DISC can apply to almost any area – how we behave – communication, motivation, job preferences and roles, stress, relationships,
Having this awareness allows us to plan and prepare on how to be more effective.
How we perceive Time is based on our own DISC Style. So far in this series on DISC Styles and Time, we’re reviewed the basics of how each DISC Style approaches Time. To review that blogpost, “How Does Each DISC Style Uniquely Look at Their Use of Time?”, just click here.
For the next four weeks, I want to take one DISC Style at a time and delve into more of their unique approach to Time. Let’s start with the D-Style.
The High D-Style person tends to:
- Like to be in control
- Focus on tasks more than on people
- Have a “high speed motor”
- Be decisive – sometimes without researching the facts
- Get things done quickly
- Be authoritative
- Take charge in a situation
D-Style and their approach to Time:
- Is an Active Style; a red Ferrari that goes 0-60 in 3 seconds
- Need to develop patience
- Important to slow down if they have lots to accomplish (very counter-intuitive for a D)
- Do at least a little planning
- Think of the steps they need to take
- Beware of being so eager to get started right away – can go in the wrong direction which wastes time
- Don’t just focus on end results; be concerned with how to get to that end result
- Be careful of having too much of a short-term perspective
- Can expect results to be accomplished sooner rather than later
- Can abandon the efforts of their project or their team too soon – “maybe this was a bad idea, maybe we did something wrong”, so quit and start something else
- Realize that others on the team who are not High D will be moving at a different speed and have a different perspective
- Allow ideas to develop; then can eventually achieve the desired results
[Thanks to Extended DISC for their insightful webinar on the DISC Styles and Time.]
QUESTION: Can you identify with this D-Style approach to Time? Or have you seen it in action from others? I’d love to hear your thoughts and observations. Please share in the comment section below.
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