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- Introverts and Extroverts - this video
- Introduction to DISC
- D-type (the red one)
- I-type (the yellow one)
- S-type (the green one)
- C-type (the blue one)
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Hi, this is Danni. Welcome to Friday Feedback.
Do you sometimes find yourself asking your team a question, but it's always the same person, or the same few people, who answer?
There can be many different reasons for that, but one of the ones I always mention in the workshops I do with teams is [bank bank].
And here you'd better watch the video, because it clearly makes more sense ;-) If you want to read below - know that it's 2 versions of "me" speaking as Introvert Ib and Extrovert Danni respectively.
Yes? Come on in.
Hey!
This is Ib...
Ib, I was just talking about why some people don't say much. For example, at meetings or when questions are asked.
Yeah, I guess you did. You certainly talk all the time.
That's because you never say anything, isn't it?
I say something when I have something relevant to say.
So do I!
Well. Okay, but then we might have different critiques of what's relevant.
One of the differences between us is the way we source energy.
I am energised by people and it is often by talking that I think. It also means that sometimes I say things that I don't really mean. But other times, my words are flashy poetry!
[Ib: Yes. Okay...] Like that.
I get most energy from being alone or with a few people I know well. I prefer to think about what I want to say before I open my mouth.
Unlike him.
And if you give me some time to think first, you'll often find that I have something original to offer. If you don't give me time, then I probably won't say much.
So the difference between us is not how outgoing we are.
There is recent research showing that there is a neurological difference between introverts and extroverts.
In brain scans, there is more activity in the areas of long-term memory and planning when introverted processors input.
This may also explain why the response you get from introverts is sometimes more considered. It's simply been through some more places in your brain.
And that's often the misconception I encounter. Many people think that introverts are bad at talking to people or are shy, but that's not true. I can be very social and outgoing.
But it just requires more energy from me. So I'm intuitively aware of when I'm using energy.
Ib and I, for example, once went to a meeting together.
There were discussions and it all went a bit fast. The energy was high. Both Ib and I were super active in the meeting because we were professionally committed to what it was all about.
I was SO tired afterwards.
And I was really excited afterwards.
Another thing I often encounter is people who think you can be introverted at home and extroverted at work. Or vice versa. But while that can change throughout life, the way we charge and the way we process input doesn't change throughout the day.
It's kind of just who you are.
But there are other things that are very context-dependent. We'll come back to that next week.
But either way, none of us are 100% extroverts or 100% introverts.
Perhaps we are even ambivert. That's what you call it when you're right in the middle. Then we have a bit from both camps.
What do you really think about this scale? Introvert - Extrovert.
Is it something you use at work?
Perhaps in the context of feedback?
We'll talk more about that next week, but for now, thanks for watching.
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