E-Disc is a questionnaire that provides a comprehensive report to help you identify your behavioural styles.
E-Disc is a questionnaire that provides a comprehensive report to help you identify your behavioural styles.
At Luminate we use E-Disc with our clients to help them understand what motivates and challenges them (or their people), where natural strengths and challenges lie and also how they are perceived by their teammates. It also helps to communicate more effectively, be more productive and collaborate better.
The Extended DISC theory and model is derived from a psychological theory developed in the 1920s by Carl Jung. It is important to note that the questionnaire is NOT a personality test. In fact, it’s not a test in any way - you don’t pass or fail, get a high or low score or get labelled into better or worse categories. Each of the styles has their own advantages and disadvantages.
D is known as Dominance.
D styles can be competitive, aggressive, decisive and results-oriented, but may also be impatient, overbearing and even rude.
They make up 8% of the AU/NZ population
I is for
Influence.
I styles can be talkative, sociable, optimistic and friendly, but may also be inattentive to detail, overly talkative and emotional.
They make up 32% of the AU/NZ population
S stands for
Steadiness.
S styles can be calm, helpful, patient, modest and laid back, but may also need stability and security and, therefore, need help with change.
They make up 35% of the AU/NZ population
C is for
Compliance.
C styles can be precise, logical, matter-of-fact, analytical and careful, but may also focus too much on details and lose sight of the big picture.
They make up 25% of the AU/NZ population
After completing the questionnaire your data is analysed and you receive a report that outlines your natural behavioural style. This is the behavioural style that takes the least amount of energy and effort, requires the least amount of concentration and is usually the most comfortable. This is the mode that you normally use to react and is most frequently exhibited outwardly in your behaviour. Most people are a combination of two or three styles but more often than not one style is the prominent style.
My natural profile detailed that I am ‘I’ dominant with CS mixed in, which I was pretty pleased to learn is an extremely rare combination. Only about 4% of the population has that mix - my parents always did say I was one in a million!
What I found most interesting in my report was the information in my adjusted behavioural style. The conscious behaviour that you believe you need to adjust to meet the demands of your present environment. This doesn’t mean that you are weak in these areas (in fact it can mean the opposite) but your profile outlines that these are the types of behaviours that take up more energy and concentration. These are where our learnt behaviours show up.
My adjusted profile showed that my C style decreased and my I style increased even more which shows that at work I highlight more of my talkative, people-oriented skills and a little less of my methodical, detail-oriented side. I suppose that’s fairly understandable when you work as a facilitator!
With all that I learnt whilst gaining my accreditation, I thought I would leave you with some tips on how to run really effective meetings by considering all 4 behavioural styles.
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