DISC For Leaders
Leadership Strategies | 360 Feedback | Coaching
Improve your leadership skills with DISC.
One of the more interesting aspects of teamwork is the relationship between the team and its leader. We have worked with many teams where the leader and the team meshed really well. To no surprise, we found that the team’s behavioral styles matched the leader’s DISC Profile.
Alternatively, when there were dysfunctions, we found wide gaps between the leader’s and the team’s behavioral styles.
Of course, we have also worked with teams where there was a wide behavioral gap between the team and the leader’s style, and little to no dysfunction. On these teams, there was a singular reason why they didn’t fall into dysfunction: self-awareness.
To help leaders develop more self-awareness around how their behaviors impact the team around them, we utilized two tools:
This two-pronged approach allows leaders to receive anonymous feedback on how they are perceived, and, using the DISC Leadership report, we can showcase how their behavioral style influences their decisions and the environment on their team. The results of this type of program have shown to reduce employee turnover, resolve team tension and conflict, while also helping leaders improve how they communicate with their team.
DISC for Leaders is a self-assessment tool that helps leaders develop their self-awareness and ability to communicate.
The insights from DISC help a leader become more self-aware of their behavioral strengths and how leaning on these strengths can become their weaknesses. Leaders can use insights as they manage, strategize, and grow their organization or team.
Once a leader learns their style DISC, it becomes another language that they can use to describe their perspective or decision. DISC will help any leader learn how to better:
- Collaborate
- Communicate more effectively
- Adapt their responses in any social situation
These soft skills are frequently cited within the top five soft skills required for leaders.
Purchase DISC Basic for Leaders:
After you complete your purchase through our online store, you will receive an email with unique access codes for each assessment you purchased along with a link to complete the assessment.
Assessment access codes can only be used one time. Please ensure that your access codes are never shared with anyone other than the individual who should be taking the assessment.
Looking for more control over managing your assessments? Consider opening an Online Personality Assessment account.
Quantity Prices per Assessment
| Quantity | Price Per Profile |
|---|---|
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1 – 15 |
$69.50/each |
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16 – 30 |
$67.25/each |
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31 – 50 |
$65.00/each |
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51 – 100 |
$62.25/each |
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100+ |
$57.25/each |
This assessment receives quantity-based discounts when purchased at larger volumes. The chart above provides the per assessment price you will receive based on the quantity purchased at time of checkout.
How DISC Improves Leadership Skills
When a person completes a DISC Leadership assessment they will answer 26 questions about their own behaviors. During the assessment, they will identify their preferred responses to different situations.
Once a person completes their DISC assessment, they will receive their DISC Personality Type. A person will typically identify with one of the four DISC styles.
The styles are:
- D – Dominance: Assertive, Results-Oriented, Seeks out challenges
- I – Influence: Outgoing, Persuasive, Optimistic, People-oriented
- S – Steadiness: Patient, Seeks stability, prefers working at a steady, even pace
- C – Conscientious: Prefers to work with facts, Accurate, Seeks structure at work & life
Now, imagine a person who leads a team of programmers, and who has a C-Style.
They have progressed to their leadership position because they completed their projects accurately and with incredible quality. They stick to facts and prefer to work alone which has allowed them to produce outstanding work.
Now, while their ability to work with accuracy and precision helped them become a leader of their team, these skill sets might limit the range of behaviors they will need to use as a leader.
Their leadership position requires them to adapt and use responses that might feel unnatural or uncomfortable. As an example,
- They might be required to go to events that require them to socialize with clients or prospective clients.
- They might need to keep their team on task and on schedule.
- They might need to support an employee who is dealing with a workplace or personal issue.
If they approach all of these new situations with the same mentality that they approached their job as a programmer, they won’t succeed as a leader.
Fortunately, DISC can help them understand their natural responses and how to adapt them to match the person they are interacting with.
Admin Accounts for Organizations
If you are a coach, facilitator, or HR Professional looking to utilize DISC Basic Leadership assessments, our administrator account gives you complete control over issuing assessments and downloading results.
DISC Research Report
Unlike other DISC assessments, DISC Basic is researched for validity and reliability through the third-party research firm, Assessment Standards Institute.
Many assessment providers will validate their products through an internal research process. While this process is standard practice within the industry, DISC Basic goes the extra mile to ensure that our tools effect.
DISC Leadership Sample Report
The DISC Leadership report is a 52-page report that is produced once a person completes their leadership assessment. This report covers the following topics:
- How to understand yourself through DISC
- Understanding how DISC Works
- Understanding others and how to adapt to improve communication and other leadership applications