Everything DiSC Work of Leaders
Everything DiSC Work of Leaders® lays out a clear path for helping leaders at all levels make the connection between their DiSC® style and leadership. Bringing together best practices from 300 experts in over 150 organizations, the important work of the most prominent scholars, and over four years of additional research and development, this all-inclusive classroom and online program approaches leadership as a one-to-many relationship (as opposed to the one-to-one relationship explored in Everything DiSC Management).
With one unified model of leadership—vision, alignment, and execution—it focuses on helping leaders understand their own leadership styles and how their tendencies influence their effectiveness in specific leadership situations.
The Work of Leaders programme is most effective when used as part of a facilitated workshop. Facilitation kits are available with all you need to run these yourself, or we would be delighted to discuss how we can work with you. Contact us for more information.
How is Work of Leaders different from other DiSC profiles?
Unlike other DiSC reports, which emphasise understanding between people. Work of Leaders focuses on understanding how your tendencies influence your effectiveness in specific leadership situations.
Uses & benefits of Everything DiSC Work of Leaders
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Individual assessment to develop awareness and capability
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Team assessment to identify the impact of group tendencies
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Strategy planning meetings
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Business planning meetings
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Strengthening leadership capability
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Leadership development programmes
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Talent management programmes
£102.00 + VAT per profile
The Everything DiSC Work of Leaders profile
Each profile provides a detailed, personalised report, set in the context of leadership, containing:
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Your DiSC style & priorities
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Overview of the DiSC styles
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Analysis of the Work of Leaders model
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Measurement of tendencies against a set of best practice behavioural continua
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Your leadership strengths
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Your leadership challenges
Everything DiSC Work of Leaders Training
To get the most from the Everything DiSC Management profiles, we can support you with a range of training options. We can come to you (either physically or virtually) to facilitate sessions on your behalf, or we can help you to be confident in delivering a session yourself. If you are already confident, then you can get started straight away and either buy profiles and use them in your own session immediately or benefit from the extensive materials and support we offer.
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Training for Teams
We offer a unique training for teams experience through our Everything DiSC workshops. Our expert trainers will help your team discover their unique strengths and learn how to work more effectively together through interactive and engaging activities. Our training has been shown to improve team communication, efficiency, and overall satisfaction.
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Training to Facilitate
Take your facilitation skills to the next level with our comprehensive training programmes. We offer Everything DiSC Certification and Everything DiSC Facilitator Training. Both will equip you with the knowledge and tools to lead successful DiSC workshops and training sessions. Our experienced team will provide you with support and guidance every step of the way, helping you unlock your full potential as a facilitator.
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Get started straight away!
Our Facilitation Kits come with everything you need to confidently facilitate Everything DiSC workshops that create positive change in your organisation. From comprehensive facilitator guides to engaging activities and videos, our kits are designed to take your facilitation skills to the next level. And with an EPIC account, you can easily manage and track assessments so you can focus on facilitating impactful workshops.
EVERYTHING DiSC WORK OF LEADERS® CONCEPTS
How does Everything DiSC Work of Leaders® relate to DiSC®?
Everything DiSC® profiles traditionally provide narrative feedback with a particular area of focus such as interacting with colleagues, selling to clients, or managing individuals. Leadership, as a concept, can be hard to grasp because of the multiple, and sometimes conflicting, theories available on the market. Everything DiSC Work of Leaders® offers a clear, focused path toward leadership development through its Vison, Alignment, and Execution (VAE) model and the associated behavioral continua for each aspect of the model. A cornerstone principle of Everything DiSC is that all DiSC® styles are equally valuable. While all four DiSC styles contribute to leadership success, Everything DiSC Work of Leaders focuses on developing preferred behaviors that are based on best practices. Unlike other Everything DiSC profiles, which emphasize understanding the differences and similarities between people, Work of Leaders focuses on understanding how behaviors influence specific leadership situations.
Is the Everything DiSC Work of Leaders assessment valid and reliable?
The Everything DiSC Work of Leaders Profile is one of a number of assessments within the Everything DiSC family of products. This assessment builds on over 40 years of DiSC research and knowledge. More information is available in the Everything DiSC Research Report and the Everything DiSC Research Manual (in English).
