DISC Behavioral Style Analysis

The consultants at The Rankin Group, Ltd. have learned over the years that one of the critical factors to the success of any internal or external search is the ability to determine whether an individual's personal style and values will fit the job and organizational culture of their employer.

The DISC profiling system has become a valuable tool in our search and consulting practice. It helps to profile the client's culture and expectations of top performers. It helps identify complementary styles for effective team building. And, it helps support improved performance of employees.

We use this system in most assignments to give clients better insight into their own organizations, and to help candidates make better decisions about their fit in their job and the organization. Following is a brief description of DISC.

DISC is the universal language of observable human behavior. Just watching people proves its validity. Scientific research has proven that people, in terms of "how they act, their behavior," universally have similar characteristics. By learning these

characteristics, we can increase communication; therefore, increasing our understanding of each other. We can also determine how they will fit into specific cultures and interact with others on their team, as well as how they will approach their job. The DISC program focuses on how people with similar styles tend to exhibit specific types of behavior common to that style. A person's behavior is a necessary and integral part of who they are. In other words, much of our behavior comes from "nature" (inherent), and much comes from "nurture" (our upbringing). The DISC model merely analyzes behavioral style and the attitudes and values that motivate each individual with that style.

The Style Analysis form and its various uses are all derived from the work of Dr. William Moulton Marston, who is best known for developing the Lie Detector. Dr. Marston was educated at Harvard University, receiving an A.B, LL.B, and PhD degrees. After his death in 1947, another psychologist, Walter Clarke, took Marston's theory and built a psychological device around it, which lead to the development of the DISC profiling system, as we know it today.

Download a printer friendly version on our Family Office Client Information HERE
(Adobe Acrobat PDF format)

For clients who have been instructed to complete the DISC questionnaire, click on the Work Environment analysis button to the left. You will be able to access the questionnaire as we discussed. You will be asked for the response link which was provided to you.

DISC profiling is now available to individuals and companies as a separate service. For more information, click on the button to the left.

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