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How Does a People-Focused High S-Style Person Prefer to Communicate?

2025-10-13T12:25:24-06:00 October 14th, 2025|Categories: DISC Basics, DISC and Communication|Tags: , , |

One of my favorite things to do when I’m riding in a taxi (or Lyft or Uber) is to ask a few simple questions of my driver and see if they will go on to tell me their life story. I’ve heard some amazing histories and met some fascinating people from all over the world this [...]

How Does a Fun and People-focused High I-Style Person Prefer to Communicate?

2025-10-06T12:54:37-06:00 October 7th, 2025|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. To read it, click here. 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 [...]

How a High D-Style Person Prefers to Communicate

2025-09-29T09:50:45-06:00 September 30th, 2025|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 [...]

A Key to Better Communication: Are You a Direct Teller or a Persuasive Seller?

2025-09-22T10:22:01-06:00 September 23rd, 2025|Categories: DISC Basics, DISC and Communication|Tags: , |

Picture this: you’re in a meeting with your coworkers. The goal is to come up with ways to attract new patients. One person strongly states, “Listen! We’ve got to have more carrots to entice them to come in!” Another responds, “Perhaps if we up’d our FaceBook time and built strong relationships with our current patients, then [...]

The Best Ways a High C-Style Person Can Do Self-Renewal

2025-09-02T09:37:45-06:00 September 2nd, 2025|Categories: DISC and Self-Renewal, DISC Basics|Tags: , |

Most of us, at any age, are involved in daily activities that require lots of people interaction - whether it is in an office, school, job, activities, etc. For some of us, this is inspiring and renewing. But for the High C-Style person, this can be extremely draining. As a reminder, the C-Style person tends to [...]

The Best Ways a High S-Style Person Can Do Self-Renewal

2025-08-25T09:37:55-06:00 August 26th, 2025|Categories: DISC and Self-Renewal, DISC Basics|Tags: , |

As you may tend to do, I have a propensity to push myself, enjoy activities with family and friends, then try to get that one more item done on my ever-present To Do List... and keep going... and keep going... until I crash. One of my goals as a High S-Style person is to do a [...]