DISC styles all deal very differently with the end-of-summer slump. Here’s how each style wraps up their summer… or clings to it for dear life:
D Style (Dominant): Summer may be over but results never go out of season. The D style rolls in from their “working vacation” already asking, “What are our
Q4 goals?” They’re wearing sunglasses indoors and suggesting major restructures. If you say, “Let’s ease back in,” they hear, “Challenge accepted.”
I Style (Influential): Still wearing flip-flops. Still talking about their beach vacation. Their calendar is packed with “catch-up” meetings that somehow do get done. They’re campaigning for a team luau and insisting that every meeting end with a group selfie. Work? Oh yes, that too—right after they finish decorating their office with seashells.
S Style (Steady): Quietly putting away the inflatable flamingo and reordering printer ink. The S-style spent their vacation worrying about how others were doing without them—and now they’re back, ready to stabilize the chaos. While others complain about emails, they’ve already organized the shared drive. They miss summer, but they’ll never say it out loud. Instead, they gently suggest everyone, “Just breathe.”
C Style (Conscientious): They never left. The C style used the “quiet summer months” to update the entire operations manual and color-code the budget forecast. They’re now highly alarmed by the influx of messy post-vacation brainstorming and are requesting a 17-slide deck justifying why we need a tropical-themed team lunch.
Moral of this story?
While D’s are chasing deadlines! I’s are chasing fun lines! S’s are chasing stability, and
C’s are chasing perfection. Not sure which DISC style you are? Or how to survive the fall chaos with these characters around you? It’s time to take the DISC profile and call Dr. Mimi. She’ll help you decode your team. Don’t wait—autumn is coming, and so are the all-staff meetings!
