We came up with 10 DISC Applications on how to use the Internationally trusted DISC Behavioral tool (published in 30 languages).
Introductory offer: One free DISC profile on yourself and someone you find “difficult” to work with and recommendations on how to improve communication challenges with them.
1. DISC Identification
- Application: Learning how to identify different styles and adapt your approach to increase your communication effectiveness
- Challenges it Solves:
- How to communicate with difficult people
- Choosing language to properly support/empower people
- Understanding your natural communication style and its impact on others
- Key Benefits:
- Learning two questions to ask yourself and 4 step model to follow over time can change your relationships
- Adapting to people in differing situations to improve relationships and outcomes
2. DISC and Sales and/or DISC and Customer Service
- Application: How to understand your customer’s DISC buying styles and how to adapt your DISC style to meet your customer’s needs.
- Challenges It Solves:
- How to effectively convince/persuade the various DISC styles
- Communicating and selling in your preferred vs the clients preferred style
- Stress created by not understanding and accepting all styles/cultures
- Key Benefits: Learn how to use the situationally appropriate language and approach to closes to decrease tension and increase closes and customer satisfaction
3. Understanding Your Natural Leadership Style
- Application: For new and existing managers to learn what leadership is all about and it touches on how all leaders must learn to bench their ego
- Challenges It Solves:
- Understanding how others really see your natural leadership style
- Know how to support/empower all behavior styles
- How to build teamwork using people’s individual strengths
- Key Benefits: Move from being a manager to a leader who truly supports and empowers people. Learning proven words to use to increase your leadership effectiveness
4. DISC & Culture and/or DISC and Global Stats
- Application: Common DISC profiles in various global regions; how regional cultures are impacted by DISC
- Challenges It Solves:
- Improved understanding and sensitivity to global cultural differences
- Culture-appropriate communications
- Key Benefits:
- Enhanced effectiveness of global teams; efficient communication
- Improved sales impact for global marketing organizations
5. DISC and Stress
- Application: How a person’s natural DISC style is a map for stress triggers and improved understanding of DISC can defuse stressful situations
- Challenges It Solves: Providing better personal understanding of the situations and people that create stress and how your reactions to them actually increase your stress level
- Key Benefits: Your stress can drop like a rock when you recognize stress patterns and triggers and take responsibility for creating it
6. DISC and Listening
- Application: How to understand the strengths and weaknesses of each profiles listening style.
- Challenges It Solves:
- Not understanding how each style listens
- Speaking to them in a way that does not work
- Giving instructions incorrectly
- Missed messages
- Key Benefits:
- You will stop expecting people to listen in a way they are not capable of. And you will stop labeling people good or bad listeners
- Prepare messages and written communication that fits their style
7. DISC and Interviewing
- Application: Using DISC to anticipate fit within teams and what non-verbal messages are being communicated
- Challenges It Solves:
- Not having a proven process to use to interview
- Not understanding behavioral strengths and weaknesses or what naturally people well
- Key Benefits:
- A 5-step proven interviewing model and how to see “hard wired traits” and decide if that fits what you need
- Improved success in hiring
8. DISC and Change or DISC and Continuous Improvement
- Application: How different personal styles react to change situations and how to make change work for your organization
- Challenges It Solves: Facilitating effective change and improvement programs by communicating effective directives based upon various styles’ propensity to receive these programs
- Key Benefits:
- A proven way to implement change based on your DISC population
- Less confusion, resistance and dissatisfaction with needed change initiatives; more effective improvement outcomes
9. Dealing with Difficult People
- Application: DISC reveals how people prefer to communicate and how a person responds.
- Challenges it Solves:
- Seeing who pushes your buttons and what you can do about it.
- Stop blaming and start changing your approach.
- Key Benefits: Secure the strategic partnership you need with people.
10. DISC and Ego
- Application: Understanding the nature of the Ego–which colors the way individuals perceive and respond to situations and other people. The DISC profile has a clear connection to one’s Ego and is a powerful means of understanding oneself and how to relate to others.
- Challenges it Solves: The need for raising personal awareness and recognizing and modulating situational behavioral responses; in dealing with stressful environments.
- Key Benefits: Improving communication and self-management, as well as improved stress mitigation and interpersonal skills.
Onsite DISC Activities
Difficult People Workshop
- Application: Can be with improv actors to make it Entertaining and Educational!
- Challenges It Solves:
- Clearly seeing who pushes your buttons and what you can do about it
- Stop blaming and start changing your approach
- Key Benefits: A highly fun interactive workshop with or without “improv” actors
DISC Lottery Game
- Application: A fun internal company “lottery game” that uses real company/client scenarios to train people on how to identify DISC profiles
- Challenges It Solves:
- Can decrease the complaining about customers and coworkers and start the process of one changing his/her approach
- Non-threatening way to get participation
- Key Benefits:
- Safe fun way to encourage all people to participate and win prizes (can be small fun things)
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