Exploring Team Dynamics: Leveraging DISC for Team Effectiveness

This report delves into the characteristics of team dynamics, utilizing the DISC (Dominance, Influence, Steadiness, Conscientiousness) personality assessment tool to analyze team member strengths and potential challenges. The team comprises members with varying DISC styles, including iD, I, C, SC, and iS, with a majority exhibiting I (Influence) traits, indicating strong communication and participative management skills. Strengths include encouragement, stability, and detail-orientation. However, the team may face challenges due to opposing personalities, differing preferences for predictability, and potential domination by certain personality types, leading to conflicts. To maximize effectiveness, the report suggests assigning roles based on personality traits, positioning the iD personality as a leader, leveraging the C personality for fact-checking, and utilizing the S personality for conflict resolution and team harmony. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of balancing the positive and negative aspects of each trait for optimal team performance. Desklib provides past papers and solved assignments for students.

CHARACTERISTICS OF
TEAM DYNAMICS
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CONTENTS
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1. Introduction
2. Strengths of Team Members
3. Challenges Team May Encounter
4. Steps to Maximize Effectiveness of the
Team
5. Conclusion
6. References
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INTRODUCTION
 DiSC- Personality test
 Generally used for managers
 Created by Walter Vernon
Clarke
 Based on the work of Dr
William Moulton Marston, who
was an industrial psychologist
and a lawyer (Koffel, Kramer,
Arbisi, Erbes, Kaler and
Polusny, 2016) .
 Created in 1965.

INTRODUCTION
DIMENSIONS OF DISC D- Dominance, Direct,
Decisive, lead not follow,
high self-confidence,
risk-takers and problem-
solvers(Koffel,
Kramer, Arbisi, Erbes,
Kaler
and Polusny, 2016).
I- Influence, enthusiastic,
optimistic, talkative,
persuasive, impulsive
and emotional.
S- Steady, stable,
predictable, even-
tempered, sympathetic
and generous.
C- Conscientiousness,
accurate, precise, detail-
oriented, analytical and
systematic thinkers
(Crowe, 2015).

STRENGHTS OF TEAM MEMBERS
 2 team members- iD style
 1 team member- I style
 1 team member- C style
 1 team member- SC style
 1 team member- iS style

STRENGHTS OF
TEAM MEMBERS
 Majority have I style.
 Participative managers and
instinctive communicators.
 Work together as a whole.
 Give encouragement to one
another (Crowe, 2015).
 Positive attitudes would
ensure that work would get
done.

STRENGHTS OF
TEAM MEMBERS
 2 members in the team have
the S trait.
 Stable and Predictable
 Good at Multi-tasking
 Ensure all team members
complete tasks they have
been assigned (Hancock,
2016).

STRENGHTS OF
TEAM MEMBERS
 Other Dominant personality- C
Type
 Analytical, Precise and detail-
oriented
 Research would be done
accurately
 Very even-tempered
(Poulopoulos,
Vassilakis, Antoniou, Lepouras
, Theodoropoulos and Wallace,
2018).

CHALLENGES
TEAM MAY FACE
 Medley of opposing
personalities
 Team might not get along.
 In a practical setting, under
intense pressure, team might
start to disintegrate
(Hancock, 2016).

CHALLENGES
TEAM MAY FACE
 Some members- detail-
oriented, others are not.
 Many members-like
unpredictability, while other
members would not (Kim and
Yang, 2016).
 Create tensions in the team.
 Opposing and clashing
personalities would be the
main challenge.

CHALLENGES
TEAM MAY FACE
 Figuring out the role in the
team according to the style.
 Efficient understanding of the
types and individual is
required.
 Time-consuming and
challenging
(Poulopoulos, Vassilakis, Anto
niou, Lepouras, Theodoropoul
os and Wallace, 2018).

CHALLENGES TEAM MAY FACE
 Final challenge-
domination of a
personality type.
 Potential grudges
could result from
lack of conflict
resolution (Kim and
Yang, 2016).
 Morale of the team
would be reduced to
a large extent.