Communicating with DiSC

Breakout 1:

• How does your profile “show up” in your work?

• What is your dream job/ideal way of working? (Pace, environment, etc.)

• What do you see as some of the strengths you bring to the team? What are strengths that you see your partner bringing (in areas you are less strong)?

• What are challenges might you have with your partner? How can you overcome them?

• How can you better communicate/collaborate with each other?

• What are 3 interesting things you and your partner have in common?

Breakout 2

• What is awesome about style X? How do they contribute?

• How do people who aren’t in the X region feel about this culture? What are their pros and challenges?

• How open is your culture to the D, i, and S styles? How do they bring balance to your group?

• How is your style mislabeled/understood?

• How can people work and communicate with your own style better?

• What were some of your takeaways from your discussion with your partners?

Breakout 3: Roleplays— DO NOT CLICK YET PLEASE 🧐

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• If you are the Human Resources: https://knowmium.com/abcvphr

• If you are the Meeting Chair: https://knowmium.com/abcchair

Breakout 4

Please discuss with your partners:

• Did you share preferences or info first? Did all information get effectively shared?

• Did you share positive info on your non-preferred candidate?

• What was your specific goal? How did you try to persuade each other?

• How much time did each person talk? Did we listen? How many questions did we ask?

• How well do you feel your group members understood your needs/point of view? Did others use leadership or “loudership?

• How did you finally decide? Setting norms? General consensus?

• How does this relate back to how your collaboration work?

Breakout 3

Please discuss with your partners:

• How does your profile “show up” in your work?

• What is your dream job/ideal way of working? (Pace, environment, etc.)

• What do you see as some of the strengths you bring to the team? What are strengths that you see your partner bringing (in areas you are less strong)?

• What are challenges might you have with your partner? How can you overcome them?

• How can you better communicate/collaborate with each other?

• What are 3 interesting things you and your partner have in common?