Nature has always depended on self-correction. Consider a tree. A tree doesn't simply grow. It continually responds to its environment. Its roots respond to gravity and available resources. Its leaves respond to light. Its stomata regulate exchanges with the atmosphere. When environmental conditions change, the tree uses feedback mechanisms to make adjustments that help sustain growth. The tree has no Developmental Credit Score™. But it does have something DCS helped us recognize in people: a Self-Correction System™.

Human beings self-correct too. Every day we respond to circumstances, pressure, relationships, information, technology, opportunities and setbacks. We adjust our decisions and behavior based on what our environment demands from us. But unlike the tree, our environments can compete for control of the very system we use to correct ourselves. Today's psychosocial environments expose us to more information, influence and developmental resources than ever before, while simultaneously creating unprecedented competition for our time, attention and decisions.

That creates a critical question: What has your Self-Correction System been conditioned to do under pressure? When our lifestyle becomes conditioned to respond primarily to problems, pressure and immediate demands, self-correction can become a Crisis Management lifestyle. We may still adjust. We may still recover. We may still solve problems. But much of that correction can occur from a place of developmental weakness.

Purpose Management™ represents a different operating condition. It strengthens our relationship with the developmental resources needed to make meaningful adjustments before circumstances have to force them. That realization led the Purpose Development Institute to study the patterns underneath how people respond to developmental demands and use developmental resources under pressure. We call what those patterns reveal Growth Data Under Pressure™.

Those patterns eventually led to the Developmental Credit Score™ (DCS) — a relationship metric designed to measure the health of your Self-Correction System and help identify whether you are operating primarily in Crisis Management or Purpose Management™.

DCS gives you a starting point. Purpose Fit Skills™ strengthens what happens next. Purpose Fit Skills provides Decision Performance training designed to strengthen your Heart for Change, help you Change Decisions, Show Up as an Agent of Change, and Audit the Change occurring in your life. Together, they create a developmental relationship: DCS helps you see the health of your Self-Correction System. Purpose Fit Skills helps you strengthen it. The goal is bigger than getting a better score. It is learning to self-correct from a place of strength so Purpose Management becomes a lifestyle. 

Change your relationship with Purpose Development by joining the next live webinar or scheduling a one-on-one DCS scoring session.