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Using DISC to Understand Construction People's Personality
To understand people's personality, we are best served by using a proven system of analysis. There are several ones on the market and available to contractors. However, none is more simple, tenured or defendable than the DISC system. The DISC Profile Methodolgy is a helpful device to understand an individual's behavioral pattern and what emotions they might feel. This system provides labels, definitions and a structure to explain different visible behaviors and internal emotions. This aids contractors so an employee's personality strengths can be directed and weaknesses can be augmented for the benefit of everyone including the employee. Equally as valuable when analysing a prospective employee. Many a contractor has experienced "we hired him on his resume but, fired him based on his behavior!" DISC helps project the future employee's behavior in the job.
In other words, it helps explain the mysteries of people.
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Matt Stevens is a management consultant who works only with construction contractors. He has performed training and business consultation for the contracting community since 1994. Matt can be reached
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Posted by Matt Stevens at October 10, 2005 10:01 PM
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