The document outlines four primary personality types—D (Driver), I (Influencer), S (Steady), and C (Conscientious)—along with their strengths, weaknesses, motivators, and ideal environments. Each personality type has distinct behavioral traits, including their approach to teamwork, decision-making, and preferred interaction styles. Additionally, the document offers strategies for effective communication and collaboration with individuals of each personality type.

1. Personality Profiles

2. DiSC
TELL
Authority/Control Social Esteem/Being Liked
PEOPLE
Being Taken Advantage of Rejection
TASK
Organization Security/Harmony
Criticism Change/Conflict
LISTEN

3. Direct. Decisive. High ego strength.
Problem-solver. Risk-taker.
Self-starter.
Shapes environment by
overcoming opposition to
accomplish results.

4. Strengths Weaknesses
• Bottom line organizer. • Oversteps authority.
• Attempts too much at
• Places value on time. once.
• Challenges status quo. • Argumentative
attitude.
• Innovative. • Dislikes routine.

5. Motivators
• Motivated by:
▫ New challenges.
▫ Power and authority to take risks
and make decisions.
▫ Freedom from routine and
mundane tasks.
▫ Changing environments in which
to work and play.
• Greatest Fear:
▫ Being taken advantage of.

6. The ideal environment
• Innovative focus on
future.
• Non-routine, challenging
tasks and activities.
• Projects that produce
tangible results.
• Freedom from controls,
supervision, and details.
• Personal evaluation
based on results, not
methods.

7. Data handling
While analyzing information a D-type may:
− Ignore potential risks.
− Not weigh pros and cons.
− Not consider the opinions of others.
+ Offer innovative and progressive systems and
ideas.

8. • Self-reliant
in a Team Dynamic • Autocratic managerial
skills – great in a crisis!
Leader • Pushes group to make
decisions
• Willing to speak out
• Maintains focus on goals
• Innovative in obtaining
results
• Welcomes challenges
Problem without fear
Solver • Ability to overcome
obstacles
• Accepts risks
• Sees big picture
• Ability to handle multiple
Multitasker projects
• Functions well with
heavy workloads

9. Areas for Personal Growth
• Strive to be an “active” listener.
Listen • Be attentive to other team members’ ideas until consensus is
reached.
• Develop appreciation for opinions, feelings and desires of others.
• Be less controlling and domineering.
Relax • Pace yourself and relax more.
• Put more energy into personal relationships.
Exchang
• Show your support for other team members.
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• Take time to explain the whys of your statements/proposals.
Explain • Be friendlier and more approachable.

10. What a wants:
▫ Authority
▫ Prestige
▫ Freedom
▫ Direct answers
▫ Varied activities
▫ Assignments promoting
growth
▫ “Bottom line” approach
▫ Opportunity for
advancement

11. Interacting with a
Do: • Be brief, direct, to the
point.
• Ask what, not how
questions.
• Focus on business:
remember D-types desire
results.
• Suggest ways to achieve
results, lead, solve
problems.
• Highlight logical benefits
of featured ideas and
approaches.

12. Interacting with a
• Ramble.
• Repeat yourself.
• Focus only on
problems.
• Be too sociable.
• Make generalizations.
• Make statements
without support.
Don’t:

13. Enthusiastic. Trusting. Optimistic.
Persuasive. Talkative. Impulsive.
Emotional.
Shapes environment by
influencing or persuading
others.

14. Good
morning,
sunshine
!
Strengths Weaknesses
• Creative problem solver. • More concerned with
• Great encourager. popularity than tangible
• Motivates others to results.
achieve. • Inattentive to detail.
• Positive sense of humor. • Overuses gestures and
facial expressions.
• Negotiates conflicts.
• Tends to listen only when it
• Peacemaker. is convenient.

15. Motivators
• Motivated by:
▫ Flattery, praise, popularity and
acceptance.
▫ A friendly environment.
▫ Freedom from many rules and
regulations.
▫ Other people available to handle
details.
• Greatest Fear:
▫ Rejection.

