1. Understanding People Session I Identifying your Personal Profile

2. 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.

3. DiSC D – Dominance I – Influencing / Interacting S – Steadiness C – Compliance / Cautious

4. 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.

5. DiSC Personal Profile

6. Understanding People Session II Interpreting your Personal Profile

7. Tallying the Profile

8. Plotting the Profile 216 7 Perfectionist

9. Understanding People Session III Understanding our Differences

10. Differences in Perception Is the glass … Half-full??? Half-empty??? Well, it really depends on my mood. Who cares?

11. Unshaven, Unkempt

12. Motivating Principles You cannot motivate other people. All people are motivated. People do things for their reasons, not your reasons. A person’s strength overextended may become a limitation.

13. Building on our Strengths StrengthSituation Where we’re strongest

14. Balance Formula Personality (who you are) Environment (where you are) Behavioral Style (what you do)

15. Understanding People Session IV Transformation within Personality Styles

16. Psalm 139.13 - NIV “For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.”

17. 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.