Four Styles
Inspired by the DISC model, with our own questions.
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What it measures
DISC describes four ways of handling problems and people: pushing for the result, winning people over, keeping things steady, and getting the details right. Most people use all four. The test finds the two you reach for first, and how far ahead of the others they are.
Each of the 24 questions is a set of four words. You pick the one most like you and the one least like you, so you cannot rate yourself high on everything. That keeps it quick, and it means your scores compare your four styles with each other. They say nothing about how you compare with other people.
It is one of the most used personality tools at work, and it has little independent research behind it. Read it as a vocabulary for how you like to work. It does not forecast how well you will do.
Three of the questions
- Patient / Precise / Enthusiastic / Decisive
- Perfectionist / People-pleasing / Blunt / Dramatic
- Light-hearted / Frank / Peaceful / Organized
What you get
- Your four style scores on a 0 to 100 scale, where 50 means even
- A portrait of your primary style and of your secondary style
- Your blend, one of 12, with what it does well and what it costs
- How the scoring works, and what the result cannot tell you
Where it comes from
William Moulton Marston, a psychologist who also worked on an early lie detector, described four patterns of emotion and behavior in his 1928 book Emotions of Normal People. He called them dominance, inducement, submission and compliance, names that have softened a good deal since. Others later turned his model into word-choice questionnaires. Ours follows that format, with 24 sets of words we wrote ourselves.
Who owns the original
The four-part model comes from William Moulton Marston's 1928 book Emotions of Normal People. DiSC (with a small i) and Everything DiSC are trademarks of Inscape Publishing, Inc., a John Wiley and Sons company. We are not affiliated with Wiley or Inscape, and our words and scoring are our own.