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About Styles

When people discover their own unique behaviour styles, they take the first step toward working more collaboratively with their managers, team members, and fellow employees.

Until now, behavioural assessment reports contained pages of graph plotting points, making them difficult for the layperson to understand. Until now, behavioural assessment reports failed to engage people or, worse, caused a feeling of defensiveness.

Meet Pro-ActiveStyles, named for the unique features that cause people to take action. When individuals take a pro-active role and interact with their reports, good things happen in the workplace.

What is Pro-ActiveStyles™?

Pro-ActiveStyles is an online questionnaire based on Marston's four-dimensional DISC model. Four behaviour components are explored: Decisive, Interactive, Stabilising and Cautious.

Because the report also includes feedback on the subject's learning and facilitating style, this tool helps people who will be called upon to teach, train, facilitate or present information in the course of their work.

The report includes insights into the participant's:

  • Basic style characteristics (that is, the behaviour style when the participant is unaware of how they appear to others)
  • Audienced style characteristics (that is, the behaviour style when the participant is aware of their behaviour)
  • Primary strengths
  • Management Insights
  • Motivation Insights
  • Work culture insights
  • Communication Insights - "Dos and Don'ts"
  • Areas for continuous quality improvement
  • Training and learning insights

Because the report also includes feedback on the subject's learning and facilitating style, this tool helps people who will be called upon to teach, train, facilitate or present information in the course of their work. When individuals take a pro-active role and interact with their reports, good things happen in the workplace.

Who is Pro-ActiveStyles™ for?

For facilitators looking for an insightful tool to be used within a number of personal development contexts.

What solutions does Pro-ActiveStyles™ provide?

This instrument can be used in the following training contexts:

  • Team building
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Personal Development
  • Management Training
  • Motivation

What is special and unique about Pro-ActiveStyles™?

  • Pro-ActiveStyles gives people feedback on their learning and facilitating styles. Use this unique feature to help people in client organisations who will be called upon to teach, train, facilitate or present information to an audience in the context of their work. HR and training departments use report results to understand specific learning needs of participants and the facilitating styles of trainers.

  • The Pro-ActiveStyles reports are represented in way that increases the acceptance of results. They use colourful thermometer and pie-charts, indicating the degree of DISC in each person's preferences; making them simple, highly visual, easy for your clients to understand and take action. There is a definite advantage in having a large number of text files available (to describe a person's style). The greater number of files, the more specific and accurate the description will be for the subject. This means that people feel better about the results of their profiles (higher face validity). Pro-ActiveStyles uses three times the text resources that other profiles use.

  • Pro-ActiveStyles also avoids the definitive style of typical behavioural profiles, which can make people defensive. Instead, Pro-ActiveStyles always says a person "scores like people who are ." So, Jack scores like people who are direct. Jack doesn't get defensive. That means he is more likely to accept his report and adapt his behaviour style when it counts. This one difference alone can improve the consultant's success rate with behavioural assessment programs.

User testimonial for Pro-ActiveStyles™

"My observation of the Pro-ActiveStyles™ report:

  1. I find the headings of Problems, People, Pace, Procedure to be a helpful focus - the entire "Four Components" page is informative and easy to comprehend.
  2. characteristics pages seem more informative than prior DISc materials I'd seen. Seems written in common "business language". I like the accompanying reasoning behind statements
  3. the "needs" is deadly correct Darn!
  4. "training and learning styles" section is a great addition. How great to see someone acknowledge that individuals vary in their learning styles

Thank you for letting me take the Pro-ActiveStyles. I learned from the info and think it's a good tool.
LoRayne Logan
workplace