16. The ideal environment
• Practical procedures.
Ok team! Ready
to do our swim
• Few conflicts and
thang? Waddaya arguments.
say! • Freedom from controls
Woot! and details.
• A forum to express
Doubl
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ideas.
woot! • Coaching and
counseling.
• Group activities in
professional and social
environments.

17. Data handling
While analyzing information an i-type may:
− Lose concentration
− Miss important facts and details.
− Interrupt.
+ Be creative in problem solving.

18. • Participatory manager –
in a Team Dynamic influence and inspire
• Provides direction, leadership
Influencer • Accomplishes goals through
people
• Motivates the team
• Spontaneous and agreeable
• Instinctive communicator
• Articulate
• Will offer opinions
• Makes good spokesperson
Communicator
• Persuasive
• Strong brainstorming sessions
• Responds well to the
unexpected
• Creates atmosphere of well
being
• Enthusiastic, good sense of
Peacemaker humor
• Positive attitude
• Works well with other people
• Accepting of others

19. Areas for Personal Growth
• Be less impulsive.
• Weigh the pros and cons before making a decision.
Control • Exercise control over your actions, words, emotions.
• Be more results oriented.
• Concentrate on following through with tasks.
Focus • Focus more on details and facts.
• Remember to slow down your pace for other team
members.
Cooperate • Talk less, listen more.
• Consider and evaluate ideas from other team members.

20. What an wants:
▫ Social esteem and
acceptance
▫ Recognition for abilities
▫ Freedom from details and
control
▫ People to talk to
▫ Positive working
conditions
▫ Opportunity to motivate
and influence others

21. Interacting with an
Do:
• Build a favorable/friendly
environment.
• Give opportunity for
verbalization about ideas,
people, “intuition”.
• Help develop talk into
action.
• Share testimonials from
others relating to proposed
ideas.
• Allow time for stimulating,
sociable activities.
• Submit details in writing,
but don’t dwell on them.
• Develop a participative
relationship.
• Create incentives for task
There is an “i” in TEAM! follow-through.

22. Interacting with an
• Eliminate social time.
• Do all the talking.
Don’t:
• Ignore their ideas or
accomplishments.
• Tell them what to do.

23. Good listener. Team player.
Possessive. Steady. Predictable.
Understanding. Friendly.
Cooperates with others
within existing circumstances
to carry out a task.

24. Changes
?? Oh
nooo!
Strengths Weaknesses
• Reliable and dependable. • Resists change.
• Loyal team worker. • Takes a long time to adjust
• Compliant towards to change.
authority. • Holds a grudge.
• Good listener, patient and • Sensitive to criticism.
empathetic. • Difficulty establishing
• Good at reconciling conflicts. priorities.

25. Motivators
• Motivated by:
zen!
▫ Recognition of loyalty and
dependability.
▫ Safety and security.
▫ No sudden changes in
procedure or lifestyle.
▫ Activities that can be started
and finished.
• Greatest Fear:
▫ Loss of security.

26. The ideal environment
We’re all • A team atmosphere.
along for this
ride, so let’s • Practical procedures
make the
best of it! and systems.
• Stability and
predictability.
• Tasks that can be
completed at one time.
• Few conflicts and
arguments.

27. Data handling
While analyzing information an S-type may:
− Be outwardly agreeable but inwardly unyielding.
− Internalize their concerns and doubts.
− Hesitate to share feedback during presentation.
− Slow down the action.
+ Provide valuable support for team goals.

28. • Instinctive relater
• Makes others feel like they
in a Team Dynamic belong
• Shows sincerity
Relationship
Builder • Focused and intuitive about
people and relationships
• Strives to build relationships
• Shows patience with others
• Participative manager –
accomplishes goals through
personal relationships
Team Player • Buys into team goals
• Identifies strongly with team
• Loyal, dependable
• Provides specialized skills
• Can see an easier way of
doing things
• Full of common sense
Voice of • Considers elements of a total
Reason project
• Realistic and practical
• Even tempered
• Provides stability

29. Areas for Personal Growth
• Be more open to change.
• Develop more flexibility.
Adapt
• Be more direct in your interactions.
• Deal constructively with confrontation.
Interact • Work at expressing thoughts, opinions, feelings.
• Focus on overall goals of the team rather than specific
procedures.
Reach • Increase pace to accomplish goals.
• Show more initiative.

