Adapting to different styles

Learn how to work with people who have a different style than yours.

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Learning objectives :

  • Identify your own DISC profile and understand what it means in terms of managerial behaviors, strengths, and biases
  • Deciphering the communication styles of others through observation, without having to give them a test
  • Adapt your communication and management style to each individual, while remaining natural

Course :

Session 1: Discovering Your Own Style
You can’t adapt to others without first understanding yourself. Participants explore their DISC profile and delve deeper into what it means in practical terms in a managerial context: What are my natural strengths, my areas for development, and toward which types of people do I have a negative bias?

Case Study : Identify your dominant profile, explore your natural strengths and managerial blind spots, and become aware of the profiles with which collaboration is naturally more difficult.

Session 2: Understanding Others’ Styles
Identifying a person’s style without putting them through a test is a key skill for managers. Participants learn to observe behavioral cues that reveal a person’s DISC profile: how someone speaks, makes decisions, and reacts to stress or disagreement.

Case Study : Identify a person’s DISC style based on a description of their typical behaviors, and justify this identification using the observed cues.

Session 3: Adapting Your Management Style to Different Personality Types
Knowing someone’s personality type is a good start. But adapting your management style, feedback, or messages accordingly while remaining natural—that’s where the real impact lies. Participants practice rephrasing specific messages based on the recipient’s profile.

Case Study : Rephrase the same message to adapt it to the recipient’s style, creating multiple versions for different DISC profiles and identifying the specific changes in both content and form.

When you leave this workshop, you'll know...

  • Recognize your own style and understand its implications so you can adapt more effectively
  • Understanding Your Employees' Styles by Observing Their Behavior
  • Adapt your communication and management style to each individual’s needs during key moments: feedback, difficult conversations, and times of change

And it'll come in handy for...

  • Exerting influence during key moments in management (feedback, difficult conversations, times of change)
  • Make an impact at key moments outside of management (sales, communication, cross-functional collaboration)

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