DO YOU FEEL LIKE A SQUARE PEG IN A ROUND HOLE By Action International Business Coach Michael Bedard

Knowing how and where people work best can be a powerful and lucrative tool for business owners with a team of people. Personality profiling is not a new tool by any means, but still one of the best ways to ensure you are able to achieve a close-to-perfect match when selecting new employees and repositioning existing personnel.

At Action International, we use DiSC and VAK to help make decisions about team members and where best to place them. It also helps the team gain a better understanding on how to communicate with each other. Knowing someone's personal profile allows for a much better understanding of how the person learns and operates.

DiSC
DiSC uses the Style Analysis Instrument and was initially designed to assist people achieve a higher degree of success in life and work. Successful people know their strengths and limitations and by realizing their weaknesses, are able to overcome their shortcomings and take full advantage of their strengths. DiSC uncovers insights about four dimensions of normal behavior. A brief description of the four behaviors is listed below:

"D" Style "I" Style "S" Style "C" Style
Adventuresome Charming Amiable Accurate
Competitive Confident Friendly Analytical
Daring Convincing Good Listener Conscientious
Decisive Enthusiastic Patient Diplomatic
Direct Inspiring Self-starter Trusting
Innovative Optimistic Relaxed Fact-Finder
Persistent Persuasive Sincere High Standards
Problem Solver Popular Stable Mature
Results-Orientated Sociable Steady Patient
Team Player Precise
Understanding