MBTI - Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®

The MBTI instrument provides an accurate picture of a person's personality type and determines preferences on four bi-polar dimensions:

Extraversion-Introversion: describes where people prefer to focus their attention and get their energy-from the outer world of people and activity or their inner world of ideas and experiences
Sensing-Intuition: describes how people prefer to take in information-focused on what is real and actual or on patterns and meanings in data
Thinking-Feeling: describes how people prefer to make decisions-based on logical analysis or guided by concern for their impact on others
Judging-Perceiving: describes how people prefer to deal with the outer world-in a planned orderly way, or in a flexible spontaneous way

Combinations of these preferences result in 16 distinct personality types. Understanding the characteristics of each type, provides insight on how they influence a person's way of communicating and interacting with others.

The MBTI can be used in a large number of ways, including:

Executive development
Leadership and coaching
Organizational development
Team development
Career management
Conflict resolution
Retention Culture and diversity
Working relationships

DiSC®

DiSC is the universal language of observable human behavior. Its validity is proven just by watching people. Scientific research has proven that people, in terms of "how they act," have similar characteristics.

Some people are forceful, direct, results-oriented
Some people are optimistic, fun, talkative
Some people are steady, patient, relaxed
Some people are precise, accurate, detail-oriented

These behavioral characteristics can be grouped together into four quadrants, or styles. People with similar styles tend to exhibit specific types of behavior common to that style, a person's manner of doing things.

D Dominance - Challenge: how you respond to problems and challenges
I Influence - Contacts: how you influence others to your point of view
S Steadiness - Consistency: how you respond to the pace of the environment
C Compliance Constraints: how you respond to rules and procedures set by others

DiSC can be used to provide a common language for people in an organization. Some benefits include:

Gaining commitment and cooperation (trust)
Building effective teams (high performance)
Resolving and preventing conflict (diffuse problems before they happen)
Gain endorsement (credibility)