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Dexter Allen Roldan
November 28, 2022
This Innermetrix Disc Index was authored by Jay Niblick, the Founder and CEO of
Innermetrix. It is a modern interpretation of Dr. William Marston's behavioral dimensions.
Marston's research uncovered four quadrants of behavior which help to understand a
person's behavioral preferences. This Disc Index will help you understand your behavioral
style and how to maximize your potential.
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The DISC Index Executive Summary
Natural and Adaptive Styles Comparison
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Natural Style: The natural style is how you behave Adaptive Style:
when you are being most natural. It is your basic The adaptive style is how you behave when you feel
style and the one you adopt when you are being you are being observed or how you behave when
authentic and true to yourself. It is also the style you are aware of your behavior. This style is less
that you revert to when under stress or pressure. natural and less authentic for you or your true
Behaving in this style, however, reduces your stress tendencies and preferences. When forced to adapt
and tension and is comforting. When authentic to to this style for too long you may become stressed
this style you will maximize your true potential and less effective.
more effectively.
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The DISC Index Introduction
About This Report
Research conducted by Innermetrix shows that the most successful people share the common trait of
self-awareness. They recognize the situations that will make them successful, and this makes it easy for
them to find ways of achieving objectives that fit their behavioral style. They also understand their
limitations and where they are not effective and this helps them understand where not to go or how not
to be as well. Those who understand their natural behavioral preferences are far more likely to pursue
the right opportunities, in the right way, at the right time, and get the results they desire.
This report measures four dimensions of your behavioral style. They are:
• Decisive — your preference for problem solving and getting results
• Interactive — your preference for interacting with others and showing emotion
• Stability — your preference for pacing, persistence and steadiness
• Cautious — your preference for procedures, standards and protocols
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This report includes:
• The Elements of DISC — Educational background behind the profile, the science and the four
dimensions of behavior
• The DISC Dimensions — A closer look at each of your four behavioral dimensions
• Style Summary — A comparison of your natural and adaptive behavioral styles
• Behavioral Strengths — A detailed strengths-based description of your overall behavioral style
• Communication — Tips on how you like to communicate and be communicated with
• Ideal Job Climate — Your ideal work environment
• Effectiveness — Insights into how you can be more effective by understanding your behavior
• Behavioral Motivations — Ways to ensure your environment is motivational
• Continual Improvement — Areas where you can focus on improving
• Training & Learning Style — Your preferred means of sharing and receiving styles
• Relevance Section — Making the information real and pertinent to you
• Success Connection — Connecting your style to your own life

The DISC Index Four Components of Behavior
The Elements of the DISC-Index
This DISC-Index report is unique in the marketplace for a number of reasons. You just completed the
first ever click & drag DISC instrument on the market. This was constructed in a precise manner to allow
for ease of responses, even in the midst of many difficult decisions. This intuitive interface allows you to
focus on your answers, not the process.
Also, unlike other DISC instruments, this instrument allows you to rank all four items instead. As a result,
this instrument produces zero waste in responses. Some instruments ask you to choose two items out
of four, and leave two items blank. Those instruments have a 50% waste of terms, and do not provide
for an efficient response process. The DISC Index instrument eliminates that response problem.
Another unique aspect of this DISC-Index report is that we present the DISC aspects of your behavior
both as separate entities and as a dynamic combination of traits. This report presents the first time that
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each of the DISC elements are separated and developed as pure entities of themselves. This can serve
as an important learning tool as you explore the deeper aspects of DISC. Your unique pattern of DISC
traits is developed through the context of this report. Additionally, the following four pages will be
devoted to exploring your DISC scores as separate components within the unique combination of traits
that you exhibit.
A comment on contradictions: You may read some areas of this report that may contradict other text.
This is due to the fact that many of us show contradictory behaviors in the normal course of our daily
operations. Each of us are at times talkative and other times more reflective, depending on how we are
adapting our behavior. The expression of these contradictions is a demonstration of the sensitivity of
this instrument to determine these subtle differences in our natural and adaptive style.

