Personality Profiling
Benefits of Behavioural Models / Personality Profiling
Behavioural Models are used to better understand clients, colleagues and employees within the workplace. Participants gain a greater appreciation for the impact they have on others, and they discover how others may respond to their style. The goal of behavioural model programs is for participants to learn how to leverage strengths enabling all parties to be more effective.
Behavioural modelling is extremely successful when used for Team Building, Management Development, Performance Management and Staff Development.
RdL Management Consultants is accredited in two personality profiling tools, DiSC and Myers Briggs Type Indicator – MBTI
About DiSC
DiSC is the four quadrant behavioural model based on the work of William Moulton Marston (Ph.D.) to examine the behaviour of individuals in their environment or within a specific situation. DiSC looks at behavioural styles and behavioural preferences.
- Dominance - relating to control, power and assertiveness. People who score high in the intensity of the 'D' styles factor are very active in dealing with problems and challenges High ‘D’ people are described as demanding, forceful, egocentric, strong willed, driving, determined, ambitious, aggressive, and pioneering.
- Influence - relating to social situations and communication. People with High ‘i’ scores influence others through talking and activity and tend to be emotional. They are described as convincing, magnetic, political, enthusiastic, persuasive, warm, demonstrative, trusting, and optimistic
- Steadiness - relating to patience, persistence, and thoughtfulness. People with High ‘S’ styles scores want a steady pace, security, and don't like sudden change. High ‘S’ persons are calm, relaxed, patient, possessive, predictable, deliberate, stable, consistent, and tend to be unemotional and poker faced.
- Conscientiousness - relating to structure and organization. Persons with High ‘C’ styles adhere to rules, regulations, and structure. They like to do quality work and do it right the first time. High ‘C’ people are careful, cautious, exacting, neat, systematic, diplomatic, accurate and tactful.
- Extraversion vs. Introversion
- Sensing vs. Intuition
- Feeling vs. Thinking
- Judging vs. Perceiving
About Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a personality questionnaire designed to identify certain psychological differences according to the typological theories of Carl Gustav Jung. In a similar way to left or right handedness, the principle is that individuals also find certain ways of thinking and acting easier than others.
The MBTI endeavours to sort some of these psychological opposites into four opposite pairs, or dichotomies, with a resulting sixteen possible combinations. None of these combinations is 'better' or 'worse', however Briggs and Myers recognised that everyone has an overall combination which is most comfortable for them: in the same way as writing with the left hand is hard work for a right-hander, so people tend to find using their opposite psychological preference more difficult, even if they can become more proficient (and therefore behaviourally flexible) with practice and development.
The four pairs of preferences or dichotomies are