Understanding People

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Understanding People

• Session I
• Identifying your Personal Profile

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Getting to know you

• Objective This exercise is designed to help us
  get to know one another. Select a partner close
  to you and interview them with the questions on
  the handout. Your partner will then interview
  you. When completed, you will be asked to
  introduce your partner to other participants. You
  have five minutes.

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DiSC

• D Dominance
• I Influencing / Interacting
• S Steadiness
• C Compliance / Cautious

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DiSC Personal Profile

• Select a setting or focus that you will keep in
  mind as you respond to the profile questions.
• E.g. Wednesday at your workplace or morning
  activity.

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DiSC Personal Profile
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Understanding People

• Session II
• Interpreting your Personal Profile

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Tallying the Profile
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Plotting the Profile
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Perfectionist
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Understanding People

• Session III
• Understanding our Differences

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Differences in Perception
Is the glass
Well, it really depends on my mood.
Half-full???
Who cares?
Half-empty???
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Unshaven, Unkempt
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Motivating Principles

• You cannot motivate other people.
• All people are motivated.
• People do things for their reasons, not your
  reasons.
• A persons strength overextended may become a
  limitation.

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Building on our Strengths
Where were strongest
Strength
Situation
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Balance Formula
Personality (who you are)
Environment (where you are)
Behavioral Style (what you do)
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Understanding People

• Session IV
• Transformation within
• Personality Styles

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Psalm 139.13 - NIV

• For you created my inmost being you knit me
  together in my mothers womb.

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What would Jesus do if He were me?

• Balance our strengths to avoid overextension.
• Empower us by the Holy Spirit to turn weaknesses
  into assets.
• Fill us with with His love so that His strength
  and power overcomes our fears.

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