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DISC Model FAQ's: Is Changing Your Behavior Phoney?

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DISC Model FAQ’s: Is Changing Your Behavior Phoney? We often change our behaviors for different environments. Different environments call for different behaviors. Rather, I see it as working to create a better environment for the other person. This article is from the DISC FAQs series.

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DISC Model FAQ's: Can Your Personality Style Change Over Time.

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DISC Model FAQ’s: Can Your Personality Style Change Over Time May 4, 2010 by Guy Harris Filed under DISC Model , Video 3 Comments Guy Answers the Question: Can Your Personality Style Change Over Time? I have spoken with thousands of people in various environments and done lots of reading on the topic.

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DISC Model FAQ's: Can I Have One DISC Style at Work and Another.

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DISC Model FAQ’s: Can I Have One DISC Style at Work and Another DISC Style at Home? When I hear this question or some variation of it, at least two things immediately come to my mind: Different environments call for different behaviors. So, you tend to adjust your behaviors to your environment.

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Using the DISC Model: How to Create Stress for Other People | Guy.

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Related posts: Effective Communication Skills: How to Quickly Guess a Person’s DISC Style DISC Model FAQ’s: Is Changing Your Behavior Phoney? This post is totally tongue-in-cheek. Hopefully, you see that I advocate doing exactly the opposite of what I have written here.) Get updates in an RSS reader.

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Hear and Understand to be Heard and Understood

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The sealed container has pressure in it greater than the pressure exerted on it by the environment. Related posts: DISC Model FAQ’s: Is Changing Your Behavior Phoney? It could be a pressure cooker on the stove or a carbonated beverage bottle on a warm day. They both demonstrate my point. Photo credit: [link] / CC BY 2.0

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Using the DISC Model: Focus on Needs More than Behaviors

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When you work to understand these needs and to see other people’s behaviors through the filter of their needs rather than your own, you can make the adjustments to your communication style that allows you to meet — or at least not challenge — another person’s needs so that you can create an environment for mutual gain.

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I Need Your Help – What Would You Like to Know About the DISC Model?

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Related posts: DISC Model FAQ’s: Is Changing Your Behavior Phoney? A DISC Model Question You Should Ask of Yourself Using the DISC Model: How to Create Stress for Other People DISC Model FAQ’s: Could I Have More Than One DISC Behavior Style? Reply What Do You Think? Tell me what youre thinking. Click here to cancel reply.

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