Monday, February 3, 2014

Getting to Know Yourself

To improve yourself it's crucial that you know yourself. You get much better results if you know what you want to improve and why. One area I've been reading about lately is personality styles and how they impact your communication and co-operation with others. It's fairly important that you don't deliver your message the same way to everyone in your family or at your work. We are all different and not understanding the differences in personality can lead to a unnecessary conflicts.

One way to test what personality style you are is to do a DISC personality test. DISC divides personality to four different areas, Dominance, Influence, Steadiness and Compliance. Combinations and weights in these different categories give you a hint of what kind of personality style you have.

I did a free online DISC test at 123 Test and here are the results. Not far away from what I imagined before I took the test. You too can try it out and take a look into your personality. I might reveal some new sides of yourself.




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2 comments:

  1. Anonymous4/2/14 13:20

    Very different profile from mine... It's quite an interesting test to take, but for me as well, it looks pretty much the way I expected it would.

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  2. Jani Rutanen4/2/14 22:11

    Often it's probably more useful to know other peoples personality style than your own. If the personality style is known it's easier to give the counterpart the information and attention she/he needs based on her personality style. If I need to instruct a colleague who need details (C type) and don't give the details he would think that I'm a lousy instructor. Style D person would hate to get too many details. So it's worth thinking about when teaching or interacting with others.

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