PREFACE
The complex world of adult education presents many unique challenges. The most significant of these are a lack of motivation, low self-efficacy beliefs and learning difficulties. Additionally, the desire of adults to learn by actively participating in training and sharing their own experiences creates a new situation for trainers that needs to be understood. Instructors are expected to find solutions to all these issues affecting the quality of education.
Education always requires embracing individual differences. If you treat every participant based solely on what you know, have memorised or seen from predecessors, you become indifferent to different personalities, learning styles and behavioural patterns, and fail to achieve the desired impact of the training. In order to manage these differences, it is necessary to first recognise them, learn their characteristics and understand how to interact with each one.
I authored this book to guide instructors through the complex world of adult education. My aim is to offer simple solutions to the daunting questions you face: How can an instructor reach every participant, understand their needs, facilitate better learning, encourage participation and foster classroom harmony?
Renowned as one of the personality tests used by Human Resources professionals in hiring, DISC offers a method that will make your job easier in this regard. DISC provides educators with a scientific yet highly practical approach to interpreting participants’ non-verbal communication, resolving conflicts in the classroom, tailoring lessons to learning styles and discovering your own teaching identity.
This book takes you on a journey through the history of DISC and its modern classroom applications. It challenges the traditional teaching approach of trying to make everyone the same, which often prevents creativity, curiosity and individual potential from flourishing. It whispers to us: ‘Every individual speaks their own language. To understand them, you need the key to communication.’
Each of the four DISC personality types — D (Dominant Personality, or Dominance-Red), I (Influential Personality, or Influence-Yellow), S (Steady Personality, or Steadiness-Green) and C (Conscientious Personality, or Compliance/Conscientious-Blue) — is explained in detail. Alongside insights into how they relate to you and other participants in the classroom environment, it provides tips on how to approach them. Realistic examples in case studies and enjoyable role-plays for use in the classroom help you to understand and internalise DISC.
As you turn the pages, you will learn how to use DISC to solve fundamental training problems such as reluctance, loss of motivation, lack of discipline, group conflicts and undesirable behaviours exhibited by adults during training. You will perhaps realise for the first time that the dominating speaker is a ‘D’ leader, the quiet one an ‘S’ team anchor, the impetuous one an ‘I’ driving force and the one debating the rules a ‘C’ justice warrior. As you understand DISC, you will be able to manage, guide and transform these personalities more effectively.
This book will boost your impact in the learning environment and give you confidence.
If you’re ready, let’s begin!
Welcome to the fascinating world of DISC…
Tarkan Düzgünçınar (Ph.D.)
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