A closer look at the four components of your behavioral style
Decisive Interactive Stabilizing Cautious
Problems: People: Pace: Procedures:
How you tend to How you tend to interact How you tend to pace Your preference for
approach problems and with others and share things in your established protocol/
make decisions opinions environment standards
High D High I High S High C
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Demanding Gregarious Patient Cautious
Driving Persuasive Predictable Perfectionist
Forceful Inspiring Passive Systematic
Daring Enthusiastic Complacent Careful
Determined Sociable Stable Analytical
Competitive Poised Consistent Orderly
Responsible Charming Steady Neat
Inquisitive Convincing Outgoing Balanced
Conservative Reflective Restless Independent
Mild Matter-of-fact Active Rebellious
Agreeable Reserved Chaotic Careless
Deliberate Introspective Spontaneous Challenging
Low D Low I Low S Low C

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Decisive
Your approach to problem-solving and obtaining results
The D in DISC represents Decisiveness. Your score on this scale, represented below, shows your location
on the D spectrum based on the pattern of your responses. A high score doesn't mean good, and a low
score doesn't mean bad, as this is a spectrum or continuum of behavioral traits. For example:
Higher D —
Tend to solve new problems very quickly and assertively. They take an active and direct approach to
obtaining results. The key here is new problems such as those that are unprecedented or haven't
happened before. There may also be an element of risk in taking the wrong approach or developing
an incorrect solution, but those with a High D score are willing to take those risks, even if they may be
incorrect.
Lower D —
Tend to solve new problems in a more deliberate, controlled, and organized manner. Again, the key
here is new and unprecedented problems. The Lower D style will solve routine problems very quickly
because the outcomes are already known. But, when the outcomes are unknown and the problem is
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an uncertain one, the Lower D style will approach the new problem in a calculated and deliberate
manner by thinking things through very carefully before acting.
Natural 42 / Adaptive 35 Your score shows a low average score on the 'D' spectrum. The
100 comments below highlight some of the traits specific to just your
90 unique score.
80 • Under high pressure, you may become somewhat indecisive or

70 resistant to making a very quick decision.
• You are usually very supportive of decisions made by others on
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the team.
50 • You prefer a work environment that is not too pressured or filled
with constant change.
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• You can be very modest in dealing with others.
30 • You may be hesitant to share your opinion with others if the
topic is divisive or hotly contested.
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• You like to think things through before acting.
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Interactive
Your approach to interacting with people and display of emotions
The I in DISC represents Interactive. Your score on this scale represented below shows your location on
the I spectrum based on the pattern of your responses. A high score doesn't mean good, and a low score
doesn't mean bad, as this is a spectrum or continuum of behavioral traits. For example:
Higher I —
Tend to meet new people in an outgoing, gregarious, and socially assertive manner. The key here is
new people whom one hasn't met before. Many other styles are talkative, but more so with people
that they've known for some time. The Higher I scores are talkative, interactive and open even with
people whom they have just initially met. People scoring in this range may also be a bit impulsive.
Generally speaking, those with the Higher I scores are generally talkative and outgoing.
Lower I —
Tend to meet new people in a more controlled, quiet and reserved manner. Here's where the key word
"new people" enters the equation. Those with Lower I scores are talkative with their friends and close
associates, but tend to be more reserved with people they've just recently met. They tend to place a
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premium on the control of emotions, and approach new relationships with a more reflective approach
than an emotional one.
Natural 60 / Adaptive 39 Your score shows a high average score on the 'I' spectrum. The
90 unique score.
80 • People may find you charming to meet and to converse with on

70 a variety of topics.
• You can be an effective coach or counselor for others.
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• You like a flexible environment that allows for creativity.
50 • You tend to meet new people in a confident and appropriate
manner.
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• You like democratic not dictatorial relationships on the job.
30 • You may sometimes promise a bit more than you can deliver
because of your natural optimism.
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Stabilizing
Your approach to the pace of the work environment
The S in DISC represents Stabilizing. Your score on this scale represented below shows your location on
the S spectrum based on the pattern of your responses. A high score doesn't mean good, and a low score
doesn't mean bad, as this is a spectrum or continuum of behavioral traits. For example:
Higher S —
Tend to prefer a more controlled, deliberative and predictable environment. They place a premium on
security of a work situation and disciplined behavior. They also tend to show a sense of loyalty to a
team or organization, and as a result, may have a greater longevity or tenure in a position than some
other styles. They have an excellent listening style and are very patient coaches and teachers for others
on the team.
Lower S —
Tend to prefer a more flexible, dynamic, unstructured work environment. They value freedom of
expression and the ability to change quickly from one activity to another. They tend to become bored
with the same routine that brings security to the Higher S traits. As a result, they will seek opportunities
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and outlets for their high sense of urgency and high activity levels, as they have a preference for
spontaneity.
Natural 88 / Adaptive 46 Your score shows a very high score on the 'S' spectrum. The
90 unique score.
80 • You possess an amazing ability to calm those people who are

