Participants walk through the framework of the DiSC® model and watch a video that introduces the model. They learn about their DiSC styles and discover and discuss personalized insights.

Goals:

• Learn about the DiSC model and the Everything DiSC® Map
• Identify your style and discover the insights it reveals

Participants learn about one another on the Catalyst™ platform. Working in pairs, participants look each other up on the “Your colleagues” page. They take a few minutes to view the pages and then chat one-on one about their continua and the impact these might have on their working relationship before optionally sharing out with the class. Finally, participants are directed to the tips available on the Colleague pages and encouraged to use them going forward.

Goals

• Use the Catalyst platform to learn about your colleagues and teammates
• Find new ways to work together

After an optional recap about DiSC®, participants learn how their workplace priorities affect their tendencies in the workplace and about what motivates and stresses them. They then brainstorm about the best and worst possible days in the life of their styles and share out with the large group. Finally, they review key strategies to improve their effectiveness and choose one to work on.

Goals

• Explore your workplace priorities
• See how you compare to other styles
• Consider ways to be more effective at work

After an optional recap about DiSC®, participants watch video segments featuring a team of four coworkers to learn about each DiSC style. Participants then identify a person they want to understand better so that they can work more effectively with them. They first read about that person’s style on the Catalyst™ platform and take notes on things they appreciate about the style and have realized about the style or person. They discuss their observations in small groups and then share out with the larger group.

Goals

• Use the DiSC model to understand the people you work with
• Understand your reaction to the different DiSC styles
• Gain insight into your relationship with a colleague based on their DiSC style

After an optional recap about DiSC®, participants learn personalized strategies for building a more effective relationship with one style of their choosing by reading their personalized tips, watching a video example, and having a small-group discussion. Then as a large group, participants discuss all four styles and consider how to use DiSC insights going forward.

Leading up Down and Across and Effectively Leading for Performance:

Goals

• Learn how others have bridged their differences using DiSC
• Practice using DiSC to build more effective relationships at work.

Participants consider how DiSC offers a simple idea that enables executives to identify many of the most important and basic behaviours, needs and priorities of those who manage them. In this module, participants learn how quickly recognize the styles of their managers and stakeholders and use their DiSC knowledge to help build more effective and meaningful connections with them.

After an optional recap about DiSC®, participants watch video segments featuring a team of four coworkers to learn about each DiSC style. Participants then identify a person they want to understand better so that they can work more effectively with them. They first read about that person’s style on the Catalyst™ platform and take notes on things they appreciate about the style and have realized about the style or person. They discuss their observations in small groups and then share out with the larger group.

Goals

• Understand the basic principles of people reading
• Identify the DiSC styles of managers based on behavioural cues
• Consider how you see yourself and how your manager might see you
• Working and connecting with the DiSC Styles managers

In this module, we explore leadership realities of a diverse workforce and shifting work culture that challenges emerging leaders. We aim to discuss and increase our understanding of the generational gaps that have widened in recent times, and the differences in working with the generations of boomers, X, Y and Millennials. Explore the alternatives to bridging the gaps.

In this module, we will explore and discuss the leadership attributes and essential skillsets to help us succeed in managing the performance of others and also leading others through pressures to achieve business outcomes. Participants will be introduced to principles for working with others to increase effectiveness and collaboration. These principles serve as a basis for building trust and mutual respect for others, especially in high-pressure work conditions. Effective use of these principles strengthens leadership skills and addresses areas for improvement in behaviors and actions.

In this module, we will discuss the important aspect of managing the performance of others. As managers, supervisors or team-leads, we often converse with subordinates about their commitments and performance. We will consider several factors that affect the workforce culture and landscape today. The value of coaching in our current younger workforce and learning the steps to plan and conduct coaching conversations with people we manage. The different types of coaching conversations for performance issues.

In this module, we learn the purpose of offering rewards and recognition that support competence, strengthen relationships and encourage internal motivation in others. Participants learn the difference between rewards and recognition and the appropriate way of providing rewards and recognition that foster employee motivation and sustain motivation by helping employees identify their own contributions.

In this module, participants will learn to identify and highlight a situation and need for team collaboration. There will be an opportunity to draft an opening statement to engage the commitment of others, recognize and identify team members’ strengths that contributed to past success and communicate assurance to members of their contribution toward success, to move the team forward by exploring ideas shared identifying workable solutions and planning appropriate actions to take as a team.