Using Assessments in Your Business

While it is true for specific assessments to identify certain traits possessed by individuals, one assessment does NOT supply you will all the information about an individuals strengths and weaknesses. So beware of over generalization when you are using only one assessment report – like a DISC report.

While a DISC report will give you critical information about an individual regarding “How” a person goes about doing things in their life, these traits can be somewhat over-ridden by strong traits found in other reports.

A case in point, recently I was working with a person who had a DISC report reflecting a very high D on both the Graph I and Graph II sections for their report. However, the individual denied being a high D person and disputed all the identified traits within their report. The interesting thing about this action was relative to the four separate assessments and corresponding reports contained within the one report. (more…)