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DiSC Type "I"

The Motivator

Name: Alex
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About Your DiSC Styles: Everyone has both a Natural style (how you instinctively behave) and an Adapted style (how you adjust to fit work, expectations, or stress). Compare your two profiles to understand your core tendencies and how you may adapt in different environments.

Natural Style

Adapted Style

Your Natural Style: I

i — The Motivator

Summary

People with the DISC I personality style (The Motivator) are enthusiastic, cheerful, and outgoing. They have a relaxed, casual manner, enjoy building new relationships, and thrive on regular interactions with others.

Overview

With a position on the top right of the DISC map, Motivators are open, approachable, and frequently involved with other people. They find ways to include social interaction in their daily activities, seeking connection and engagement even outside formal settings.

Traits

  • Enjoy each interaction with others.
  • Notice people quickly and help them feel comfortable in new groups.
  • Easily build rapport, even after just meeting someone.
  • Entertain others at a party.
  • Enjoy the challenge of connecting with everyone.

Strengths

  • Prioritizing relationships and personal interactions.
  • Facilitating group brainstorming to solve problems.
  • Offering lots of verbal encouragement when developing others.
  • Communicating in a spontaneous, emotionally-expressive manner.
  • Quickly improvising based on intuition.
  • Using flexible schedules and open-ended time management.
  • Understanding how to motivate others to act.
  • Bringing energy and a sense of fun to a team.

Weaknesses

  • Being overly optimistic about people or situations.
  • Spending more time interacting than completing tasks.
  • Having trouble following consistent, predictable routines.
  • Struggling to limit time spent with people.
  • Trusting gut feelings when more planning is needed.
  • Providing insufficient structure for those needing a defined approach.
  • Getting distracted by multiple new ideas and failing to focus.
  • Avoiding decisions that may result in lost approval or looking bad.

Growth Opportunities

  • Plan projects by making lists, prioritizing, and focusing on one or two ideas at a time.
  • Consider details involved in bringing ideas to fruition.
  • Make a plan before pursuing ideas full-force, especially if others are involved.
  • Practice patience by empathizing, taking breaks, and writing out instructions when frustrated.

Work Environment

  • Motivators thrive in environments where they can use their verbal skills to communicate vision and persuade others.
  • They help more stubborn or fact-focused colleagues find new solutions.
  • When working with other I-types, accountability is important to balance socializing and productivity.

Works Well With

  • Quickly build personal connections.
  • Offer creative, exciting ideas.
  • Participate in group events outside of work.

Obstacles

  • Miss the deadline on important projects.
  • Fail to think through decisions that impact the group.
  • Use humor to deflect from serious situations.

Motivations

  • They are asked to pursue a new opportunity for the group.
  • Their boss is open-minded and accepting of ideas.
  • Peers make an effort to get to know them.
  • Direct reports are creative and inspiring.
  • Frequently interacting with a diverse group.
  • Participating in group discussions and brainstorming.
  • Encouraging others and sharing stories.
  • Going on new adventures and pursuing abstract opportunities.
  • Considering how someone else thinks.
  • Bouncing between multiple ideas at once.
  • Leaving schedule open for spontaneous meetings.
  • Figuring things out on their feet.
  • Explaining things with emotional, expressive language.

Draining Activities

  • Need to spend a lot of time in isolation.
  • Boss pushes them to be thorough and careful.
  • Peers exclude them from events.
  • Direct reports request formal scheduling.
  • Solving problems with thorough data analysis.
  • Spending lots of time researching root causes.
  • Creating procedures, rules, and guidelines.
  • Clarifying facts by asking specific questions.
  • Taking time to think through problems before deciding.
  • Using writing as primary communication.
  • Working independently and bringing results to a group.
  • Inspecting and maintaining high-quality results.

Communication

  • Project a casual tone, use humor and anecdotes, and describe past events with colorful language.

Meetings

  • Meetings should be in person when possible, without a rigid agenda.

Emailing

  • Emails should be friendly, casual, and personal. Include a call-to-action for immediate response.

Feedback

  • Feedback should be focused on the high level and delivered with encouragement.

Conflict

  • Conflicts should be addressed in a balanced, intentional way to avoid unnecessary arguing.
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