Leadership and Life Essentials with Jacquie
Sep 7, 2026 · 12 min · 10 segments
A tight deadline lands and four people react four completely different ways, and none of it is random. Every DISC style has a pressure response, usually just their biggest strength turned up past the…
Can you picture this scenario? Four people are around a table, they're planning a project, when all of a sudden an email flashes across their screen.
One person starts firing off decisions before anyone else has even finished reading the email.
They know they can deal with this, so they just step up and exert control.
Another cracks a joke trying to relieve some of the tension that's descended like a summer haze.
Not sulking quite, just disconnected, arms crossed, eyes on the table, like they've mentally left the building.
About formatting details, budget adjustments, case studies that nobody else has even thought of yet.
The questions about the things that don't even seem to matter yet either.
Does this sound familiar? I've watched variations of this situation play out many times on leadership teams, nonprofit boards, other groups and teams.
But when we overuse a strength, it actually becomes a weakness or a challenge.
Can you picture this scenario? Four people are around a table, they're planning a project, when all of a sudden an email flashes across their screen.
One person starts firing off decisions before anyone else has even finished reading the email.
They know they can deal with this, so they just step up and exert control.
Another cracks a joke trying to relieve some of the tension that's descended like a summer haze.
Not sulking quite, just disconnected, arms crossed, eyes on the table, like they've mentally left the building.
About formatting details, budget adjustments, case studies that nobody else has even thought of yet.
The questions about the things that don't even seem to matter yet either.
Does this sound familiar? I've watched variations of this situation play out many times on leadership teams, nonprofit boards, other groups and teams.
But when we overuse a strength, it actually becomes a weakness or a challenge.
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