CARD548 PREPARATION GUIDE: DISC Assignment Personal Styles Analysis: The AMA DISC SurveyTM INTRODUCTION: The DISC Survey is designed to measure four basic styles of behavior. Those are Directing, Influencing, Supportive, and Contemplative. Each style has strong points, and possible weaknesses, to an individual’s effectiveness. The survey materials will show both productive aspects of each of the four styles, as well as counterproductive aspects. Take the DISC Survey online using the instructions found in the Week One Assignments page. Then, complete the following assignment that is due in the Dropbox by the end of Week Two of the session. YOUR ASSIGNMENT: Write a 3 to no more than 5 page double-spaced paper [be sure to use subheadings to identify each section] in which you use the results of your DISC Survey. The content of your DISC paper should include, but is not limited to, answers to the following questions: I. Describe your personal styles (25 points) Describe your strongest style(s) and your weakest style. Provide examples to illustrate how the strong styles characterize you (or, in the case of your weakest style, do not characterize you). If your profile is balanced, describe either how the four styles equally characterize you or how your styles change depending on circumstances. II. Discuss how you developed your styles (25 points) Consider the possible effects of family, school, organizational memberships, and/or culture on the development of your self-reported styles. Discuss the factor that you think was most important in shaping your personal styles. III. Assess the impact of your styles on your effectiveness (25 points) Discuss the impact of your styles in terms of two factors--such as interpersonal relations, group activities, individual or managerial performance. IV. Identify a target for change and a specific change strategy (25 points) Focus on a single style and a concrete, behavioral strategy for change. If there are certain issues that you would prefer not to discuss, simply exclude them from your paper and focus on other styles, events, or factors. Your assignments are due by Sunday, end of week two, 11:59 P.M. (MT). Submit your assignment to the Dropbox. The assignment is worth 100 points. SELECT * FROM HSDISCU_Result WHERE name='D40400596' and section_id='CARD548_65545_20170226' The AMA DISC Survey™ Internet Edition Personalized Style(s) Analysis Booklet Name: D40400596 Date: Tuesday, February 28, 2017 The AMA DISC Survey is designed to measure and provide personal feedback on the ways that people approach their work and relate to others within their organizations. The following report provides a scoring of your responses. This reference booklet allows you to profile your results against those of others. In interpreting your results please keep in mind that none of the styles being measured are better or worse than the others. Each style has its strong points as well as possible weaknesses. More importantly, all the styles contribute to (or potentially detract from) the effective functioning of groups and organizations. AMERICAN MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION Copyright © 2000, Center for Applied Research, Inc. All Rights Reserved. The AMA DISC SurveyTM Style(s) Analysis Reports Table Of Contents Interpreting your DISC Styles ● ● ● ● ● Your Most Descriptive Style Your DISC Scores and Profile Your Combination of Styles Your Least Descriptive Style Other DISC Profiles Productive Aspects of your Styles Counter-Productive Aspects of your Styles Uncovering the Causes and Effects of your Styles ● ● DISC Styles Influences Report Aspects of your Styles Working with People with Different Styles AMERICAN MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION Copyright © 2000, Center for Applied Research, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Overview The AMA DISC Survey assesses your on-the-job behaviors in terms of four different styles: Directing Influencing Supportive Contemplative The first step in interpreting and understanding your DISC results is to familiarize yourself with Your Most Descriptive Style. This is the style that, according to your survey responses, is most likely to reflect the way you approach your work and interact with others on the job. After reading about your most descriptive style, you can move on to Your DISC Scores and Profile and review your results along all four styles. The DISC Profile presents your survey scores plotted against those of others, graphically portrays the relative strength of your tendencies along all four styles, and shows the underlying orientations (i.e., toward tasks versus people and acceptance versus change) which drive your personal styles. The third section focuses on Your Combination of Styles. The work-related behavior of most people is depicted best by considering one or more other styles in addition to their most descriptive styles. Thus, this section provides you with information on the other DISC styles which, as shown on your profile, might complement, work together with, or possibly compete with your dominant style. You can then learn about Your Least Descriptive Style, the style that shows the weakest extension on your profile. To fully understand how we "come across" to others, it often is helpful to consider the styles we tend not to exhibit. Therefore, you may find it helpful to read about the implications of low scores on the DISC style that is least characteristic of you. Finally, profiles of all the remaining DISC styles and combinations of styles are presented. Though these Other DISC Profiles are different than your own, they may be relevant to people with whom you interact-and would like to interact with more effectively. Some of these profiles show dominance of a single DISC style; others portray a combination of dual, multiple, or competing styles. Copyright © 2000 by Center for Applied Research, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Most Descriptive Style The style most descriptive of you is SUPPORTIVE. This style reflects ● ● An orientation toward People versus Tasks and An orientation toward Acceptance versus Change. This style, on the job, reflects behaviors and activities directed toward accepting and understanding the people around you. Other words—both positive and negative—that might be used to describe your Supportive style include: ● ● ● ● ● Sensitive Steady Sympathetic Submissive Subdued Supportive emerged as your primary DISC style because, on the survey, you indicated that the statements assessing this style were more descriptive of you than the statements associated with the other styles. More specifically, you were more likely than others to report on the survey that you... ● ● ● ● ...treat people with respect and kindness ...cooperate and help make the team work ...relate to others in a friendly, dependable manner ...provide others with support and encouragement Similarly, you also were more likely than others to report that you... ● ● ● ● ...place others' needs over your own desires ...avoid and smooth over conflicts with others ...over-commit to please others ...tend to "step aside" and