Manage with Awareness

• Managers who want to enrich their leadership skills with a proven methodology that allows them to individualize their management style
• Managers who want to increase motivation within their teams
• Managers who want to boost effectiveness of their teams
• Managers of conflict-ridden teams who want to learn how to convert conflict into healthy debate

Objectives

• Obtaining personalized results using two recognized psychometric tools: DISC® Work of Leaders and Reiss Motivation Profile (RMP) ®
• Discovering “secrets” of your motivation
• management through individualization by discovering how to individualize managerial work for people with a specific level of motivators, such as: power independence, curiosity, tranquility, acceptance, vengeance or status etc.
• Improving communication skills by learning how to formulate messages tailored to each DISC® style representative
• Considering the pros and cons of specific attitudes (e.g. openness, decisiveness, proactivity, tendency to praise) that you tend to take whilst performing key managerial activities and learning how to maximize the effect of your work
• Mastering a tool that allows you to increase the team’s effectiveness by providing development tailored to its members’ needs
• Creating your own management style

Day1

Overview of DiSC® styles

• Characteristics of DiSC® styles – How do we differ as people and how can we profit from these differences?
• What is inside my DiSC® communication style? – How can we use it consciously to build alliances?

Effective communication with DiSC® style representatives:

• How to communicate with other DiSC® styles representatives to improve team collaboration and obtain synergy effect
• Practising communication against different DiSC® style representatives
  • Role playing
  • Case studies – area of mastery and areas of development for a team with given DiSC® styles

Effective leadership

• The most important components of effective leadership based on the DiSC® methodology
• Your natural leadership style comprising 18 behaviours that you tend to present, such as: openness to the opinions of others, risk taking willingness, decisiveness, way of involving others, level of proactivity and spontaneity or tendency to praise etc.
• Managing people with a given DiSC® style
• Developing employees with a specific DiSC® style
• Recognizing DiSC® styles within my team and preparing individual management style for them

Day 2

Needs and motivation:

• Sources of motivation – 16 greatest human needs and motivators according to S. Reiss
• Mutual perception of people with different intensity of a given motivator

My RMP test results:

• How to increase self-motivation – a catalog of my needs from RMP report
• My strengths as a manager (based on RMP report)
• How to use motivational profile of my employees to perform managerial duties more efficiently?

Management through individualization:

• Case studies:
  • Biggest opportunities and threats of a team
  • Management by individualization for a sample team
• Management through individualization
  • with given motivators
  • Evaluation interview with a person with given motivation profile
  • Motivational interview with a person with given motivators, whose work performance has dropped
  • Development plan for a person with given motivators

Creating a plan to implement a new individual management style