duties and responsibilities they will be most
adept at, and how to support them in career progression.
Where do you fit in?

Dominant people are outgoing and task-oriented. They are focused on outcomes, good problem solvers, and
concerned about the bottom line.

Influencers (or inspirers) are outgoing and people-oriented. They will interact and communicate freely,
showing interest in others.

Steadiness is exhibited by people in the third quadrant. These may be modest and sincere, and will also be
sincere in what they say and how they act.

Compliant people are task-oriented but reserved. They will be cautious thinkers, and accurate in their daily
work.

The DISC personality style model will help managers identify their own behaviors, strengths and weaknesses,
as well as those of others. To help managers and leaders achieve this level of self-understanding, we
recommend:

 A DISC Personality personality Aassessment

 Coaching in learning to understand the DISC Styles of others the DISC personality styles of others
  Coaching in adapting style to collaborate more effectively with others and build stronger teams

Through this coaching model, leaders will be better able placed to communicate more effectively and develop
the workplace relationships to to jumpstart change, crafting apersonalizing to individuals and ensuring that the a
message that communicates too and is understood by all communicated is understood by all.

Contact Forward Focus today to Discover how a n emotional intelligence course on DISC Styles will develop
and embed effective communication personal skills in the workplace, for leaders, managers, and employees.

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Understanding your own natural behaviors and those of others will help you to work more effectively as a manager, and develop
high-performing and highly motivated teams. To do this, DISC performance styles and personality assessment and training are key.