Parenting DISC

CHOLERIC (D for DOMINANCE)

Keyword
- Power
- Confidence
- Developer
- Results orientated
- Inspirational
- Creative
- Commanding
- Resolute
- Pioneering

Best At
- Motivating people to action
- Giving quick & clear instruction
- Getting it done
- Leading
- Overcoming opposition to accomplish results

Presents As
- Authoritative & Convincing
- Sees the big picture
- Can be blunt
- Accepts challenges
- Gets straight to the point

Major Needs
- Action & Excitement
- Motivated by winning, competition and success
- Prioritizes accepting challenge, taking action and achieving immediate results
- Direct, demanding, forceful, strong willed, driven, and determined, fast paced and self confident
- May be limited by lack of concern for others, impatience and open skepticism
- May fear being seen as vulnerable or being taken advantage of
- Values competency, action, concrete results, personal freedom, challenges

Goals
- Unique accomplishments
- New opportunities
- Control of audience
- Independence

When communicating with the "D" Style
- Give them bottom line
- Be brief
- Focus your discussion narrowly
- Avoid making generalizations
- Refrain from repeating yourself
- Focus on solutions rather than problems




SANGUINE (I for Influence)

Keyword
- Popular
- Promoter
- Persuader
- Counselor
- Appraiser
- Energizing
- Pioneering
- Affirming
- Openness
- Relationships

Best At
- Making initial contact with people
- Creating enthusiasm & excitement
- Encouraging & uplifting others
- Ensuring that the group has fun
- Influencing or persuading others

Presents As
- Outgoing & engaging
- Shows enthusiasm
- Is optimistic
- Likes to collaborate
- Dislikes being ignored
- Being impulsive and disorganized and having lack of follow through
- Convincing, magnetic, enthusiastic, warm, trusting and optimistic
- Prioritizes taking action, collaboration and expressing enthusiasm

Major Needs
- Fun & Adventure
- Motivated by social recognition, group activities and relationships
- May fear loss of influence, disapproval and being ignored
- Values coaching and counselling, freedom of expression and democratic relationships

Goals
- Victory with flair
- Friendship and happiness
- Authority and prestige status symbols
- Popularity

When communicating with the "I" Style
- Share your experiences
- Allow the "I" style person time to ask questions and talk themselves
- Focus on the positives
- Avoid overloading them with details
- Don't interrupt them




PHLEGMATIC (S for Steadiness)

Keyword
- Peaceful
- Layback
- Doesn't like to be rushed
- Specialist
- Achiever
- Agent
- Investigator
- Inclusive
- Humble
- Affirming

Best At
- Staying calm & functional
- Not overreacting to a negative situation
- Listening effectively
- Making sure the group is relaxed & comfortable
- Cooperating with others within existing circumstances to carry out the task

Presents As
- Believable
- Genuine
- Calm manner and approach
- Supportive actions
- Prioritizes giving support, collaboration and maintaining stability
- Described as calm, patient, predictable, deliberate, stable and consistent

Major Needs
- Rest & Quiet time
- Need to have a room by themselves
- Prefer not to be disturbed
- Motivated by cooperation, opportunities to help and sincere appreciation - May be limited by being indecisive, overly accommodating and tendency to avoid change
- May fear change, loss of stability and offending others
- Values loyalty, helping others and security

Goals
- Personal accomplishments
- Group acceptance
- Power through formal roles and positions of authority
- Maintenance o status quo and controlled environment

When communicating with the "S" Style
- Be personal and amiable
- Express your interest in them and what you expect from them
- Take time to provide clarification
- Be polite and avoid being confrontational, overly aggressive or rude




MELANCHOLY (C for Conscientiousness)

Keyword
- Perfect
- Picky
- Precise
- Stability
- Objective thinker
- Perfectionist
- Practitioner
- Deliberate
- Humble
- Resolute

Best At
- Planning & Explaining the details
- Doing it right
- Being sensitive to the needs of others
- Handling numbers, charts, graphs etc
- Working conscientiously within existing circumstances to ensure quality and accuracy

Presents As
- Accurate & Sincere
- Enjoys independence
- Objective reasoning
- Wants the details
- Prioritizes ensuring accuracy, maintaining stability and challenging assumptions
- Described as careful, cautious, systematic, diplomatic, accurate and tactful

Major Needs
- Order & Understanding

- Need to have schedule and will stick it to the end
- Fears being wronged
- Motivated by opportunities to gain knowledge, showing their expertise and quality work
- May be limited by being overcritical, overanalyzing and isolating themselves
- May fear criticism and being wronged
- Values quality and accuracy

Goals
- Unique accomplishments
- Correctness
- Predictable accomplishments
- Personal growth

When communicating with the "C" Style
- Focus on facts and details
- Minimize "pep talk" or emotional language
- Be patient, persistent and diplomatic




Generally, personality do not change with time unless there is a trauma happens and a person's personality may alter/change to adjust the situation. It can be split or completely change to another personality




How to motivate them?
SANGUINE
- Praise them

CHOLERIC
- Give them Recognition
- Praise them in front of others

MELANCHOLY
- Offer Rewards

PHLEGMATIC
- Provides lots of Affection
- Give Hugs, love & kisses




Can they take Criticism?
SANGUINE
- YES

CHOLERIC
- NO
- Instead encourage them further

MELANCHOLY (PERFECTIONIST)
- NO

PHLEGMATIC
- YES




Career Choices for them?
SANGUINE
- Motivator
- Sales & Marketing
- Comedian
- Counselling
- HR
- Media industry


CHOLERIC
- Management


MELANCHOLY
- Architecture
- Accountant
- Finance
- Doctor
- Engineer


PHLEGMATIC
- Social Worker
- Pastor & Priest
- Teacher
- Negotiator
- Linguistic industry
- Translator
- Nurses




PERSONALITY PROFILING (D.I.S.C)
Dominance (Choleric)
- Direct
- Results oriented
- Firm
- Strong willed
- Forceful

Influence (Sanguine)
- Outgoing
- Enthusiastic
- Optimistic
- High spirited
- Lively

Steadiness (Phlegmatic)
- Even tempered
- Accomodating
- Patient
- Humble
- Tactful

Conscientiousness (Melancholy)
- Analytical
- Reserved
- Precise
- Private
- Systematic




Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid
- Albert Einstein -