Business Coaching: Do you feel like a square peg in a round hole?

Posted by Editor on March 23, 2011 under Business Coaching | Be the First to Comment

One of the first steps in effective business advice is knowing how you as an owner and your team work and learn.

Knowing how and where people work best can be a powerful and lucrative tool for business owners with a team of people.

Personality profiling is not a new tool by any means, but still one of the best ways and most effective ways to ensure you are able to achieve a close-to-perfect match when selecting new employees and repositioning existing personnel.

At ActionCOACH, we use DISC and VAK to help make decisions about team members and where best to place them. It also helps the team gain a better understanding on how to communicate with each other.

Knowing someone’s personal profile allows for a much better understanding of how the person learns and operates.

DISC
DISC uses the Style Analysis Instrument and was initially designed to assist people achieve a higher degree of success in life and work. Successful people know their strengths and limitations and by realizing their weaknesses, are able to overcome their shortcomings and take full advantage of their strengths.

DISC uncovers insights about four dimensions of normal behavior.

A brief description of the four behaviors is listed below:

“D” Style                     “I” Style        “S” Style            “C” Style 
Adventuresome      Charming       Amiable           Accurate 
Competitive              Confident       Friendly          Analytical
Daring                          Convincing   Good Listener  Conscientious
Decisive                      Enthusiastic  Patient               Diplomatic
Direct                           Inspiring        Self-starter       Trusting 
Innovative                 Optimistic     Relaxed              Fact-Finder
Persistent                    Persuasive    Sincere               High Standards
Problem-Solver        Popular         Stable                  Mature
Results-Orientated  Sociable        Steady                  Patient

By recognizing your peers and behavioral styles and adapting to them, you’ll increase your understanding, appreciation, and communication with them leading to relationships that are more productive.

VAK
At ActionCOACH, we also use the “Language System Diagnostic Instrument” (LSDI) to analyze a person’s communication and behavior patterns and for determining how to interact with that person in the process of change.

The result of the questionnaire is a clear understanding of where you fit and how we make distinctions concerning our environment.

Both internal and external are represented in terms of three sensory systems: visual, auditory, and kinesthetic.

People who rely on their visual systems appear to run movies in their heads when remembering or storing information.

If people are primarily auditory, i.e. taking information through sounds, remembering may be like replaying a tape recorder, with original tones and dialogue. People who are primarily kinesthetic respond to internal bodily feeling or tactile sense.

They remember bodily sensations in recalling experiences.

This knowledge provides an amazing insight into the people we work with or for; however, we must be cautious not to “box” people or become complacent about ourselves because we are not naturally suited to a particular task.

For more information on DISC and VAK, or business coaching, contact an ActionCOACH near you today.