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With Laughter – How a High I-Style Person Wants Others to Communicate with Them

2024-08-26T09:56:48-06:00 August 27th, 2024|Categories: DISC Basics, DISC and Communication|Tags: , , |

As we go through this life of ours, I hope it is important to you to communicate well with others – to hear their thoughts and ideas and share yours as well. Then to understand each other. These blogposts on how each DISC Style prefers to communicate are meant to be a key to those goals. [...]

Be Direct – How a High D-Style Prefers Others Communicate with Them

2024-08-19T09:35:17-06:00 August 20th, 2024|Categories: DISC Basics, DISC and Communication|Tags: , |

For the last couple months, we talked about how each DISC Style prefers to communicate. Please see the blogposts on my website, www.idealpersonideealplace.com/blog from 7/2/24 to 8/13/24 if you want a refresher. For the next month or so, we will look the other side of that communication coin: How does each DISC Style want others to [...]

How Does a Detail-Loving High C Person Prefer to Communicate?

2024-08-12T09:54:08-06:00 August 13th, 2024|Categories: DISC Basics, DISC and Communication|Tags: , |

As I write this, we are in the framing stage of building a new house 565 miles from where we currently live. Talk about details and challenges! Many years ago, we built a facility - our home and our orthodontic office in one building. As you can imagine, the details and decisions were relentless. We had [...]

How Does the Patient, People-Focused High S-Style Prefer to Communicate?

2024-08-05T09:55:55-06:00 August 6th, 2024|Categories: Office Staffing, DISC Basics, DISC and Communication|Tags: , , |

The High S-Style is usually a person you can sit and talk with for hours - comfortable, friendly, usually a great listener, and seems to know the right questions to ask to draw out a good conversation. The S-Style is one of my highest-ranking styles. So it’s not surprising that one of my favorite things to [...]

Can Understanding the I-Style’s Communication Save a Friendship, a Staff, Even a Marriage?

2024-07-08T11:21:42-06:00 July 9th, 2024|Categories: DISC Basics, DISC and Communication|Tags: , |

In last week’s blogpost, we talked about how a High D prefers to communicate - dealing directly, frankly, no-nonsense, focused on the task at hand. This week, our subject is the High I’s ideal way to communicate, which is vastly different, as you’ll see below. Since High I’s make up about a third of the population, [...]

Clear Guidelines for How a High D-Style Person Prefers to Communicate

2024-07-04T15:00:41-06:00 July 2nd, 2024|Categories: DISC Basics, DISC and Communication|Tags: , |

A few years ago, I overheard a conversation that went like this: “But I only want to say it once! Can’t you get it if I just say it once?!” to which the partner in the conversation clearly answered, “NO! I can’t get it if you just fire through it once. I still don’t understand!” As [...]