A workplace without stress can’t be imagined. Everyone experiences stress to a greater or lesser extent. Everyone reacts differently to it. Where one person becomes quieter, another becomes more present. Stress reinforces our behaviour; it affects our judgement and makes us react less effectively. A DISC analysis can offer insight when it comes to how stress can influence the four different behavioural styles.
Stress in blue behavioural style:
- Becoming too critical and perfectionist
- React cynically
- Insist too much on the rules
- Becoming fussy
- React negatively and pessimistically
- Appearing unemotional and distant
- Continuing to ask questions; over-analysing
- Retreating and becoming silent
- Thinking in doomsday scenarios
- Not daring to take risks, playing it safe
Stress in red behavioural style:
- Coming across as arrogant and blunt
- React impatiently
- Be easily irritated; have a short fuse
- Paying little attention to tact and diplomacy
- Listening insufficiently
- Taking decisions too quickly
- Unwillingness to admit mistakes and give up
- Black/white thinking
- Demanding too much of themselves and others
- Dictating and ordering others around
Stress in green behavioural style:
- Becoming indecisive
- Become inflexible
- Weighing and balancing; becoming doubtful
- Avoiding confrontation and adapting too easily to the other person
- Cold reactions
- Be stubborn and immovable
- Worry too much
- Becoming passive and silent
- Taking too much notice of others
- Dragging one’s heels
Stress in yellow behavioural style:
- Become chaotic and lose track of everything
- Start rattling and jumping from one thing to another
- Reacting hypersensitively and emotionally
- Rebellious and hypersensitive
- Becoming too involved with others
- Paying too little attention to details
- Becoming unrealistic
- Reacting impulsively and erratically
- Exaggerating
- Becoming too trusting