70 upset.
• You're not great at letting things go (e.g., original decisions, long
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held beliefs, etc).
50 • You possess excellent listening skills – some of the best.
• Increasing your sense of urgency could benefit your
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performance significantly.
30 • Even in the midst of chaos or high tensions, you are usually very
cool, calm, and serene (or at least you are perceived as such on
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the outside).
10 • You are an excellent team player.
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Cautious
Your approach to standards, procedures, and expectations
The C in DISC represents Cautiousness. Your score on the scale represented below shows your location
on the C spectrum based on the pattern of your responses. A high score doesn't mean good, and a low
score doesn't mean bad, as this is a spectrum or continuum of behavioral traits. For example:
Higher C —
Tend to adhere to rules, standards, procedures, and protocol set by those in authority whom they
respect. They like things to be done the right way according to the operating manual. "Rules are made
to be followed" is an appropriate motto for those with higher C scores. They have some of the highest
quality control interests of any of the styles and frequently wish others would do the same.
Lower C —
Tend to operate more independently from the rules and standard operating procedures. They tend to
be bottom-line oriented. If they find an easier way to do something, they'll do it by developing a variety
of strategies as situations demand. To the Lower C scores, rules are only guidelines, and may be bent
or broken as necessary to obtain results.
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Natural 46 / Adaptive 67 Your score shows a low average score on the 'C' spectrum. The
90 unique score.
80 • You are practical and realistic.

70 • You may be perceived as being non-committal by some when it
comes to deciding on how to proceed.
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• You are persistent in trying to get a message across, even in the
50 midst of resistance.
• You can easily work independently when it comes to completing
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tasks and assignments.
30 • You like taking your own way to the results.
• You prefer to act as your "own person" rather than follow the
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norm.
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The DISC Index Natural Style Pattern Overview
Natural Style Pattern:
Your natural style is the way you tend to behave when you aren't thinking about it. This is where you are
most comfortable (natural). This is also the style you will revert back to when under stress or moving too
quickly to be consciously thinking about modifying your behavior. Finally, this is the style you should
seek to be true to in your daily roles. Being natural will return better results with less effort and stress.
The following statements are true to just your unique natural style:
• Ready, willing, and able to help others to grow and become more effective and successful.
• Excellent team player and supportive of team efforts.
• Very inclusive of others on the team. No one feels left out.
• An ability to get along with a wide variety of different people.
• Good organizational skills in building complex processes and following through to completion while
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maintaining a positive climate.
• Has sincere interest in both internal and external stakeholders on a project.
• Persuades others by offering empathy, understanding, and friendship.
• A high service orientation, even as a leader.

The DISC Index Adaptive Style Pattern Overview
Adaptive Style Pattern:
This is the style of behavior you adapt to when you are conscious of your own behavior, when you feel
you are being observed or whenever you are trying to better fit a situation. This is not a natural style
for you, but still one of your two styles none-the-less. In other words, it is the way you feel you "should"
behave when thinking about it. The statements below are specific to your individual Adaptive style:
• May show a lower trust level with newer people in the organization until they have established their
credibility.
• Sets an example for others in being systematic and logical in developing procedures.
• Sees the need to move quickly, but also the importance of analyzing facts and data before deciding.
• Tends to be most effective in a work culture where conflicts are kept to a minimum.
• May be skeptical of making changes just for the sake of change, especially when the alternative is
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unfamiliar, new or unproven.
• May be one of the rare members of the project team who has read all of the 'fine print' in policies
or procedures.
• Demonstrates to others the completion of projects with a high degree of precision and accuracy,
and expects the same from them.
• Supports the idea that assigning roles and responsibilities grows an effective and efficient
organization.

