What Is the Working Better Together Course?
Working Better Together is an advanced training that offers your team the ability to build more productive, effective relationships.
Before the course, your team will:
- Discover their own DiSC personality style with the assessment
- Distinguish the differences of other personality styles
- Navigate challenges and opportunities in their professional relationships
They will learn how to flex with other personality styles and improve their engagement and collaboration for a better overall workplace experience.
This training is available in person at our training facility in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in a virtual training format, or onsite at your company anywhere in the country.
Who is it for?
This collaboration training works for employees of all levels across all industries, no matter whether they’re a leader or an individual contributor. Anyone wanting effective team relationships and communication, and better employee retention, should sign up today!
What This Course Covers
As a comprehensive form of collaboration training for employees, Working Better Together and customized versions of the training cover the following steps.
Discovering Your Style
Before you can understand others’ personality styles, you have to first understand your own. Participants will take the DiSC personality assessment before class.
During the training, participants will debrief their assessment and learn the dynamics of each of the DiSC personality styles. They will also explore how their personality style influences their stressors, motivators, overall experience in the workplace, and how they believe others should function.
Evaluating Your Team’s Styles
Participants will take a deeper look at the other personality styles on your team. They’ll also learn what their reactions are to other styles how others experience their own DiSC personality style.
Each participant will choose one style to focus on and identify potential challenges and strengths of the relationship.
Mastering Work Relationships
Participants will create personalized strategies to overcome challenges experienced when working with the different styles to maximize the effectiveness of their work relationship.
Participants will also learn how to use the online Catalyst Platform as a comparison tool to reinforce what is learned when they get back to work.
Developing a Personal Action Plan
Your team will create personal action plans for themselves. These lay out a specific and measurable path for improving their self-awareness and workplace relationships.
Bonus: Using the Catalyst Platform
You’ll also receive ongoing access to extended learning through the Catalyst Platform. This interactive learning portal gives you and your team unlimited access to insights about DiSC and strategies for applying it to real-life work situations.
Benefits of This Collaboration Training
Participants will learn how to flex their communication styles so they can truly listen to and be heard by their coworkers.
HRCI
This training offers 6 credits
SHRM
This training offers 6 credits
Program Details and Registration
In Person Training Program Details
Rapids or on-site at your company if you arrange for it. Attendance is limited to 10–20 people to maximize interactions. This training can also be customized for your group.
The in-person training includes:
- 6 hours of live training and application activities
- A 26-page in-depth DiSC assessment
- Extended learning opportunities with our interactive learning portal
- A personal action plan to improve self-awareness and workplace relationships
- Full hot lunch provided
Training center location: 1760 44th Street SW, Suite 10, Grand Rapids, MI 49519
Virtual Training Program Details
Led by instructors over a Zoom meeting. Class sizes include 20 people for more interactions.
The virtual training program includes:
- 6 hours of training and application activities
- A 26-page in-depth DiSC assessment
- Extended learning opportunities with our interactive learning portal
- A personal action plan to improve self-awareness and workplace relationships
You will need a computer, iPad, or smartphone for this training, along with stable internet access.
Custom Solutions
Receive Customized Training
We offer customized training for teams across the country, whether it’s in-person or virtual. All standard and customized trainings include access to the Catalyst Platform and DiSC reports for your team.
Reach out to us today and tell us about your collaboration training needs, or see upcoming available dates and register with your team today!
Training Reviews
I enjoyed doing the DISC Assessment and facilitation experience with Ryan Williams both for the insight it gave me personally, but also the insight it gave me into professional team dynamics. Of course we all know that as people we think and act differently, but having common language to describe those differences is so helpful. It's also always a good reminder to learn about my own strengths & weaknesses and how that is hurting and helping the teams that I am a part of. I'm excited to have Ryan back in the future to continue to help with team dynamics!
Katie G, Director of Campus Engagement
Cornerstone University
I just finished this class and I FREAKING LOVED IT!!!!! I had Ryan Williams as the instructor and it was seriously an amazing class. I give it 5 stars and 2 thumbs up!
Sarah M, Director of Patient Financial Services
At Home Healthcare
This training gives you the ability to better understand what motivates others and how to communicate with them better. It is worth the time and money.
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I believe this training will be a catalyst to a new organization! I have never felt like I have understood my staff better. Knowledge is key and having that with your team is invaluable! Ryan is incredible!! He is able to roll with the punches while keeping a very diverse and opinionated team on track! I would participate in his training any day!
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Thank you! The training today is in my top 3 workshops of my world in HR, and I’ve been to a lot of them in almost 20 years! Thank you so much, it was very insightful!
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Ryan did a great job presenting and facilitating our team discussions. Its was time and money well spent. We are committing to work on accountability and will work with the team and provide the accountability they are looking for. We appreciated your time!
Ryan S.,
Express Employment Professionals of Southwest Michigan
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
The DiSC Model is a behavioral model that identifies four overall behavioral styles:
- D: Dominance
- i: Influence
- S: Steadiness
- C: Consciousness
DiSC measures a spectrum of how bold or cautious someone is, along with how accepting or questioning someone is. These combined spectrums help you understand your preferred style of behavior so you can be more effective in working with others.
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