DISC Basic™ Certification
12-16 Hours | Online | $1,995
What is DISC Certification?
DISC Certification is designed to help anyone build confidence and experience in how to use DISC assessments in a training or coaching capacity.
The course is 100% virtual.
The course combines self-paced learning with live virtual sessions designed to mimic a face-to-face classroom. Total time commitment is 12-16 hours, including 8 hours of live, virtual classroom participation.
DISC Certification is a training course for coaches, consultants, and adult learning practitioners focused on leadership development, management training, coaching, organizational culture, or sales enablement.
Benefits of DISC Certification
Becoming DISC Certified provides a recognized credential, along with practical, hands-on experience running a DISC Workshop that can help transform culture, improve leadership, and teach foundational communication skills.
This course offers Professional Development Credits (PDCs) and Continuing Education Credits (CEUs) for the Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM), the Association for Talent Development (ATD), the International Coaching Federation (ICF), and more!
Who is DISC Certification For?
If you are a consultant, coach, human resources, or learning & development professional, this course is for you.
However, if you are a team leader looking for a DISC Training program, please check out our DISC Training offering to explore how a DISC Certified professional can bring DISC to your workplace.
During the DISC Certification course, learners will gain:
- Deep expertise in the DISC assessment model, research, principles, and applications
- Confidence in deploying DISC-based culture, team strategies, DISC Basic reports, and more
- The ability to deliver workshops, coaching sessions, and navigate challenges as a trainer or practitioner
- The power to help teams and individuals navigate and strengthen personal and/or workplace relationships
- Ongoing professional development opportunities, adding value to businesses and teams
Upon successful completion of the course, learners will receive the credential of Certified DISC Trainer – an asset for any HR professional, coach, or manager of people.
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DISC Certification Cost
DISC Basic Certification includes:
- The DISC Certification Course (12-16 hours)
- Access to training and coaching materials and activities for use post-certification ($1,295 value)
- Your personal DISC Admin account for issuing DISC Assessments ($95 value)
- 10 Free DISC Basic Assessments ($590 value)
Earn Professional Development Credits
the ROI of DISC Certification
DISC Certification can quickly pay for itself, whether you’re building internal capability or offering DISC services to clients.
A professionally facilitated half-day DISC workshop typically costs $2,000 to $5,000, depending on the audience, location, and level of customization. Virtual DISC Workshops generally start around $1,000 for a 2-hour session.
For organizations planning to introduce DISC across multiple teams or hundreds of employees, developing an in-house certified facilitator can significantly reduce ongoing training costs.
For coaches and consultants, facilitating just one or two paid DISC workshops can often cover the cost of becoming DISC Certified.
What Does DISC Certification Teach?
During DISC Certification, participants will build a foundation of knowledge in the DISC model, research, and theory. The course covers the following topics:
Using DISC in a coaching capacity is one of its primary applications.
Many individuals who seek coaching support are dealing with interpersonal issues or workplace misalignment. DISC offers support for both areas. DISC Certification offers an opportunity to practice using this tool to effectively coach someone to learn their behavioral and psychological needs.
DISC Certification will prepare you to learn how the 12 DISC Personality Types communicate and interact. With this knowledge, you will understand why communication issues occur and how you can help your participants overcome interpersonal issues.
DISC has helped thousands of organizations improve their organizational culture because the tool focuses on self-awareness and on recognizing others’ needs and stressors. DISC Certification teaches you how to bring these concepts to life through the facilitated workshop program around:
- Leadership and DISC
- Adaptability and DISC
- Building effective Teams and DISC
We believe DISC can and should be used across the whole organization. However, DISC is a very useful tool for developing leaders and their ability to communicate, direct, and delegate. DISC Certification will showcase how you can use the tool to coach leaders to reach their full potential and overcome interpersonal issues.
Two-Week Certification Format
This course runs two consecutive weeks with two live, instructor-led classes each week. Its imperrative you are able to attend all of the classes as they are built to be engaging where you will interact with other classmates.
Sample schedule below:
Are there different Certification Levels or Specializations?
There is only one level of DISC Certification. Everyone who completes this course will receive the designation of DISC Certified Trainer.
However, we also offer certification courses for Emotional Intelligence (EIQ) and Motivators. Upon completing each course, participants will receive the designation of Certified Emotional Intelligence Coach and Motivators Coach.
This certification course does not allow you to certify other practitioners. Contact us if you are interested in certifying other practitioners.
Upcoming Course Dates
Online coursework opens Thursday, October 29th.
- Orientation: Thursday, 10/29, 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm ET
- Session One: Tuesday, 11/3, 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm ET
- Session Two: Thursday, 11/5, 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm ET
- Session Three: Tuesday, 11/10, 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm ET
- Session Four: Thursday, 11/12, 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm ET
Online coursework opens Thursday, January 14th.
- Orientation: Thursday, 1/14, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm ET
- Session One: Tuesday, 1/19, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm ET
- Session Two: Thursday, 1/21, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm ET
- Session Three: Tuesday, 1/26, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm ET
- Session Four: Thursday, 1/28, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm ET
Looking to certify your entire HR/L&D team? We offer private certification classes for groups of 6 or more participants.*
Private courses can be run online, following the same structure as our public course. Email us for more information.
What's included with DISC Certification?
DISC Basic Certification includes 12-16 hours of coursework. Beyond the course content, you will also receive access to facilitation materials, DISC assessments, and access to our Online Personality Administration platform.