The DISC Index Ideas for Being More Effective
Based on your behavioral style there are certain opportunities for becoming more effective by being
aware of how you prefer, and enjoy, to behave. The items below may assist you in your professional
development growth. By understanding these items you may find explanations for why you may be stuck
in some areas of your life and why other aspects give you no trouble at all. You could be more effective
by:
• Being more precise.
• Creating some efficient systems to handle routine work more effectively.
• Taking some more calculated risks.
• Having clear and specific job descriptions, and role responsibilities.
• Being more direct and to the point in verbal communications.
• Controlling your emotions more.
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• Generating a greater sense of urgency to get things done… now.
• Being part of a team.

The DISC Index Ideas for Staying More Motivated
Your behavioral style will cause you to be motivated by certain factors in your environment. Having these
present may make you feel more motivated, and productive. The following are things that you may want
in your surroundings to feel optimally motivated:
• Work tasks of a highly specialized nature to support your natural curiosity and detail orientation.
• Changes should be controlled changes, and made only when proven to be necessary changes.
• Complete explanations of systems and processes that impact your work environment.
• Security in knowing that the products and services are of highest quality.
• To be included as a part of the work group in social functions.
• Detailed examples and specific information about suggested changes to be made in processes that
may have an impact on quality.
• Standard operating procedures that can support a quality initiative without being changed
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dramatically.
• Tasks completed the 'right' way the first time, so that errors don't have to be corrected later.

The DISC Index Strength-based Insights
Each behavioral style contains certain unique strengths as a result of how your four behavioral dimensions
relate to each other. Understanding your own unique behavioral strengths is an important part of putting
your new level of self-awareness to work for your success and satisfaction. The following statements
highlight specific strengths of your behavioral style:
• Able to meet new people with poise and confidence.
• Builds good team relationships without being an extremist.
• Can be charming and persuasive in a variety of situations and builds excellent social rapport.
• Not an extremist and is able to get along very well with a wide variety of other styles.
• High degree of service-orientation.
• Able to negotiate through conflicts to bring a win-win solution.
• Extensive base of both knowledge and expertise can be tapped to assist in getting a job done.
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• Able to reconcile various factions within a group and do so in a sincere and stable manner.

The DISC Index Ideal Job/Climate
Your behavioral style plays a significant role in determining what aspects of an environment you like.
The items below will help you understand what will define an ideal working climate for you. Based on
how you prefer to behave, an ideal climate for you is one that provides you with:
• A work environment with a predictable pattern of activity so as to monitor quality processes.
• Projects completed the 'right way' the first time, to avoid problems later on.
• Complete information, details, and examples with no gaps or surprises.
• Highly specialized assignments and technical areas of responsibility.
• Activities that can be monitored from beginning to end.
• Complete explanations of areas of responsibility and control.
• An environment that supports your critical thinking skills.
• Freedom from intense time-pressured decisions.
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The DISC Index Areas for Continual Improvement
Along with strengths, all behavioral styles come with areas that could become weaknesses - if depended
upon or not acknowledged. The trick is not to manufacture a weakness in the first place by depending
on these things.
Here are a few items that could become problematic for you if not acknowledged or known. Your
awareness of the potentials below is your best step in making sure they remain only potential problems.
Due to your behavioral style, you may tend to:
• Maintain silence in a negative situation than to work in a pro-active way to create changes.
• Struggle with prioritizing. Under pressure all items may be ranked as most important.
• Say "yes" too often and spread yourself too thin.
• Hold too much to past tradition in procedures and processes.
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• Become a selective listener.
• Be less self-assertive.
• Struggle meeting deadlines.
• Be overly optimistic in ability to persuade or manage others.

The DISC Index Preferred Training and Learning Style
Based on how you tend to behave you have certain preferences for how you like to convey information,
teach, instruct or share knowledge with others. This is also true of how you like to receive information
and learn. Understanding your behavioral preferences here will help increase your effectiveness in
teaching or instructing others, and in being taught and learning.
How you prefer to share knowledge or teach:
• Enriches the content with stories and experiences.
• Does independent practice as well as working with others.
• Excellent note-taking, record-keeping, and journaling.
• Structures events to inspire participants to act on their ideas and visions.
• Shows patience with tedious, technical, and specialty tasks.
• Looks for meaning and clear integration of the learning activities.
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• Likes to have an active learning environment.
How you prefer to receive knowledge or learn:
• As a participant, prefers a balance between individual and group work.
• Likes to integrate experiences with practical applications and ideas.
• Excellent at note-taking, record-keeping, and journaling.
• Likes self-discovery and trial and error methods occasionally.
• Strives to achieve deeper understanding and connection to learning.
• Wants to learn and help others learn as well.
• Likes active testing of ideas and experiences.

