Your Guide to DISC Profiles & Personality Assessments
DISCOVER WHAT DRIVES YOU WITH A DISC PROFILE
Self-awareness is essential to success. If you don’t understand what drives your actions and behaviors, it’s difficult to cultivate positive growth and real professional development. As you discover what inspires you, you can start to identify what may hold you back from success, as well as the traits, habits, and behaviors that propel you forward. When you take your free DISC personality assessment, you’ll be provided with a complete profile that shows you how to leverage the various aspects of your personality for a life of achievement that aligns with your personal values.
The DISC personality profile is designed for anyone who wants to gain actionable insights about themselves. By enhancing self-knowledge and revealing the limiting beliefs that could be holding you back from achieving your goals, the DISC personality assessment can help you develop strategies to create a breakthrough in any area of your life.
In most cases, a DISC profile assessment is used in a team-based setting. These DISC profiles create a common language that professionals, recruiting teams, C-suite decision-makers, and others can use to describe, evaluate, and understand themselves and others.
What is a DISC Personality Assessment?
Developed by psychologist William Moulton Marston, the DISC assessment examines how an individual ranks in the four primary personality types – dominance, influence, steadiness, and conscientiousness. Everyone has these four characteristics, but the strength of each varies on an individual level.
None of the DISC personality traits are inherently positive or negative. The profile is nonjudgmental, focused solely on helping those who take the assessment respond to conflict, resolve problems, and discover what lies behind their common habits or working styles.
More than 2 million people have taken the 15-minute DISC profile assessment to better understand their personality type, their strengths, and their behavioral style. The assessment is designed for both individuals who want to identify and maximize their strengths and motivators, as well as organizations that want to integrate high-performance teams.
Cowen Partners uses the DISC assessment for executive recruitment and hiring practices.
We have created this FREE Cowen Partners DISC assessment tool for anyone to use – a $100 value, available at zero cost.
What Are Some Benefits of DISC Profile Assessments?
The DISC personality assessment is one of the most common “tests” used in business — for very good reasons. The results of these workplace personality assessments can unlock several benefits for both individuals and teams across any industry or type of organization.
Self-Awareness
You cannot develop your strengths and work on your weaknesses if you don’t know what they are. The DISC profile can improve self-awareness, meaning the ability to objectively and realistically evaluate yourself. That can be the foundation of success in your work life and your personal life.
Teamwork
With improved communication and conflict resolution, you’ll discover overall stronger cohesiveness in your teams. Team members will better understand each other and themselves. They can also gain a deeper understanding of how they complement each other’s strengths and weaknesses.
Leadership
Great leaders are effective communicators who know how to influence others, build rapport, and inspire teams. You will not be able to do that without a deeper understanding of yourself and others. By knowing more about your personality and working style, as well as the personalities and working styles of your team, you can become a more successful leader.
Communication
If self-awareness is the foundation of success, communication is the foundation of great teams. The ability to identify challenges, communicate them effectively, and find practical solutions is vital to successful teamwork. Therefore, it’s also vital for successful businesses.
Conflict Resolution
When you know how everyone on your team communicates, you can identify where potential conflicts may occur. You can also get to the root cause more quickly whenever issues arise. The DISC profile can reveal the deeper personality conflicts that can be behind team members disagreements and disputes.
Customer Service
DISC profiles are especially effective for sales and customer service teams, who need to understand and adapt to many different types of personalities. When teams know their own personalities, as well as those of their audience, they can foster those real, human connections that prospects and customers are seeking.
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A Scientific Solution for Professionals.
At Cowen Partners, our DISC assessments lead by example, with independent validation meeting APA, EEOC, AERA, and NCME standards. Our goal is to ensure the trust of both our members and end-users alike by providing the most accurate and reliable assessments available. This is why we believe in a policy of total transparency, with every study’s report available for your review, and available to be shared with your clients and colleagues. In an apples-to-apples comparison, we believe our DISC assessment, along with other personality tests and culture fit assessments, will prove to be the top choice among industry professionals who value accuracy, compliance, and objectivity.
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