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Your Personal DiSC Assessment: Braintenance – Douglas E. Castle

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Your Personal DiSC Assessment: Braintenance – Douglas E. Castle How will you work in a team setting? What probable role would you gravitate toward? Will you play well with others? DiSC is a personal assessment tool used to improve work productivity, teamwork and communication. DiSC is non-judgmental and helps people discuss their behavioral differences. If you participate in a DiSC program, you'll be asked to complete a series of questions that produce a detailed report about your personality and behavior. What does DiSC stand for? Dominance Person places emphasis on accomplishing results, the bottom line, confidence Influence Person places emphasis on influencing or persuading others, openness, relationships Steadiness Person places emphasis on cooperation, sincerity, dependability Conscientiousness Person places emphasis on quality and accuracy, expertise, competency Each of us can be placed (after having been tested) into one of the above categories. You'll get to test yours...

Guilt-Prone Individuals Versus Sociopaths

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C'mon. Click On The Image...It Might Be Your Lucky Day. It should be no surprise to you, my fellow (and lady) followers of The Braintenance Blog , that guilt - prone individuals tend to be the most honest in terms of their conduct in social and employment situations. Their level of advancement in the corporate or entrepreneurial enterprise world is generally at the median average or perhaps a bit higher. Sociopaths (those without any feelings of guilt, compunction or contrition and unencumbered by 'conscience) tend to advance more rapidly and to greater heights than do their more honorable counterparts. In fact, sociopaths generally are better at leadership roles than are others. There are a number of reasons for this centering around focus, non-distraction, leveraging of assets (Human and otherwise) and persistence despite resistance. An article about the behavior and performance of guilt-prone individuals was published recently in a BigThink IdeaFeed Newsletter. That ar...