How the High S-Style can Improve Their Time Management

I have thoroughly enjoyed putting these blogposts together that focus on DISC Styles and Time. If you missed any or want to find them again, just click here.

For the next two blogposts in this series, I want to continue to concentrate on the ways each DISC Style can improve their Time Management. I believe this is a goal for most of us. Let’s take the High S-Style person today.

As a quick review, the High S-Style’s tendencies are:

• Dependable
• Steady
• Persistent
• Extremely patient
• Cooperative – a great Team Player
• Focuses on people
• Often has a slower “motor” – walks slower, talks slower, thinks slower

Not surprisingly, then, the S-Style’s Approach to Time includes:

• A more long-term perspective
• The desire to make a plan, then how to best implement that plan
• The tendency to think about the plan too much before actually starting
• The freight train that takes longer to get started, but once they build up speed, are unstoppable.
• A tendency to overestimate the amount of work something will take, then they get overwhelmed, which can slow them down and even paralyze their efforts
• Prefers the Team Approach to deal with time and assignments

So, for the S-Style to Improve their use of Time:

• They especially need to make a plan and know how best to implement that plan
• Be careful of over-thinking the planning process
• It is important to get to the implementing phase
• They need to constantly remind themselves: “Just DO IT!”
• Get help or delegate when the work or process becomes overwhelming

I’m experiencing all this first-hand as we break ground this week on the house we are building in Kansas. There are many details and decisions to this process, and the High S in me wants to plan to infinity. But the time has come to take action on those plans.

I hope this Review and these Suggestions have also given you some practical insights and help, whether you are the High S-Style or live or work with one.

[Thanks to Extended DISC for their insightful webinar on the DISC Styles and Time.]

QUESTION: Did you get any new understanding of how a High S-Style can improve their Time Management?  I’d love to hear your thoughts and observations. Please share in the comment section below.