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A Breakdown of DISC Personality Types

The DISCpersonality theoryis a behavior model that divides a person’s characteristics into four “types” to understand why they do what they do. There are explanations for each individual type, but keep in mind they can be combined in groups of two as well. So, some people may be an influence (I) type, while others may be an influence-dominance (ID) type or an influence-steadiness (IS) type.

Most people fall into one or two combinations. There are 12 commonly recognized personality types, but dominance, influence, steadiness, and conscientiousness are the starting points for all the personality types.

Dominance Personality Type

Influence Personality Type

Steadiness Personality Type

Conscientiousness Personality Type

How the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Works

Process for Identifying and Assessing DISC Personality Types

Paper andonline assessmentswill tell you your DISC personality type and those of others. These can be used in professional and personal settings.

If you don’t know a person’s DISC type, you can also use the OAR — observe, assess, recognize — model to assess their personality. You would do that like this:

While this informal OAR method is not as accurate as a formal DISC assessment, it can be a helpful baseline.

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Tips for Dealing With Each DISC Personality Type

Knowing someone’s DISC personality type will give you an idea of how they operate in personal and professional settings. For example, Hansen observes that if he were working with someone who’s either a conscientiousness or steadiness type, he would “have a discussion with [them] and go ‘OK, now let’s look at it from both ways and let’s see what we come up with,’ because that’s how they operate. With a dominant person [on the other hand] sometimes…. you would be a little more directive.”

Here are some additional tips for dealing with each personality type.

Dealing With Dominance Types

Dealing With Influence Types

Dealing With Steadiness Types

Dealing With Conscientiousness Types

4 SourcesVerywell Mind uses only high-quality sources, including peer-reviewed studies, to support the facts within our articles. Read oureditorial processto learn more about how we fact-check and keep our content accurate, reliable, and trustworthy.Herrity J. The 4 DISC Personality Type (Plus 12 Styles with Careers). Indeed Career Guide. March 10, 2023.Hartanto AD, Utami E, Adi S, Hudnanto HS. Job seeker profile classification of twitter data using the naïve bayes classifier algorithm based on the disc method. In:2019 4th International Conference on Information Technology, Information Systems and Electrical Engineering (ICITISEE). IEEE; 2019:533-536.Evolved Metrics.How to Identify DISC Personality Types.HR Profiling Solutions.DISC Communication Styles.

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Verywell Mind uses only high-quality sources, including peer-reviewed studies, to support the facts within our articles. Read oureditorial processto learn more about how we fact-check and keep our content accurate, reliable, and trustworthy.Herrity J. The 4 DISC Personality Type (Plus 12 Styles with Careers). Indeed Career Guide. March 10, 2023.Hartanto AD, Utami E, Adi S, Hudnanto HS. Job seeker profile classification of twitter data using the naïve bayes classifier algorithm based on the disc method. In:2019 4th International Conference on Information Technology, Information Systems and Electrical Engineering (ICITISEE). IEEE; 2019:533-536.Evolved Metrics.How to Identify DISC Personality Types.HR Profiling Solutions.DISC Communication Styles.

Verywell Mind uses only high-quality sources, including peer-reviewed studies, to support the facts within our articles. Read oureditorial processto learn more about how we fact-check and keep our content accurate, reliable, and trustworthy.

Herrity J. The 4 DISC Personality Type (Plus 12 Styles with Careers). Indeed Career Guide. March 10, 2023.Hartanto AD, Utami E, Adi S, Hudnanto HS. Job seeker profile classification of twitter data using the naïve bayes classifier algorithm based on the disc method. In:2019 4th International Conference on Information Technology, Information Systems and Electrical Engineering (ICITISEE). IEEE; 2019:533-536.Evolved Metrics.How to Identify DISC Personality Types.HR Profiling Solutions.DISC Communication Styles.

Herrity J. The 4 DISC Personality Type (Plus 12 Styles with Careers). Indeed Career Guide. March 10, 2023.

Hartanto AD, Utami E, Adi S, Hudnanto HS. Job seeker profile classification of twitter data using the naïve bayes classifier algorithm based on the disc method. In:2019 4th International Conference on Information Technology, Information Systems and Electrical Engineering (ICITISEE). IEEE; 2019:533-536.

Evolved Metrics.How to Identify DISC Personality Types.

HR Profiling Solutions.DISC Communication Styles.

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