let others get their way Copyright © 2000 by Center for Applied Research, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Your DISC Scores and Profile Your primary style is one of four styles measured by The AMA DISC Survey. The four styles are: ● ● ● ● Directing (oriented toward change and tasks) Influencing (oriented toward change and people) Supportive (oriented toward acceptance and people) Contemplative (oriented toward acceptance and tasks) Your results along all four styles are important for understanding how you approach your work and interact with others within your organization. Your DISC results are presented here in terms of percentile scores, beginning with the style most descriptive of you and ending with the least descriptive style. DISC Styles 1.Supportive 2.Directing 3. Contemplative 4.Influencing Percentiles 95 83 83 68 These percentile scores represent your results compared to those of others who recently completed the DISC Survey. For example, a percentile score of 75 means that you scored higher along a particular style than 75% of the other respondents in the sample-and, in turn, indicates that the style is strongly descriptive of you. In contrast, a score of 25 means that you scored higher than only about 25% of the other respondents and, therefore, would indicate that the style is not very descriptive of you. Your percentile scores are shown on the DISC Profile on the next page. Copyright © 2000 by Center for Applied Research, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Graphical Profile of Your DISC Style percentile scores Beyond showing your primary style, the DISC Profile also illustrates your overall pattern or combination of styles. The number of styles showing extensions, along with the direction of those extensions, provides insights into your orientations or behavioral tendencies. For example, ● ● ● ● Extensions toward the top of the profile reflect an orientation toward change; those toward the bottom reflect an orientation toward acceptance. Extensions toward the left side of the profile reflect an orientation toward tasks; those toward the right reflect an orientation toward people. Please continue on to the next section to learn more about your combination of styles. Copyright © 2000 by Center for Applied Research, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Your Combination of Styles Though Supportive is clearly the style that is most descriptive of you, your survey results indicate that you show tendencies along at least two other DISC styles. Furthermore, your scores along these two styles, Directing and Contemplative, do not differ significantly. Thus, your on-the-job behavior is likely to reflect a combined Directing/Contemplative style as well as the Supportive style. As your "secondary style," Directing/Contemplative is likely to work with and shape your Supportive style—on a regular basis and to a noticeable extent. Additionally, this combination of styles may be particularly likely to emerge when you: ● ● ● Find that your Supportive style is not working nor having the desired effect; Are working with different people or on a different task than usual; or Are under stress, overloaded, or dealing with conflict or ambiguity. Keep in mind, however, that the description provided is for people who are more Directing/Contemplative than your own results indicate. Copyright © 2000 by Center for Applied Research, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Your Least Descriptive Style A comprehensive analysis of your DISC profile requires consideration of not only the styles that are most descriptive of you but those that are the least descriptive as well. Sometimes the styles people do not exhibit are just as important in defining their overall "persona" as the styles they do exhibit. As noted above, the style that is least descriptive of you is Influencing. Your lowest percentile score is for this style, indicating that you viewed the statements associated with this style as the least relevant to your on-thejob behavior. However, as shown on your profile, even the Influencing style is descriptive of you to a relatively great extent. Thus you are likely to approach your work and relate to others, at least some of the time, in a manner consistent with this style. Note that the description of the Influencing was written for people who scored high on this style relative not only to other respondents (i.e., high percentile score) but also to their own scores along the other three styles. Given that the latter is not the case for you, this description should characterize your behavior less frequently than the description of the Supportive style. Similarly, when you do behave in Influencing ways, this style may feel less comfortable or natural to you than the other DISC styles. Copyright © 2000 by Center for Applied Research, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Other DISC Style Patterns that are not representative of you: Single-Style Profiles Dual-Style Profiles Multiple-Style Profiles Competing-Style Profiles This Human Synergistics online training module is powered by Human Synergistics/Center for Applied Research, Inc. Copyright © 2000. All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, transcribed in any form or by any means, including, but not limited to electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or other means, without prior written permission from Human Synergistics/Center for Applied Research, Inc. Grading Rubric - Week 2 This attachment is an overview of the points given in each graded assignment. It is straightforward and will give you a guideline to achieve the maximum points allotted. Please use this to verify you have fulfilled each of the required areas. Please name files with your last name, first initial, and Week number, assignment type, such as “JonesG Week 3_Strategy_Part1.docx” and “JonesG_Week3_Strategy_Part2.xlsx” AMA DISC PERSONALITY WRITTEN REPORT – USE SUBHEADINGS Category Point Value Describe your personal styles (25 points) Describe your strongest style(s) and your weakest style. Provide examples to illustrate how the strong styles characterize you (or, in the case of your weakest style, do not characterize you). If your profile is balanced, describe either how the four styles equally characterize you or how your styles change depending on circumstances. Discuss how you developed your styles (25 points) 25 25 Consider the possible effects of family, school, organizational memberships, and/or culture on the development of your self-reported styles. Discuss the factor that you think was most important in shaping your personal styles. Assess the impact of your styles on your effectiveness (25 points) 25 Discuss the impact of your styles in terms of two factors--such as interpersonal relations, group activities, individual or managerial performance. . Identify a target for change and a specific change strategy (25 points) Focus on a single style and a concrete, behavioral strategy for change. Grammatical /Spelling errors Late Policy – See Below TOTAL VALUE POINTS 25 -1 100
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