Team Building: TB 100 – Why Isn’t Everyone More Like Me?

Overview

This highly experiential and interactive 1/2 – 1-day course excites, challenges, and guides participants through the three phases of the DiSC Profile interwoven with a series of exercises that help them build high-performing teams and sustain team excellence. Participants gain insight into their own behavioral preferences and engages their thinking in how to be more effective with others.

Learning Outcomes

After completing this course, participants will be able to:

• Increase their self-knowledge: how they respond to stress, pressure and conflict, what motivates them, what causes them stress and how they tend to solve problems.

• Improve working relationships by recognizing the needs and preferences of team members.

• Facilitate better teamwork and minimize team conflict.

• Manage more effectively by understanding the dispositions and priorities of employees and team members.

Course Topics

An Introduction to High-Performing Teams

• Groups versus teams.

• Hierarchy.

• High-performing teams.

Behavioral Preferences

• Dominance – Person places emphasis on accomplishing results, the bottom line, confidence.

• Influence – Person places emphasis on influencing or persuading others, openness, relationships.

• Steadiness – Person places emphasis on cooperation, sincerity, dependability.

• Conscientiousness – Person places emphasis on quality and accuracy, expertise, competency.

My Leadership Style and Team Communication

• Integrated activities throughout the DiSC’s three phases to enhance:

  • Self-awareness and effective communication.

  • Functions of team dynamics.

  • Knowledge and power of diverse teams.

  • Effective leadership and supportive followership.