Week 5 Journal

Journal Entry

According to Bierema (2020), there are three (3) different types of OD consultants (1)

internal or external consultants, (2) management consultants, (3) and managers who apply OD to

their own functional areas (Ch. 1.3). After completing the DISC Personality Test, my results

reflected 40% dominance, 29% compliance, 23% steadiness, and 9% influence. Dominance

describes the way that I deal with problems, assert myself and control situations. Compliance

describes how I approach and organize activities, procedures and responsibilities. Steadiness

describes my patience, persistence, and thoughtfulness. Influence describes the way that I deal

with people, communicate and relate to others. I believe that the test results were somewhat

accurate. Overall, I believe that it would be vital and beneficial to improve and increase these

percentages as these traits are important to facilitate the responsibility of an OD consultant.

Although dominance, compliance, steadiness and influence are critical factors to the role

of an OD consultant, I believe that some of the skills that I have that would apply to the role of

an OD consultant. Some of those skills consist of active listening skills, attentiveness,

confidence, empathy, and leadership. Active listening applies to the role of an OD consultant as

active listening builds strong relationships and would allow me to critically understand the

feelings, thoughts and concerns of a team. Being and practicing activeness would allow me to

pay attention to critical details within the organization; such as monitoring how managers

interact and communicate with their team. Confidence would display a positive attitude towards

leading a team and organization. Empathy would enable me to recognize and understand the

feelings and emotions of others. Lastly, leadership as leader takes initiative to do things that will

be beneficial to and for the team as a whole.