Profiling and Team Development
I am accredited to use the DISC profiling tool – a wonderful tool to help increase self-awareness / emotional intelligence and consider how you can improve the way you communicate and work with others. This can be used as part of an individual coaching programme or as part of a team development programme - for senior leadership teams or across your whole organisation.
DISC is a really powerful way of considering an individual’s ‘go to’ behaviour and communication preferences / style. It helps us to hold up a mirror and consider ourselves and then, consider others in our team, stakeholders and donors.
We may not see ‘eye to eye’ with everyone we work with and DISC helps us to realise that rather than having a moan, or hoping others will change, we can take control and adjust our behaviour and our communication to work more effectively with other individuals or to be more effective in the work we are responsible for. It also helps us to realise how valuable it can be when there are people in a team with different styles and approaches.
We may not see ‘eye to eye’ with everyone we work with and DISC helps us to realise that rather than having a moan, or hoping others will change, we can take control and adjust our behaviour and our communication to work more effectively with other individuals or to be more effective in the work we are responsible for. It also helps us to realise how valuable it can be when there are people in a team with different styles and approaches.
There are also great benefits to using DISC as a leadership or team development tool. DISC helps us to consider everyone’s strengths and what they bring to the team. It aids us to adjust our behaviour, for example, to see that more reserved members of the team who need more time to reflect, are given more time to consider issues and give their input. It could also, for example, help a team who all have tendency to be more focused on the bigger picture to be more focused on detail or a team with greater tendency to be more task focused to be more focused on people than they might naturally be inclined to be.
DISC is great alongside coaching; increased self-awareness and emotional intelligence can help us to set goals individually or as a team, leading to more effective and productive work and improved outcomes and impact for your charity.
I often ask coaching clients to complete a DISC profile as it helps me to understand them better and tailor my approach.
In addition, I love delivering team away days or half day workshops based on DISC, effective communication and teamwork.
