Intro to DISC - Personality Profiling
Profile your personality to help find the right college match.
For years, DISC personality profiling has helped business people communicate more effectively and hire workers that fit their jobs and management teams. Through testing, employees also gain insight into how they can effectively improve their performance in the workplace and find "their fit" in the company.
Now the sports world is finding the DISC system to be beneficial to athletes. Many NBA teams use this system to draft and recruit players whose test scores "fit" their team chemistry and coaching philosophies. Sports psychologists and performance coaches also use DISC test results to help individual athletes increase their performance and develop strong mental games.
The idea is simple: champions that can repeatedly perform well, have excellent "self awareness" of their personality traits. They are aware of their strengths and weaknesses and can learn to "balance" their personality to prevent mental mistakes and ensure continued focus and motivation.
Champions who know their traits also minimize mistakes by staying true to their strengths. Just as a successful trainer stays true to whom they are with horses, clients and building on successes.
There are four distinct personality traits used to model your behavior:
Dominance
Influence
Steadiness
Compliance
Your results can span from low, mid, or high range in your results. These scores help you learn who you are, what type of school and coach will fit your goals, the basis of your motivation in your sport, problems that arise from being too low or high in a trait, and much more.
Finding out who you are as a student, friend, athlete, son or daughter is the first key in searching for a college program. This is your decision and knowing who you are and what you want is the first step!
To take your free DISC personality test, visit the link here.
Betty Baird Kregor is an LPGA Master Teaching Professional and owner of StraightShot Inc., specializing in the DISC personality system to mentor and advise athletes of all ages and abilities.
In 2014, Kregor retired from over 27 years of teaching golf to consult athletes in the mental aspects of sport an serve as a "performance coach" for goals, scheduling, practice programs, college advising and more.
Her LPGA education in DISC profiling allows an athlete to maximize their performance with "self awareness" of their strengths and weaknesses. It is also an important tool in finding the right college fit. College athletic consulting is a service that benefits 9-12th graders in learning how to market their talents, schedule college visits and value the importance of academics.