Develop your team with a NoLimits Extended DISC programme

One Day NoLimits Extended DISC Workshop

Why the Extended DISC

The Extended DISC personality profiling tool is one of the most widely used personality tools in the corporate world. The tool identifies preferred behaviour styles for individuals and helps us build on our own strengths and well as identifying how we may need to adapt to work with different styles.
The Extended DISC has several characteristics that clearly distinguish it from other personality indicators:

• Describes and then prescribes, with clear indications of how to adapt for success
• Pinpoints preferences, strengths and opportunities to develop.
• Puts all preferences on equal standing.
• Provides a framework to understand human behaviour.
• Refrains from making judgements.
• What is the Extended DISC?

The Extended DISC facilitates the process of feedback and coaching for leaders and teams as it enhances self-awareness in an appreciative way. Not only do participants gain self-insight, they better understand each others' preferences, which is important in a highly collaborative environment. The Extended DISC also shows how differences are important and can actually enhance a team's success.

What is Extended DISC

• Self-report questionnaire.
• Designed to make Jung’s theory of psychological types understandable and useful in everyday life.
• Results identify patterns of difference in normal healthy individuals.
• Gives reasons why people behave differently and in the way that they prefer to operate.
• Helps individuals and groups to make constructive use of these differences in promoting understanding and effective co-operation.
• Helps individuals identify their unique gifts.
• Enhances self-understanding, motivations, strengths and potential areas of growth.
• Provides a framework for self development and development action planning.
• Maps competencies for specific capabilities and reports are available to predict strengths and opportunities for different roles.

The Extended DISC instrument is a useful assessment tool when its results are effectively applied in the  workplace. The results facilitate learning and lead to more successful communication and problem solving.

The Extended DISC is a real success when it is applied to daily situations such as relationship building, enhancing communication, customer services, sales, leadership, project management, personal and professional development and team building.

The Extended DISC personality inventory enhances relationships, teams and leadership by:

• Increasing self awareness and awareness of others.
• Adapting personal styles to other styles to enhance productivity, efficiencies and collaboration.
• Building high performance teams through greater focus on individual strengths, preferences and tolerance for other styles.
• Leveraging talents and marketing individual and team strengths.

Resolving conflict because of greater understanding and awareness of other people’s preferences.
Boosting self esteem and confidence by understanding more about your own personality and preferences.
Helping embrace differences in the workplace, rather than having one ‘style’ corporate mentality.

One Day Extended DISC Team Based Professional and Personal Development

NoLimits facilitates an interactive workshop where participants learn about the Extended DISC tool and their own preferences.  We engage participants in experiential and fun learning exercises to demonstrate the reality of these preferences in action and to embed their learning of this valuable psychological tool.

This full day workshop focuses on self awareness and awareness of other personality styles specifically in relation to different styles in communication and collaboration.

Group Profiles

We also assess the combined personality traits of the members of the whole team by demonstrating this in a chart and discussing the implications of the preferred styles. When we provide overall team profile assessments for teams and organisations this added, tailored dimension allows organisations to assess and offer solutions to:

• Where the team is now, where it wants to be and what else it needs to consider.
• ‘Alert areas’ where the team may not be diverse or mixed enough.
• Patterns where line managers recruit ‘similar to me’ employees or where there seems to be an unequal balance of specific types.
• Areas where individuals with minority personality types may feel uneasy in the team or organisation.
• Thinking and working patterns that may result in ‘one-way’ rather than multi-dimensional thinking and working.

Examples of Group Exercises:

• Valuing Differences – groups to be separated into different personality types and brainstorm the advantages and disadvantages of the other types’ styles.
• Demonstrating Preferences – exercise to demonstrate the different thinking patterns of the different types.
• Decision Making – an interview ‘fishbowl’ exercise where two different types interview one another.
• Problem Solving – participants are given a task e.g. design an employee recognition scheme and the differences in problem solving styles are highlighted.
• Communication – different group types are asked to describe what they perceive as good communication and how they like to be communicated with.
• Management – different types are split into groups to discuss and present how they like to be managed.
• Managing Time – a group exercise to demonstrate the differences on how people perceive time.

Workshop Preparation

Five working days prior to the workshop participants will complete an online Extended DISC questionnaire and will receive their tailored individual reports during the workshop.

The report used is the detailed NoLimits Extended DISC report with a selection of role relevant capability reports. This capability report additionally analyses and explains the underlying drivers of each individual’s preferences and helps understand their characteristics and personality traits that are unique to them for a given role. This creates the opportunity for personal development planning and powerful development discussions with an individual’s leader, or team.

Team Extended DISC profiles can be prepared for all participants. If required profiles can be prepared for sub-groups within the participants, e.g. Regional teams, market level teams, functional teams. This will aid the participants in identifying behavioural preferences for other teams and groups amongst the participants. These team reports can be used in a separate workshop to define and map ‘profiles for success’ for a given role or team, please call for more information on these team development opportunities.

Workshop Outline

Timings
Morning session 9.00am – 1.00pm
Afternoon session 2.00pm – 5.00pm

Workshop Agenda

• Introductions, agenda and workshop objectives.
• Presentation and discussion on the Extended DISC tool with an experiential learning process.
• Review and interpretation of individual reports.
• Review of team profiles and team communication styles.
• Practical exercises to identify the reality of different profiles in action: The exercises are selected based on the styles of the participants on the workshop; participants are placed in different groups based on Extended DISC profiles and undertake tasks that are particular suited to certain profiles and not others.
• Facilitated discussion of the outcomes of the exercises to identify the different styles observed.
• Options for the afternoon session:
• Breakout sessions in groups based on Extended DISC profiles to identify preferred styles in communication and collaboration and role capability with report back and discussion of outcomes; or
• Review of the objectives of the team and the ways in which each type can contribute to, or hinder, teamwork and a facilitated process to agree behaviours that will support the team’s success.
• Personal action planning by each individual.
• Wrap up.

A no obligation discussion

Please call our email Sandra Lai for a no obligation discussion on how your team can be transformed sandralai@nolimitsasia.com +65 6232 2466