DISC for TEAMS
Improve Team Culture and Communication
Learn how DISC can support your team’s development and overall success – plus how you can start using assessments and profiles in your organization today.
Build Stronger Teams with DISC Basic
DISC is a personality model, with assessments and profiles that help an individual understand their behaviours, motivations and interactions with others.
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.
How DISC Identifies Team Dynamics
Every workplace has a unique atmosphere – whether quiet and focused, or energetic and lively.
DISC creates a clear picture that helps organizations understand and navigate their group culture.
The same DISC map that is used for individuals can be repurposed for groups. Our DISC assessments provide aggregated reports that help teams understand their workplace – and how to improve it.
Key Benefits of DISC for Teams
- Discover team strengths and weaknesses: Explain why a team excels at creative solutions but struggles with follow-through or attention to detail, for example.
- Improve communication dynamics: Understand distinct communication styles, keeping conversations productive across the organization’s personalities.
- Prevent and resolve conflict: Uncover the causes behind underlying frictions, such as when the team’s rapid decision-makers conflict with risk-averse planners.
DISC Basic Behavioral Tendencies Report
The DISC Basic team report provides a detailed graph of each individual team member’s scores for the behaviors that are scored during the assessment process.
The color coding gives teams an easy way to identify areas that might cause conflict when there isn’t a good mix of styles or when one style is overly dominant.
For example, if a team is full of people who prefer quick decisions over more thoughtful ones, this could cause friction.
Using 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 an ongoing process and discussion. DISC offers the language that helps explain stressors and motivational preferences within your team immediately.
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.
When teams go through a facilitated group workshop, they will not only have a chance to bond during the event while learning their DISC personality styles, but also gain a tool and language they can use throughout their workday.
Here are three 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
Additional Applications of DISC
DISC for Organizational Development
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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.
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.
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.
