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- DISC Assessment Test: Knowing yourself scientifically
DISC Assessment Test: Knowing yourself scientifically |
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Recently my entire office were put through DISC assessment test. DISC is a quadrant behavioral model based on the work of Dr. William Moulton Marston (1893–1947) to examine the behavior of individuals in their environment or within a specific situation (otherwise known as environment). It therefore focuses on the styles and preferences of such behavior. It breaks down the human behavior into 4 distinct quadrant:
The results you would get from the test is highly accurate. There are a few of our folks that has common behaviors and you can see not just from their work but even little things like their eating habits.
Importantly it helps you to understand more about yourself and let you make better decisions about what suits you and what doesn’t. For instance someone with a low I would typically be a person that prefers to think than speak. Try putting that person on a stage to make a living and you are just setting him up for failure. (Which could be why my aspiration to be a singer didn’t pan out. I’m an extreme low I)
And that is what a lot of fresh graduates are doing right now. Without a good understanding of themselves, they often set themselves up for failure jumping from one job to another.
Much as it has almost been accepted by the society to lower the period of measurement in regards to job hopping, you will ultimately gain a competitive advantage if you had been in a stable employment for a substantial period of time.
And to do so you really need to know more about yourself and validate what you like and what you don’t.
“He who looks outside, dreams. He who looks inside, awakens.” – Carl Jung
- Adrian Tan, Managing Director
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