“Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to higher sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations…(in short), management is doing things right, leadership is doing the right things.”
— Peter Drucker —
In any successful organization, leaders can be found at every level—from the boardroom to the mail room, from the chairman’s office to the customer service desk. This is particularly true in organizations that have moved away from hierarchical structures to more matrixed organizational structures. In the 21st century, team-oriented approaches to leadership and management will prove to be more effective than traditional top-down approaches.
Whether you and your organization are developing future leaders who may or may not have direct reports, or advancing key individuals along leadership succession plans, we can assist you in building leadership competency one leader at a time. In addition to leadership needs based upon the situation, leaders display differing leadership characteristics or “dimensions of leadership.”
A follower can become a leader and a leader can spend time as a follower. Some of the tools you can use to strengthen your leadership bench-strength are: the Everything DiSC Workplace®, the Everything DiSC® Management, and the Everything DiSC Work of Leaders®, as well as The Five Behaviors® and PXT Select™. These assessment tools can assist learners in:
- Discovering personal leadership style strengths and areas for growth
- Encouraging acceptance of different approaches to leadership
- Matching leadership approaches to organizational needs
- Recognizing the strengths in shared leadership
We provide interactive, experiential training modules designed to educate leaders at every level to:
- Communicate and Collaborate More Effectively
- Give and Receive Feedback
- Encourage Productive Conflict
- Create High-Performing, Cohesive Teams
- Leverage Your Leadership and Communication Style
- Transform Your Leadership Capability
Self-Mastery and Leadership
All leadership training strikes a balance between understanding and self-knowledge and awareness and skill development. Self-mastery and skill go hand in hand. Leaders must know how to facilitate group processes and minimize interpersonal conflict while encouraging productive conflict, listening and communicating effectively as well as aligning with organizational goals.
Some of the tools used to do this include training on Everything DiSC® and The Five Behaviors®.
To review, the acronym DiSC stands for four observable personality styles: Dominance, Influence, Steadiness, and Conscientiousness. People with similar styles tend to exhibit specific behavioral characteristics common to that style. All people share these four styles in varying degrees of intensity and can learn to self-manage their expressed style according to the needs of the situation and the people involved.
Using these families of assessment tools can assist you in creating a more positive organizational culture. An understanding of the Everything DiSC® as well as The Five Behaviors® Application Suite helps you create a positive, learning organization by:
- Reducing employee turnover by improving interpersonal relationships
- Increasing employee engagement through better interpersonal relationships and communication
- Teaching and reinforcing a shared language to describe behavior and motivation that is respectful, non-evaluative, and non- judgmental
- Encouraging mutual respect and connection between people who are different thus facilitating a diverse and inclusive workplace culture
- Easing unproductive conflict by helping employees develop trust and teamwork through compassion for individual differences in perception and behavior
Everything DiSC® on Catalyst
Ever have trouble with communication between you and another person on your team or in another area of your organization?
Decreased productivity. Disruptive rather than productive conflict. Missed opportunities. These are just a few of the costs of poor interpersonal communication which can stifle employee collaboration and organizational performance.
The good news is, the Everything DiSC® on Catalyst platform keeps improving to help you have better quality conversations and improved interpersonal communication and collaboration in your everyday work interactions!
Everything DiSC® on Catalyst™ is a personal development learning experience that equips people with the social and emotional know-how for more effective interactions at work—no matter who or where they are. By combining our proven DiSC model with flexible facilitation and a powerful learning platform, Everything DiSC on Catalyst helps people:
- Better understand themselves
- Appreciate and value differences in perspective and approach
- Readily and consistently adapt to the unique needs of each person or situation they encounter
The result is lasting impact. When learners use Everything DiSC on Catalyst, the hard work of long-lasting behavior change is possible…even fun. When organizations use Everything DiSC on Catalyst, they foster a more engaged, collaborative, and adaptive culture that drives results.
To learn more, connect with Laura A. Davis and Associates, your Everything DiSC and Five Behaviors Authorized Partner.
