The Upper STYLE assessment tool uses the DISC model to evaluate leadership styles. DISC identifies four characteristics - Dominance, Influence, Steadiness, and Compliance. It helps people understand their own behaviors and how to interact with others. Upper STYLE can be used for self-development, team building, recruitment, coaching, and other purposes. For more information on Upper STYLE and training, contact Upper Knowledge Co.

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Leadership Style Assessment
Assess your leadership style with…
Upper STYLE Personality Decoder
There is no such leader who becomes successful without cooperation and support from
others. Nowadays, the leaders are required not only good at managing their tasks, but also
need to possess broad vision and good at people management. Therefore, communication
skills and collaboration skills are among the top list of leader’s qualification.
For almost a hundred years, psychologist had studied about the differences of human
behaviors in responding to stimulus and external environment. The studies show 4 dimensions
of human intrinsic drives known as DISC. Nowadays, this principle is well developed as an
assessment tool to describe human behavior patterns, called DISC Behavioral Assessment
which is widely used among firms, recruitment, self-development, study, and career selection.
DISC stands for 4 characteristics: Dominance (D), Influence (I), Steadiness (S) and
Compliance (C). Each characteristic is different from one another as follows.
Dominance: direct, confident, decisive, determined, confronting, making quick
decisions, fast-working, active, and result-oriented. A person who is dominant likes challenges,
adventures, and competitions, desires for power, eager to solve problems, and looks at the big
picture.
Influence: 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. Those with low "I" scores influence
more by data and facts, and not with feelings. They are described as reflective, factual,
calculating, skeptical, logical, suspicious, matter of fact, pessimistic, and critical.
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Steadiness: calm, patient, good listener, sympathizing others, gentle, humble, steady,
neat, cautious, and passive. A person who has steadiness follows work direction, cooperate
with the team, and pay attention to safety and security
Compliance: methodical, formal adhered to rules and standards, disciplined, attentive,
to details and facts, accurate, analytical, rational, cautious, prudent, contemplative, and
introvert.
These four behavioral characteristics are not to be compared among one another. No
right or wrong. No better or worse. Each has its own strengths and weakness. There are more
or less all four characteristics blended in one person. In general, only one or two of them will
stand out.
DISC helps us “read” ourselves, explaining who we are, how we behave, what our
strengths and weaknesses are, what matter affects our feelings, and being aware of our
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behaviors. It helps finding what suits us and the appropriate ways to improve our behavior for
our best.
Upper STYLE helps us understand others’ behaviors better, why they do such thing,
act this way, respond that way, and use that tone of voice and gestures. With DISC principle,
it helps broadens a perception of certain behaviors, helping us understand people’s nature,
view in different angles, and get to know who they really are. In consequence, we can
determine the appropriate “interaction” for each person, adjust our attitudes towards people,
and accept and respect people’s differences.
The extensions of using Upper STYLE for further development are
+ Self development
+ Teamwork
+ Team synergy
+ People skill
+ Internal communication
+ Relationship
+ Recruitment/Selection
+ Coaching
+ Talent management/retention
+ Customer service
+ Negotiation
+ Selling
+ CRM
+ Self adaptation for working under pressure
+ Conflict management
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For more information about this tool for the assessment and apply to training roadmap setting.
Please contact.
Training Solutions Department
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