# color profile training **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 23, 2014, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/color-profile-training/686786 "2014-04-23T17:04:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sigene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@Sigene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigene)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/color-profile-training/686786/1 "2014-04-23T17:04:09Z")
My office may be participating in such a training, I think its optional for me. I don’t know what it is, but it might be a personality profile system like DiSC (whatever that is), Does anyone know what this is? and more importantly, how can I screw with the training and my results? ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/color-profile-training/686786/2 "2014-04-23T17:07:51Z")
[What Wikipedia says…](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_profile) Upon further review, I smell a whole lotta Bravo Sierra in your future. DiSC appears to be a Meyers-Briggs/Kiersy Temperament retread, per a different Wikipedia article I’ll leave to you. ---
**Author:** ![Sigene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@Sigene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigene)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/color-profile-training/686786/3 "2014-04-23T17:51:12Z")
I sense that too, I just would like to know something about what it is before I walk into the room (If i do so). ANd perhaps try to some inappropriate passive agressive protesting should I be inclined ---
**Author:** ![Raza](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raza/32/213_2.png) [@Raza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raza)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/color-profile-training/686786/4 "2014-04-23T18:06:19Z")
I was a participant in, and ultimately a giver of, the DiSC personality profile system back in the 80s (not as a marketer/consultant, but as an end-user). The majority of people who took the profile and had the results adequately explained to them found it useful, but YMMV. I think it has value, when used as intended, but it is probably no different than many other similar tools. If you want to skew your results, it will probably be fairly obvious how to do so from the questions/answer choices, but if you want specific tips, let me know. I’m an S/C. ---
**Author:** ![Heart\_of\_Dorkness](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/4bbf92/32.png) [@Heart\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heart_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/color-profile-training/686786/5 "2014-04-23T19:03:23Z")
Oh, heavens. I’m flashing back to a bad “Now, Discover Your Strengths” experience. It was right around then that I decided I needed to find another job. Anyway, here’s a long piece about various [“4-quadrant” personality tests](http://www.colorfulleadership.info/papers/4-quadrant.htm) (which… if there weren’t 4 of them, they wouldn’t be quadrants, would they?). DISC is fourth on the list. This guy tries to make a case for the usefulness of such tests, but cautions: > [@](#): > > These are not tools or for performance measurement, personal development or employee screening. … These tools are not validated for selecting particular people for particular jobs. Which is, of course, _exactly_ what they’re usually used for. For example, [this pdf](http://www.fitnessclubsuccess.com/FCS.Report.-.Team.Colors.pdf) tells fitness club owners exactly which “colors” will be best in which jobs: > [@](#): > > Now how does this relate to your management team? By identifying a person’s natural tendencies and comfort zones, you can match them up with roles which require specific strengths in specific areas. So, yeah. Have fun with that, and my condolences. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Woo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7c8e57/32.png) [@Dr.Woo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Woo)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/color-profile-training/686786/6 "2014-04-23T20:03:21Z")
Yeah, it’s some kind of Meyers-Briggs wannabe. I went through a seminar at some point, but my passive-aggressive eye-rolling score-skewing attitude ensured that I remember absolutely nothing of the experience. May you be as lucky. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/color-profile-training/686786/7 "2014-04-23T20:08:38Z")
Might as well hire and assign people based on their horoscopes or cookie fortunes. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/color-profile-training/686786/8 "2014-04-23T20:28:20Z")
Such typical “Green” people responses.