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Being Yourself

There are two sides of us when we hold a job, one of the most recent analysis tools I've used is regarding a DISC assessment.  We can lead a natural and adapted style depending on our job and what is expected of us.  This is a tool that asks you a series of questions and related them into four categories:

A free assessment can be found here:  https://openpsychometrics.org/tests/ODAT/
  • Dominance: How we act to express ourselves, by being outgoing in making our demands known to others.
  • Influence: The ways we interact with others to gain approval or make ourselves known.
  • Steadiness: Being calm in the face of stress, value of cooperation.
  • Conscioentousness: How we follow regularity, order and adaption to changes.
These are concepts we can use to identify ourselves and how others can be identified.  Using this assessment, my team recently was able to find out what they were doing from the perspective other than their own.  Much of the assessment was accurate to the way they didn't know they viewed their daily lives.  In order for us to have a higher Emotional Intelligence, knowing oneself is an important step in being able to know others and know how to use our strengths and identify our weaknesses in situations of our lives.  

In Caroline McHugh's video, she discusses being able to know yourself and expressing who you are rather than what others have expected of you.  Being someone other than who you are can be stressful and tire you out, and outlined by some DISC Assessment's they show a Natural (Personal) and Adapted (Work) personality, where if these key categories are different enough, can cause frustration and difficulty because you are being someone at work that you are not naturally inclined to.



 Even if you were hired to do a particular job, you may have an idea of what is expected of you that is causing stress.  You may have been asked to lead in a way that is against your natural style.  Take a moment to reflect on how you perform at work and what you can change to better adapt your job to who you are rather than constricting yourself to someone else's idea.  One way process improvements get implemented is by viewing them from a new vantage point, and expressing them with vigor that you can get from really being behind the idea.  If you're trying to sell an idea that you can't fully back with your natural aptitude, is it something you really want to have to do?

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  1. CandaceNovember 8, 2020 at 1:09 PM

    I love taking these types of assessments. It can really help us identify not only how we communicate, but how we communicate differently with those that have a different style than our own. I think we definitely have our work-self and our non-work-self. The closer we can meld those two, however, I think the less tired and drained it would make us feel. Thanks for sharing this awesome video.

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    1. KatNovember 8, 2020 at 6:56 PM

      I completely agree! Personality assessments are such a valuable tool in strengthening and easing connections. This area of HRD is incredibly fascinating to me. Of all the assessments I've taken, I feel like DISC is the most well rounded and insightful. Thanks for sharing!

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