DiSC Training Exercise: Creating a Group Map

Here's another great DiSC training exercise you can incorporate into your next session.

If you use the DiSC Classic Paper Profile or the Online DiSC Classic 2.0 Profile, create a poster using handout 4-2 from the Everything DiSC Classic Facilitation System.

If you use the Everything DiSC Application Library Profiles, create the Poster Template from the Support Materials Folder on your USB drive.

Have each DiSC participant write their name on a sticky dot and place it where they're located on the DiSC map. This will provide a great visual of what the group’s DiSC styles are.

By looking at the DiSC Group Map, everyone can see that:

1. We all fall on different places of the DiSC map. Throughout your DiSC session you can teach participants how to adapt their natural style to meet the needs of others.
2. Even though some participants might be the same D, i, S or C style, we fall in different areas of the map. This really demonstrates that not all D’s are alike, not all i’s are alike, not all S’s are alike, and not all C’s are alike. There is diversity, even within the styles.
3. Learning more about DiSC will help participants learn how to work with people who have a variety of styles and preferences.
   

Additional DiSC Training Programs for Conflict Management

In our last post we discussed how to use Everything DiSC Classic to address conflict. Below we'll take a look at other DiSC profiles and training programs to consider.

idXready DiSC Conflict Management is a complete conflict management training program with facilitation materials, PowerPoint, video, and customizable workbooks. The scripted facilitation is broken into five 50-minute modules, which makes it easy to deliver the training in one day or over time.

Everything DiSC Management discusses how conflict affects the motivation of each of the DiSC styles, and Dealing with Conflict when working with your Manager.

Everything DiSC Workplace addresses "What To Do When Things Get Tense" within the profile and also on the back of the Everything DiSC Workplace Guides.

Use DiSC for Conflict Management

Many of our clients use DiSC training and coaching to address conflict management. The Everything DiSC Classic Facilitation System is a great resource that contains a number of ready-to-use, fully-scripted course outlines and participant handouts for conflict management and a variety of other applications.

The facilitation system includes the following training modules for conflict management:

• Managing Conflict and Resistance (Full-Day Seminar)
• Reducing Conflict (Full-Day Seminar)

Everything DiSC Classic is appropriate for trainers and coaches who use the following profiles:

* DiSC Classic Paper Profile
* Online DiSC Classic 2.0 Profile
* DiSC PPSS Online (General Characteristics Report)

Click to view a complete list of the training modules found in the Everything DiSC Classic Facilitation System.