Category:Disc Classic Profile

DiSC Classic™, Personal Profile System 2800 Series (A plan to understand yourself and others) is the original DiSC Profile analysis survey assessment paper version by Inscape Publishing, formally Carlson Learning Company. This disc assessment utilizes the D.I.S.C. model to explore dimensions of behavior and personality. The DISC inventory is also referred to as the disc personality profiler, "disc survey" or "disc analysis", disc behavioral personality test, personality profile, or personality analysis. View DiSC Classic Brochure DiSC Classic Profile: Dimensions of Behavior.

DiSC Classic Profile is a behavioral personality assessment. DiSC is derived from the work of William Moulton Marston, the developer of the D.I.S.C. Model. Marston's model examined the behavior of "normal" people and how their behavioral preferences are affected by their personality and the environment or situation they find themselves in. This four quadrant behavioral personality profile test provides a understanding of people through awareness of temperament and behavioral styles. Personal and professional success requires understanding people's model of the world. Research indicates the insight achieved through the understanding of one's personal behavior on themselves and others. For almost 41 years, the knowledge provided by the DiSC Classic Profile and Personal Profile System 2800 Series® has been used to develop and enhance productive communication, rapport, and relationships for almost 50 million people internationally, through its "Dimensions of Behavior" learning approach*.

The DiSC Profile is a learning instrument designed to helps people realize to what degree they utilize each behavior style bases on their personality and the situation they find themselves in. DiSC provides feedback designed to help people and organizations build productive teams and development effective management and leadership. It is also used to create powerful sales forces using rapid rapport development and insights into selling styles and buying styles. What is the DISC Model?

The DISC Survey model is often used to develop organizational, business and employee competences in the areas of: Communication skills/Conflict management Leadership /Management Productivity Teamwork / Team Building Customer Relations / Sales Change / Transition Diversity Training Managing / Coaching / Mentoring Understanding Stress

What Is the DISC Profile

DISC is the four quadrant behavioral model based on the work of William Moulton Marston Ph.D. (1893 - 1947) to examine the behavior of individuals in their environment or within a specific situation. DISC looks at behavioral styles and behavioral preferences. Marston, the father of the DISC, was a graduate of Harvard University. Among his contributions in his profession Marston was a consulting psychologist, researcher and author of five books, which he either wrote or co-authored. He was published in the American Journal of Psychology, The Encyclopedia of Psychology, and The Encyclopedia Britannica.

It was Marston’s 1928 “Emotions of Normal People”, which introduced DISC theory to the public. He defined four categories of human behavioral styles, types or temperament, now know as "D" for Dominance-Drive-Direct, "I" for Influence (Marston chose the term inducement, "S" for Steadiness or Stability (Marston used submission) and "C" for Compliant, Conscientious, or Cautious, (Marston used compliance). Interestingly enough Marston never developed his D.I.S.C. theory into the present four quadrant model, yet now a days DISC has become one of the most popular and user friendly four quadrant models for understanding behavioral styles and personality types, with various companies offering models with quadrants, circles, wheels, and diamonds to graphically represent the positioning of these behavioral and personality styles and types.

For just about 42 years DISC has continued to evolve. From Marston's original development of the D.I.S.C. model; to the research conducted by the University of Minnesota's Dr. John Geier's and his creation or the first DISC personality instrument offered through Performax Systems Int'l, which later becoming Carlson Learning Company, who offered the DiSC® Personal Profile System™ and is now Inscape Publishing with the latest incarnation of the original disc profile, called the DiSC Classic™ Profile the continuous development and validation of the DiSC profile remains foremost.

Marston, even though he developed the D.I.S.C. model and created the DISC test or assessment to prove his theory of the emotions of people within their environment, he never copyrighted his disc profile test. Yet, today, 75 years after the publication of his work, over 5 million people have taken various forms of the DISC profile internationally. Marston’s original contributions continue to be enhanced by ongoing behavioral research and validation in more than 50 languages and by numerous publishers of the profile, creating numerous versions of the DISC of various quantity and validity. There are numerous people and companies trying to capitalize on the DISC and Marston's original work. At times this pursuit has brought out the best in people, their personalities and behavioral styles and at other times it has brought out the worst in people's behavioral and personality, as they all try to benefit in one way or another from the DISC model and Marston's original work, clearly showing the emotions of "normal" people. Yet the importance and impact of his contribution in identifying a clear and easy to understand model of four distinctive behavioral types and the ability to reliably measurement the intensity of each style in order to explain “normal” human behavior has remained undiminished and continues to be used in corporations, educational institutions, government agencies, and religious institutions as a way to develop and improve the understand of ourselves and others, remaining key to productive interpersonal interactions.

John C Goodman, MSOD, MSW

President-Center for Internal Change, Inc.