Personal and Business Competencies / Personal Skills

Extended DISC - Communication and Team Collaboration Using Behavioral Analysis

Extended DISC is a tool for diagnosing organizations, teams and individual talents and predispositions of employees. Working with this model facilitates collaboration and communication in teams by identifying and understanding preferred, natural and situation-adapted behaviors of team members. The model is easy to learn and remember, allowing effective use in daily team collaboration. Extended DISC is based on a widely used model of human behaviors, is valid, reliable and standardized for Polish cultural conditions.

Issues

Extended DISC model and its practical application
Four behavioral styles and their characteristics
Individual and team report analysis
Behavioral style recognition techniques
Communication strategies with different styles
Team roles and their utilization
Diversity management in the team
Building trust and collaboration
Leveraging team strengths
Identifying and eliminating team weaknesses
Motivations and needs of different behavioral styles
Adapting management style to team needs

Benefits

Know and understand how to read and understand other people's behaviors in the team to support collaboration, communication and relationship building in the team.
Team members become aware of their talents and potential, which translates into more effective actions with less effort and energy expenditure.
They discover their own and each other's least comfortable and most comfortable behaviors, especially in areas related to communication and collaboration, which opens space for learning from each other.
They build trust in the team more easily through detailed behavior analysis, which becomes a canvas on which the team building process is based.
They identify and use team roles in business processes - their strengths and advantages, making task distribution in the team understandable and clear to everyone.
Team disputes and conflicts become constructive because they are based on goals and resources, not on destructive interpersonal games resulting from lack of knowledge about natural behaviors.
Managers know the intensity of individual styles in the team, and consequently can predict tendencies toward specific behaviors and reactions of team members.
They receive detailed information about which management styles are preferred by individual team members, enabling them to more accurately adjust their communication style, work organization, feedback and collaboration to each employee according to their needs.

Who is this training for?

Project and permanent team members

Managers managing teams

Newly formed team leaders

Leaders of teams with long operational history

HR and organizational development specialists

Consultants involved in team development

Business trainers and coaches

People responsible for building organizational culture

Prerequisites

Participation of all team members in Extended DISC questionnaire survey before the workshop
Basic knowledge of team functioning and group processes
Openness to learning about own behaviors and receiving feedback
Experience in teamwork or team management
Willingness to share experiences with other participants

Training program

Establishing common work rules, presenting work methods using the Extended DISC model, presenting workshop goals and individual needs of training participants
Principles of functioning in task teams for people with different behavioral styles
Key criteria for well-functioning teams
Diversity in the team as an asset in task execution

Extended DISC model discussion
Four behavioral styles - characteristics of potential and talents, indicating areas requiring more and less effort and energy in action
What is Extended DISC - briefly about basic model assumptions
What the questionnaire measures and does not measure

Getting acquainted with individual reports
Getting acquainted with team report

How to recognize behavioral styles in others
What is the preferred behavioral style of each team member and what it means for collaboration and communication
Team role identification - team role map, what each brings to the team
How to communicate with other styles, what to pay special attention to
Leveraging diversity strength - differences in motivations, action dynamics, decision-making, communication, relationship building, approach to collaboration and expectations of specific management style from one's supervisor

Team energy - team strengths and possibilities for their use
Potential pitfalls and behavior concentrations in the team - what to do so they don't block team action
What is missing in the team and how to compensate for these gaps
Where to start working on team potential
Summary and workshop conclusion

Delivery Methods

Online

Convenience of participating from anywhere
Interactive live sessions with trainer
Materials available for 30 days
No travel costs

On-site

Direct contact with trainer and group
Intensive hands-on workshops
Networking with other participants
Full focus on learning

Frequently asked questions

What are the prerequisites for this training?

For Extended DISC - Communication and Team Collaboration Using Behavioral Analysis we recommend: Participation of all team members in Extended DISC questionnaire survey before the workshop; Basic knowledge of team functioning and group processes; Openness to learning about own behaviors and receiving feedback.

What is the format and duration of this training?

The training lasts 1 day and is available in online and on-site format. Sessions run from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM. We can also customize the schedule to fit your team's needs.

Who is this training designed for?

This training is designed for: Project and permanent team members; Managers managing teams; Newly formed team leaders.