The DISC Index Communication Insights for Others
This page is unique in this report because it is the only one that doesn't speak directly to you, rather to
those who interact with you. The information below will help others communicate with you more
effectively by appealing to your natural behavioral style. The first items are things others SHOULD do to
be better understood by you (Do's) and the second list is of things others SHOULD NOT do (Don'ts) if
they want you to understand them well.
Things to do to effectively communicate with you:
• Be certain to emphasize next action-steps.
• Outline individual tasks and responsibilities in writing.
• Be certain that individual responsibilities are clear and there are no ambiguities.
• Find some areas of common interest and involvement.
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• Provide clear, specific solutions, and support your position.
• Free-up enough to be engaging, stimulating, and fast-paced.
• You will follow through on you part; you be certain to follow through on your part.
Things to avoid to effectively communicate with you:
• Don't offer promises you can't keep.
• Don't be domineering or demanding.
• Don't offer assurances and guarantees you can't fulfill.
• Don't legislate.
• Don't force Dexter Allen to agree quickly with your objectives and position; provide some time to
warm up to the ideas and for mutual ownership.
• Don't be rude, abrupt, or too fast-paced in your delivery.
• Don't make decisions for Dexter Allen .

The DISC Index Relevance Section
In order to make the most out of the information in this report it is important that you connect it to your
life in a tangible way. To help you make this information your own, and pull out the most relevant parts,
fill in the blanks below.
Decisiveness:
How is your 'D' score relevant to your life?
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Interacting:
How is your 'I' score relevant to your life?
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Stabilizing:
How is your 'S' score relevant to your life?
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Cautiousness:
How is your 'C' score relevant to your life?
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Overall Natural Style:

What is one way in which your natural style relates to your life?
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Overall Adaptive Style:

What is one way in which your adaptive style relates to your life?
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Strength-based insights:
What specific strengths do you think connect to your success more than any other?
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Communication Dos and Don'ts:

What did you learn from understanding your preferred communication style?
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Ideal Job Climate:

How well does your current climate fit your behavioral style?
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Effectiveness:
What is one way in which you could become more effective?
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Motivation:
How can you stay more motivated?
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Improvement:
What is something you learned that you can use to improve your performance?
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Training/Learning:
What did you learn that could help you instruct others better, or learn more effectively?
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Your final step to making sure you really benefit from the information in this report is to understand
how your behavioral style contributes to, and perhaps hinders, your overall success.
Supporting Success:
Overall, how can your unique behavioral style support your success? (cite specific examples)
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Limiting Success:
Overall, how could your unique behavioral style get in the way of your success? (cite specific examples)
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Natural and Adaptive Styles Comparison

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About This Report

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The Elements of the DISC-Index

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A closer look at the four components of your behavioral style

Decisive Interactive Stabilizing Cautious

Problems: People: Pace: Procedures:

High D High I High S High C

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Low D Low I Low S Low C

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Your approach to problem-solving and obtaining results

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80 • Under high pressure, you may become somewhat indecisive or

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Your approach to interacting with people and display of emotions

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80 • People may find you charming to meet and to converse with on

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Your approach to the pace of the work environment

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80 • You possess an amazing ability to calm those people who are

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Your approach to standards, procedures, and expectations

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80 • You are practical and realistic.

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Natural Style Pattern:

• Excellent team player and supportive of team efforts.

• Very inclusive of others on the team. No one feels left out.

• An ability to get along with a wide variety of different people.

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• Has sincere interest in both internal and external stakeholders on a project.

• Persuades others by offering empathy, understanding, and friendship.

• A high service orientation, even as a leader.

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Adaptive Style Pattern:

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and expects the same from them.

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• Being more precise.

• Creating some efficient systems to handle routine work more effectively.

• Taking some more calculated risks.

• Having clear and specific job descriptions, and role responsibilities.

• Being more direct and to the point in verbal communications.

• Controlling your emotions more.

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• Being part of a team.

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