30. What an wants:
▫ Security in situations
▫ Sincere appreciation
▫ Repeated work patterns
▫ Time to adjust to change
▫ Limited territory of
responsibility

31. Interacting with an
Do:
• Create favorable environment:
personable and agreeable.
• Express genuine personal
interest in them.
• Provide clarification for tasks,
answers to how questions.
• Be patient in drawing out goals.
• Present ideas/departures from
current practices in non-
threatening manner.
• Give S-types time to adjust.
• Clearly define goals, procedures
& their role in the overall plan.
• Assure them of personal follow-
up support.
• Explain how their actions will
minimize involved risks and
enhance current procedures.

32. Interacting with an
Don’t:
• Be pushy, overly
aggressive or demanding.
• Be too confrontational.

33. Accurate. Analytical.
Conscientious. Careful. Fact-finder.
Precise. High standards.
Systematic.
Works conscientiously within
existing circumstances to
ensure quality and accuracy.

34. Strengths Weaknesses
• Perspective: “the anchor of • Needs clear-cut boundaries
reality”. for actions/relationships.
• Conscientious and even- • Bound by procedures and
tempered. methods.
• Thorough in all activities. • Gets bogged down in details.
• Defines situation. • Prefers not to verbalize
• Gathers, criticizes and tests feelings.
information. • Will give in rather than argue.

35. Motivators
• Motivated by:
▫ Standards of high quality.
▫ Limited social interaction.
▫ Detailed tasks.
▫ Opportunities to
demonstrate expertise.
▫ Logical organization of
information.
• Greatest Fear:
▫ Criticism.

36. The ideal environment
• Tasks and projects that
can be followed through
to completion.
• Specialized for technical
tasks.
• Practical work
procedures and routines.
• Few conflicts and
arguments.
• Instructions and
reassurance that they
are doing what is
expected of them.

37. Data handling
While analyzing information a C-type may:
− Become overly cautious and conservative.
− Get too bogged down in details.
− Avoid or postpone decisions, especially if they
perceive a risk.
Well ya see, that’s
+ Be an effective troubleshooter. where things got
all wonky. All
better now though!

38. • Instinctive organizer
• “Do it yourself” manager
in a Team Dynamic Organizer
– creates and maintains
systems
• Thinks logically
• Works systematically
• Strives for logical,
consistent environment
Quality • Controls details
Control • Conscientious
• Emphasizes quality
• Analyzes obstacles
• Evaluates team’s
Data progress
Analyst • Maintains focus on tasks
• Asks important
questions
• Diplomatic
• Will strive for consensus
Diplomat • Offers subtle/indirect
approaches
• Will share risks and
responsibilities

39. Areas for Personal Growth
• Respond more quickly to team goals.
• Be more decisive.
Act • Take risks along with other team members.
• Concentrate on doing the right things, not just doing
things right.
Prioritize • Focus less on facts and more on people.
• Be less critical of others’ ideas and methods.
Compromis • Strive to build relationships with other team members.
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40. What a wants:
▫ Autonomy and
independence
▫ Controlled work
environment
▫ Values of quality and
accuracy
▫ Reassurance
▫ Precise expectations
and goals
▫ Exact job descriptions
▫ Planned change

41. Interacting with a
Do:
• Prepare your case in advance.
• Delineate pros/cons of proposed
ideas.
• Support ideas and statements
with accurate data.
• Reassure C-types that no
surprises will occur.
• Submit an exact job description
with a precise explanation of how
that task fits into the big picture.
• Review recommendations with C-
type in a systematic and
comprehensive manner.
• Be specific when agreeing; when
disagreeing, disagree with the
facts rather than with the person.
• Be patient, persistent, diplomatic
while providing explanations.

42. Interacting with a
Don’t:
Who?
• Refuse to explain
details.
• Answer questions
vaguely or casually.

43. Driver Influencer Steady Compliance
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