Everyone grew up differently and was brought up differently. Over the years everyone has built up a certain core personality that has been shaped by their environment. This core personality continues to be exposed to the stimuli of its environment and thus exhibits individual behavior. Every stimulus from the outside is followed by a reaction from the inside - this is also the case in everyday office life.
In teams, different people with different core personalities work together every day. Differing views, divided opinions and conflicts are the order of the day. With the help of the DISC model, employees can now understand how they recognize the behavioral patterns of their colleagues and why certain types of people react differently in the same situations.
DISC stands for the four essential levels of expression of a person in dealing with his environment: dominant, initiative, steady and conscientious. People have different characteristics in the sub-areas, but usually one of these four directions is slightly more pronounced. Dominant and conscientious employees are more task-oriented - initiative and steady employees are more people-oriented. Dominant and initiative people are more extroverted - steady and conscientious people are more introverted.
A special questionnaire is used to determine exactly how pronounced a type is. Depending on the characteristics, different conclusions can be drawn about human behavior - why they act the way they do in certain situations. With these insights, you can use your employees more specifically for the various areas of responsibility in your company. For example, you are less likely to give a highly introverted person jobs that require a high level of customer interaction. A manager, for example, should be dominant on the one hand in order to be able to assert oneself - but also be people-oriented in order to be able to respond to the needs of the employees.
With this knowledge you should now set up the teams. In this way you can ensure, for example, that there are not too many dominant personalities working together in a team in order to avoid conflicts. Also choose the team leader according to his characteristics in order to let the team lead optimally. A good mix of all four types of people creates an optimal team structure. You need both task-oriented and people-oriented employees. Both introverted and extroverted employees. This is how you create harmony in your teams.
Would you also like to use the DISC model in your company? Do you want to optimize your team structures and use your employees in a targeted manner?
