DISC for TEAMS
Improve Team Culture and Communication
Build Stronger Teams with DISC Basic
DISC Basic™ leverages individual insights to help teams and organizations improve communication, collaboration, and culture. This report offers detailed information about the needs, motivations, and preferences of individual team members.
Team leaders, coaches, and facilitators can utilize Team Insights and group reports to survey stressors and dynamics within a group to help teams learn and value each other’s differences.
While DISC reports are useful on their own, organizations who pair these tools with facilitator-led DISC Training are often more successful in building a language of DISC to promote individual needs and to learn when and how to adapt to other team members’ behavioral needs.
How DISC Identifies Team Dynamics
Think back to a time when you started a new job. What was your first impression of your new team’s atmosphere and culture?
Was it quiet, like a library? Energetic and lively? Perhaps you didn’t take notice at first, but you recognized that you meshed with your team over time. Alternatively, maybe there were issues you felt could never be resolved because you felt so different from everyone on the team.
DISC offers a picture that helps teams and organizations understand the culture of a group.
The same DISC map that is used for individuals can be repurposed for groups. Our DISC assessments provide aggregated reports that help teams understand the culture.
DISC can tell a story about a team that is great at offering dynamic solutions, but has poor follow-through or misses details. It can explain why some teams are always talking, while others hardly speak a word to each other. The insights work for both individuals and groups because the model’s simplicity allows for a dual representation.
Digging deeper into the data, you can leverage the insights to understand why conflict might arise on a team when two conflicting behaviors are present.
For example, DISC can help teams understand which members prefer to make decisions quickly, with little planning or consideration of all the risks. This behavioral tendency can cause rifts on teams when team members are at odds with the team leader in terms of their behavioral tendency or when groups are empowered to make their own decisions, and they have different priorities when it comes to making a decision.
DISC Basic Behavioral Tendencies Report
The DISC Basic team report provides a detailed graph of each individual team members scores for the behaviors that are scored during the assessment process. The color coding can provide teams an easy way to find areas that might cause conflict when there isn’t a good mix of styles or an extreme sorting of styles.
Applying DISC Results in the Workplace
There are several ways to leverage DISC insights in the workplace to improve how teams operate: Team Development, Leadership Development, and Organizational Development.
Team Development
Building a collaborative culture requires going from a one-time event to an ongoing process and discussion. DISC offers a language that helps explain stressors and motivational preferences immediately.
When teams go through a facilitated group workshop, they will not only have a chance to bond during the event, but also gain a tool and language they can use throughout their workday.
Here are two ways to get started with using DISC for team development:
- 2-Hour Introductory Team DISC Workshop
- DISC Basic Full Report (one per individual team member)
- DISC Basic Group Report
DISC For Teams: Frequently Asked Questions
Reliability seeks to understand whether, if someone takes an assessment multiple times, they will get the same result. Our DISC Research has shown that these tools are highly reliable.
When using DISC with teams, you can trust that the results you receive won’t drastically change if someone takes the assessment again.
Miscommunication is one of the greatest issues in any workplace. DISC primarily focuses on helping people communicate better by understanding their motivations and stressors. When we communicate, these needs merge into everything we discuss. With DISC, we can develop greater self-awareness of these needs and start to see how they manifest as we work together as a team.
Compared to tools like StrengthsFinder or MBTI, DISC is primarily used for workplace development and for team and organization development.
Like any tool, DISC is only as good as its implementation plan.
We strongly suggest using DISC within a facilitated experience. When you work with a facilitator, they can ensure the insights are learned. Additionally, they can bring other topic areas like sales, management, productivity, or leadership curriculum into the DISC workshop to expand the experience into a holistic program.
Additional Applications of DISC
DISC for Organizational Development
Help your organization apply DISC results across various teams, divisions, and locations. Join our DISC Certification course open admin account
DISC for Leadership Development
Leaders and Managers in organizations are often overlooked for soft-skills development. DISC for Leaders helps people-managers adapt their leadership style to fit the varying needs of those they manage.
Reliability and Validity
DISC Basic assessments are all researched for reliability and validity. They undergo a 10,000-person research study conducted by a third-party organization unaffiliated with our organization to ensure accuracy and quality. Assessments Standards Institute (ASI) validates many assessment products each year, and we are proud to work with them to ensure we are bringing the best and most accurate products to our customers.
Purchase DISC Reports for Teams
We recommend the following DISC Basic reports for team development to improve group culture. Consider adding a facilitator-led training for better adoption and understanding of DISC.