DISC Trainer Materials
Included in your registration fee is access to DISC activities, handouts, videos and PowerPoints. You will receive access to hours of training materials that you can use to build custom programs that fit the goals of your DISC Workshop. These materials will focus on leadership development, self-awareness, professional development, and team building. There are debriefing guides that you can use for guided or peer coaching.
10 DISC Basic Assessments
Your registration fee includes 10 DISC Basic assessments that you can use immediately. Additional assessments can be purchased based on volume pricing. Email our support team for questions around enterprise, university/education, and non-profit pricing.
DISC Certification Support Team
We have trained, developed, and learned from DISC since 1986. Each year, over 200 trainers, coaches, and internal facilitators are certified through our organization. We are a small team, but we hope we have a big impact with how these tools work within your organization!
Personality Assessment Admin Platform
Included in the cost of certification is access to our Personality Assessment Administration Platform. This system gives you access to DISC, EIQ, Motivators, and Learning Styles assessments. We approach professional development holistically and believe that to better understand ourselves and each other, we need to lean on a variety of tools.
Professional Development Credits
We've partnered with professional accreditation agencies like SHRM to give CEUs for your accreditations. Get re-certification credits for SHRM, ATD, ICF, and more!
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DISC Certification FAQ
DISC Certification is designed to help anyone who plans to teach or coach using DISC. Frequently, our class includes:
- Trainers
- Coaches
- Consultants
- Learning & Development professionals
- HR Directors/Vice Presidents/Partners
This class is designed for both internal and external learning practitioners.
If you are a Team Leader, Manager, or Executive that wants to bring DISC to your organization, check out our DISC Training Workshop page. You can schedule a DISC Workshop with a certified DISC Practitioner for both virtual and in-person workshops.
No!
This course will be instructive for both experienced HR and Talent Development professionals and individuals who are just starting their careers.
Our cohort class model allows you to connect with other professionals and gives you a chance from your peers along with the content during the course.
This course is a live, instructor-led, virtual course.
There are 5 live classes, four of which are required to pass the course. Below is a list of the requirements for each session during the course:
- Orientation (optional, but recommended)
- Length: 45 minutes
- Live Session 1 (Required)
- Length: 2 Hours
- Live Session 2 (Required)
- Length: 2 Hours
- Live Session 3 (Required)
- Length 2 Hours
- Live Session 4 (Required)
- Length 2 Hours
This course includes 12-16 hours of content. The timing depends on how long it takes you complete the self-paced work.
Course participants rate this course 4.8 out of 5 (96% satisfaction rating).
We have learned that participants find immense value in experiencing parts of the coaching and workshop programs and in having the time, space, and mentorship to put together their own DISC program or workshop.
Course survey comments indicate that participants have a clear understanding of how to use the tool and feel prepared to use it right away.
We believe, based on this survey feedback, that the course is worth both your time and financial investment.
No! Certification is not required to teach DISC.
Anyone who wants to start using DISC can visit our online store to purchase assessments or open an administration account.
This DISC Certification course is for anyone who wants a guided course to learn the foundations of DISC. It's also perfect for someone who is new to training. This course will help you learn concepts around coaching and teaching DISC for self-development, professional development, leadership development, and team building.
This course teaches learners how to use the DISC Basic assessment.
This course does not teach Everything DiSC (lower case i), Extended DISC, People Keys, or other DISC Assessment courses.
Our tool is the only DISC tool validated by the third-party Assessment Standards Institute.
Yes!
You will receive your own personal assessment as part of this course. You will also receive 10 DISC Basic assessment credits as part of your certification registration fee. After you have used all 10 of those assessments, the assessments are sold based on quantity.
No!
Certification is not required to teach DISC. As your DISC vendor, we will provide you support to ensure that you know how to use the assessment and implement your training program succesfully.
DISC Certification costs $1,995 and includes 10 Free assessments, an admin account, and training materials.
There are no hidden fees with this program!
The price for this course includes:
- Access to the DISC Certification online learning center for pre-work and self-paced work.
- Access to professional development credits (upon finishing the coursework)
- Access to 10 DISC Basic Full Assessments
- An administrator account
- Facilitation materials for each DISC Basic Program
No!
Once you are certified, there is no requirement to continue education or a need to retest your knowledge.
Yes!
This course includes the ability to claim the following PDCs and CEUS:
- SHRM: 12 Credits
- HRCI: 10 Credits
- ATD: 10 Credits
- ICF: 5.25 Core Credits / 12.5 RD ICF Credits
This course is designed to be a practical class that will equip you to lead changes within your organization around leadership development, organizational development, team development, and manager development.
After you complete the course, you will have access to facilitation materials to lead team or leadership workshops that will help individuals understand their behavioral tendencies and how those tendencies show up in their communication.
Our team takes an active involvement after certification by running train-the-trainers, support, and onboarding calls to ensure you have all of the support you need to use these tools.
As technology and concepts evolve, we will enable you to test new products. Our practitioner community is designed to share knowledge and form connections with other practitioners.
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DISC Certification Cancellation Policy
Cancellations or substitutions must be made at least seven calendar days prior to your first live session. Cancellations made less than seven days before orientation will not be eligible for a refund.
We do our best to accommodate changing schedules. If you discover that you are unable to make your required session dates, please contact us at least two days prior to your orientation to switch courses. Course changes made less than two days in advance will be charged a $275 course change fee.
We reserve the right to cancel this course at any time. Should this occur, you will be offered a seat in a future class or a refund for the cost of the sessions.
Please call us if you have any questions or concerns about our cancellation policy.