Welcome to the Pursue You Podcast, where we are empowering you to continually reflect, design and pursue who you were created to be so you can give the gift of your best self to your family, community, and business!
Today I welcome Jay Niblick, the co-founder and CEO of WizeHire and an expert on the DISC profile. In times like these, it is more important than ever to understand one another and how we best interact with those around us. Jay shares his knowledge of the DISC and how we use it to thrive in times of stress.
William Moulton Marston created the foundational theories behind DISC behavioral analysis. The D is how we attack problems- slow and deliberate or quick and impulsive. Neither are right or wrong out of context. I describes people. It is the extrovert/introvert scale. S is pace - how fast or slow do I want to go? C is procedures. How detail-oriented are you? Not understanding one another is the number one cause of interpersonal conflict. Jay suggests taking the assessment to begin the journey of learning about yourself.
Mandy explains how any solid team needs a variety of personalities. Jay explains how, on a team, it is important to hire people that are good at what you are not. That makes a well-rounded team. However, sometimes these people have different personalities, so it is hard to connect initially. You may initially feel like you want to hire someone who is just like you, because you get along so well. But they also have the same weaknesses, so it is not beneficial to the team.
[12:39] I ask Jay how your personality affects how you show up in a time of crisis. During a large-scale study, he learned that the people that handled themselves in times of hardship and performed better had 2 primary things: self-awareness and the ability to adapt. Self-awareness is knowing your strengths and weaknesses and knowing them well. In crisis mode, problems show up on a team that didn’t use to exist because their ability to adapt is not strong enough.
Jay notes how this is all subconscious. Like breathing, you don’t think about your behaviors, until you focus on them. People will always migrate back to their natural tendencies. He emphasizes how everyone is different. Everyone on the team sees the goal at hand from a different angle. Not everyone is fully informed, but when all the team’s perspectives are put together, the group’s vision strengthens.
[35:30] The most important thing a leader can do for his or her team: Understand them and know them better. We interpret others behaviors through our own emotional filter. In other words, if we cannot understand another person’s behavior, we might try to think what emotion I might need to have in order to behave that similar way. Understanding what drives a teammates’ behaviors better helps us appreciate those around us better and understand why they do what they do.
[39:16] I emphasize how a certain personality does not fare better than another personality in times of crisis. We all just tackle it differently.
[42:15] Jay suggested reading “The Animal School,” a short story every leader should take a look at. The concept or objective of the book is that there are many ways to accomplish a goal, but it might look different for each of us.
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