When we are unsure of our career direction or facing unmet expectations in our current work, it helps to have a fresh approach. The Caring Connection’s services will help you advance your career.  We review your situation; explore your interests and work/personality styles.  We look at the your situation, and help you adjust your focus. We help you plan strategically so you can make the most of your talents and maximize your earning potential. We use the DiSC^® family of instruments from Inscape Publishing to help guide you to a fresh start.

Inscape Publishing, an international publisher of research-based learning instruments, has found through its DiSC^® research that the self-reported behaviors of men and women in the workplace do not differ across the DiSC^® scale's four dimensions: Dominance, Influence, Supportiveness and Conscientiousness. Inscape's DiSC^® instrument, which has been validated internationally, reveals that the mean scores of women and men on each of the dimensions are almost equal. In other words, there are just as many women exhibiting Dominance behavior as there are men. Similarly, there are as many men with high Supportiveness dimensions as there are women.

"When it comes to the workplace, gender is not a good predictor of behavioral style," says Jeffrey Sugerman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Inscape Publishing. "The data from DiSC^® tell us that rather than encouraging a gender dichotomy, training and development professionals can best help a workforce be effective and productive by focusing on understanding the individual person and how that person's behaviors best relate to the styles of others."

The DiSC^® instrument is a self-directed, self-scoring behavioral tool with scientific validity and reliability. It began with a theory of human behavior advanced in the 1920s by American psychologist William Moulton Marston. Inscape Publishing used Marston's work as the foundation for further research and ultimately created the Personal Profile System^® a DiSC^® tool that has been used for nearly three decades by more than 40 million people worldwide. Today, the DiSC tool is available in 17 languages.

According to the DiSC^® model, every individual possesses a combination of four behavioral dimensions. Typically, one dimension is more prominent than the others. The four dimensions are: