Sample mydiscprofile Report

How to read your report

Important information about this report

Don't skip this section!

Your report has been compiled from your answers by an automatic process based purely on the answers you gave to the questionnaire. That means that it's completely objective, and it's also direct - in assessing your existing strengths, and also in making suggestions that might help you develop towards your goals.

While reading your report, it's important to be aware of a subtle effect that psychologists call confirmation bias. In the context of a report like this, that means that most people will tend to agree with the most positive comments about themselves, and reject less positive remarks. Often, though, it's exactly the suggestions that challenge preconceptions that are the most useful, so try to weigh the contents of the report accordingly.

That doesn't mean that we insist everything in this report must be true! The details given here are based on your answers to the questionnaire, and we hope you'll find them truly useful in helping to understand yourself, or at least give you some important topics to think about. However, the personalities of human beings are immensely variable - probably infinitely so - and a simple test like this can only cover a finite number of possibilities.

With all that in mind, we hope you find much in your report to engage your interest and suggest possibilities for the future.

Important: Don't skip this section!

If you want to get the most out of your mydiscprofile report, you'll want to take a few minutes to absorb the important information on this page.

What are the most basic elements of your personality?

We analyze the answers you gave to the questionnaire to work out the values for four fundamental factors in your personal style. From the combinations of these values, we can tell a great deal about your personality. These four most basic factors are shown in this graph:

So, what does that mean in practice?

You're a confident and open individual who enjoys the company of others, and actively seeks out positive and friendly relations with the people around you. You communicate easily with others, whether they're familiar to you or not, and you're not afraid to find yourself at the center of attention.

How are these scores calculated?

Your results are created from your answers to the mydiscprofile questionnaire using a profiling system known as DISC (from the initials of Dominance, Influence, Steadiness and Compliance). DISC is widely used in professional personal assessments, and mydiscprofile uses the same underlying theory to give you a personal report built using professional techniques.

Handy Hint

The word trait just refers to any distinct feature or element of your personality. If you're unsure about any of the terms used in this report, remember that you can always check the Glossary.

What are 'Core Values'?

For most people, the driving forces behind their approach to life can ultimately be summed up in terms of a few brief concepts. These concepts are referred to here as 'Core Values': they're the internal 'signpost' we use to judge situations, and work out how to react to them.

For example, let's say you're a person who values 'Challenge'. If that's the case, you'll actively seek out situations that provide you with the challenging conditions you prefer, and avoid those that don't. You'll also tend to judge events and people depending on the extent to which they fulfill this particular need.

Positive and Negative

Core Values aren't always positive in their effects: they can have a negative impact, too. Events or developments that challenge these basic values can lead to responses ranging from disinterest to discomfort.

So, an understanding of the Core Values that lie at the heart of your personal approach to life can be extremely helpful in understanding how and why you react the way you do.

What are your 'Core Values'?

In this section, we've selected a few Core Values that closely match your own personal style. These are the kinds of values that underlie the way you look at life, and the way you form judgments about the events and people in your life.

Every different type of personality has its own distinctive strengths, and its own distinctive abilities that stem from those strengths. Those same strengths and abilities are always - without exception - balanced by limitations and disadvantages. The key to making the most of your personal style is understanding where your strengths and limitations lie. Armed with that knowledge, you can take maximum advantage of your strengths, while avoiding potential problems arising from your personal limits.

Strengths and Limitations

In this section, you'll find a breakdown of your most important areas of strength, each shown with all its related advantages, abilities and limitations.

This symbol marks the strengths of each facet of your personality, areas where that aspect of your style gives you real advantages.

This symbol marks the limitations that balance out of each of your strengths, describing conditions where your approach might be less effective.

What is ‘personal development’?

As well as building a picture of your personality as it stands at the moment, the mydiscprofile questionnaire can also extrapolate from that picture to identify the kinds of changes or adaptations you'd likely want to see in your approach. These adaptations are typically due to your perceptions of how you ideally need to behave to fit into your current life situation.

Personal Development is the process of adapting your personal style to meet these perceived requirements. In this section, we look at the kinds of directions you seem to be wanting to develop your style (based on your answers to the mydiscprofile question set, of course). Where possible, we also offer a range of helpful advice to guide you towards those goals.

Changes shown in your results

The chart below shows the changes in terms of your four main personality factors: Dominance, Influence, Steadiness and Compliance. Larger bars indicate greater potential for change in your approach, for that particular factor. Bars pointing upward indicate that you're seeking to increase the factor in question, while bars pointing downward suggest that you're looking to decrease the factor's importance.

Judge for Yourself

The Personal Development guidelines discussed in this section are calculated from the results of your profile, but only you yourself are qualified to judge the extent they apply to your own situation. More than any other section of this report, it's important to treat these comments as objective advice, rather than definitive statements.

What these changes mean in practice

You seem to be looking to develop your sense of co-operation and interaction with others somewhat, and to actively take the time to discuss issues with other people. Though you're usually capable of coming quickly to a decision on your own, consulting others like this, or canvassing their opinions, might indeed provide a useful alternative perspective.

How do we relate to one another?

Relationships with others are probably the key component in any discussion of personality: in fact, how we perceive others, and how others perceive us, lie at the heart of what 'personality' means.

When it comes to relating to others, it's simply not possible to understand their motivations and intentions directly: instead, it's normal to consider others' behavior through the filter of your own attitudes and presumptions. This 'filtering' effect can have an enormous effect on the way you understand others, and on the way that others see you.

Learning to communicate more effectively

There's little doubt that your highly sociable and personable attitude, and your naturally friendly disposition, mean that you're already a very effective communicator in many different types of situation. You have a natural sense of personal confidence, and because of that you tend to respond to others in a natural and intuitive way.

It's possible, however, that your natural and expressive approach may serve you less well than normal in situations that require a rather more formal and controlled attitude. In situations of this kind, it will be worthwhile adopting a slightly more cautious approach to communication, and taking a moment to consider your responses, for example, to any questions put to you.

What is your ‘work style’?

Success in the work arena is as dependent on your personal style as any other aspect of life. In this section of your personal report, we look at the ways your particular defining characteristics will tend to affect the way you operate in a working environment. We also look at how you're likely to behave in some common working situations.

Your most important work skills

Every different personality type has its own associated set of work skills, and of course there are very many of these, depending on the detailed circumstances and the requirements of a particular job.

Here, we select some of the most important work skills suggested by your profile style.

What types of roles suit you best?

The key to successful career planning is to identify roles that match your natural abilities, so that they can provide a working environment where you not only feel engaged and motivated, but also make the most effective use of your natural talents. In this section, we look at some of the types of roles that will suit your style particularly well.

Remember that this analysis is based specifically on your personality style, and no other factors. Many of the roles or careers that we discuss here will also involve specialist interests, abilities or skills that lie outside the realm of this assessment. Those factors aside, these are the types of roles that match your particular personal approach.