How did you determine the Work of Leaders Priorities?
First, we used the existing DiSC model research to derive the priorities of leaders with different DiSC styles. We then collected data to evaluate our hypotheses and from this research developed a model for the Everything DiSC Work of Leaders priorities. Finally, leaders were asked to rate how important they felt various priorities were in a work environment. Results showed strong support for the Everything DiSC Work of Leaders® model. This model accurately reflects real-life environments that are useful for understanding various approaches to leading teams. More information is available in the Everything DiSC Research Report and the Everything DiSC Research Manual (in English).
How do you define leadership and differentiate it from management?
A basic internet search of “leadership and management,” yields a vast number of results and, therefore, you will find that there are as many definitions for leadership and management as there are experts in the field. In developing Everything DiSC Work of Leaders, we conducted an analysis of experts in the field to identify the broadest commonalities between definitions. From this, we defined leadership as bringing out the best in an organization or in a collection of people—in other words, a one-to-many scenario. On the other hand, we defined management as bringing out the best in the individual people you manage on a one-to-one basis. As you might imagine, the two have overlapping skill sets; however, each requires unique skills. Everything DiSC Work of Leaders focuses on helping a leader effectively craft a vision for that team, build alignment amongst the team members, and execute that vision moving forward to lead to success. In each of these areas, leaders will learn to be more effective in their one-to-many professional relationships.
What’s the difference between Everything DiSC Work of Leaders® and Everything DiSC® Management?
Everything DiSC Work of Leaders® defines leadership as a one-to-many relationship and focuses on increasing effectiveness in the areas of Vision, Alignment, and Execution using 18 behavioral continua based on leadership best practices. Everything DiSC® Management, on the other hand, defines management as a one-to-one relationship and focuses on improving effectiveness in directing and delegating, motivating, and developing others using the Everything DiSC Management Map as a guide.
How does Everything DiSC Work of Leaders relate to the book, The 8 Dimensions of Leadership?
Everything DiSC Work of Leaders and The 8 Dimensions of Leadership are complementary works. Thus, you can very easily use them together to explore different facets of leadership. Everything DiSC Work of Leaders helps leaders become more effective in the areas of Vision, Alignment, and Execution by concentrating on strengths and challenges using 18 behavioral continua. Ultimately, Everything DiSC Work of Leaders helps leaders take action with personalized tips and strategies for each behavior. The 8 Dimensions of Leadership focuses on the priorities around the Everything DiSC Leadership Map used in Everything DiSC Work of Leaders. Overall, the book describes how DiSC® style affects leadership and gives steps for increasing leadership effectiveness.
Why is the feedback given in Everything DiSC Work of Leaders context-specific?
The behaviors on the right side of the behavioral continua in Work of Leaders are the best practices within a given context or situation. For example, challenging others’ ideas helps ensure that logic is solid and solutions are well thought out. When you’re trying to gain alignment through open dialogue, however, challenging others’ ideas may leave people feeling deflated or intimidated. This can quickly shut down the conversations that lead to shared ownership and true buy-in. In this context, the best practice is to remain open.
Why does some of my feedback seem to contradict what I know about my DiSC® style?
There may be times that a person’s continua score does not seem consistent with the typical characteristics of their DiSC® style. This can happen because DiSC style and Work of Leaders behavioral continua scores are calculated separately. For instance, we know that two people with the D style are not identical. This is because the D style is multidimensional, containing correlated but separate elements like forcefulness, directness, and tough-mindedness. There are times when an individual may demonstrate only two out of three of these characteristics and still be classified as a D style. Unexpected continua scores help reflect the depth of a person’s DiSC style. With Everything DiSC Work of Leaders®, it was important to report results at this level of precision because of the emphasis placed on the behavioral continua. The Everything DiSC® Supplement for Facilitators can help you identify unexpected behaviors and is available for any Everything DiSC® profile.
What does it mean if I am on the left side of the behavioral continua?
The behaviors on the right side of each behavioral continuum represent the best practices for each phase of the Work of Leaders process. If you are closer to the left side of the behavioral continua, it does not mean you cannot perform these best practices. Rather, it simply means that it may take more energy for you to do so. More than 50% of leaders have between five and nine behaviors on the left side of the continua.