Team building
One of the most important investments for business
Team building is one of the most important investments you can make for positive people impact. It builds trust, encourages communication, and increases collaboration in the workplace. Effective team building can result in more engaged employees and a better company culture.
Mapien’s team building workshops allow members to take part in discussions and experiential activities to explore topics and challenges relevant to the team and workplace.
Our team building workshops are designed to:
- Analyse existing culture
- Improve the overall dynamics of the team.
- Create a harmonious working environment
- Ensure team members treat each other with trust and respect
- Ensure team members leverage each other’s skills and strengths
- Ensure appropriate interactions of team members with other areas of the business and external parties
DISC Assessments
About DISC Assessments
Leveraging DISC for stronger, more connected teams!
Here’s the reality: Strong teams don’t just happen. Just as we invest in refining our operations, innovating our processes and continuously improving our systems, we also need to innovate and refine the way our teams collaborate, communicate, and resolve conflicts.
Effective teamwork doesn’t happen by chance—it grows with intention, guidance, and support. And when it comes to fostering stronger team dynamics, a great place to start is with understanding our team’s personality.
Personality shapes our work style preferences – how assertive or collaborative we are, how fast-paced or methodical, how structured or flexible. Without the insight to recognise and work with these differences, they become barriers to team cohesion, causing miscommunications and sometimes even fostering tension within the team. Yet when we work as a team to appreciate these personality differences, they turn from being a source of friction to being point of power.
By understanding personality at work, we all improve
Individually, team members gain awareness of their own personality styles, allowing them to take accountability for how their preferred ways of working or communicating might affect others. Collectively, the team learns to embrace and leverage these differences, transforming them into strengths that make the whole greater than the sum of its parts.
What to expect when adopting personality tools to improve team process
✓ More cohesive and high performing teams
✓ Better communication
✓ More trust and greater psychological safety
✓ Increased adaptability as a team, better able to adjust to each other
✓ People are more engaged at work
When used with intention and appropriate team training, tools like the DISC invite teams to initiate conversations about individual working styles, strengths, and challenges. This shared language makes it easier to discuss interpersonal dynamics openly and constructively, as each team member gains insight into their own type as well as others’.
When to use DISC
✓ For personal and team reflection on behavioural tendencies and collaboration preferences
✓ To facilitate open, strengths-based discussions within your teams
✓ To build effective and stronger teams through communication and team interactions
DISC is not designed to predict job performance or suitability, so shouldn’t be used as a hiring tool. It is a guide for self-understanding and growth.
The DISC framework
The DISC model provides four-factor framework for understanding team dynamics by examining two essential dimensions of human behaviour. These dimensions reveal preferences in our interaction styles.
On the vertical axis, individuals may range from active and expressive at the top to more contemplative and introspective at the bottom.
The horizontal axis contrasts warm and accepting behaviours on the right with questioning and sceptical approaches on the left.
Where these dimensions intersect, they generate the four core DISC styles that highlight distinct behavioural patterns within teams, which can provide insight about they like to collaborate and work;
These four styles are Dominance, Influence, Steadiness and Conscientiousness.
Team Development DISC Workshop
A DISC personality profile and team development workshop is a practical and effective way for teams to learn about personality and working styles and navigate interpersonal dynamics.
Mapien’s skilled facilitators work with team leaders to deliver a customised team session. Prior to the one-day workshop, each team member completes a DISC assessment to provide insight into their team’s dynamics.
Ahead of the team development workshop, each team member completes a DISC assessment. These individual assessments result in individual reports that offer insights into each person’s primary behavioural type and communication preferences. These individual reports are shared with the individuals on the day of the team workshop.
Through the facilitated workshop session, team members gain insight into each other’s working preferences, setting the stage to build a supportive and inclusive team culture, that fosters psychological safety.
An example DISC workshop
Below is an example Team Development DISC workshop. Please note, content would vary depending on teams needs.
| 1 | Ice Breaker:
Activities designed to build psychological safety in the room, inviting some personal shares to create an open, trust-based environment. |
| 2 | About the DiSC
Introduce the core concepts of personality, behaviours at work, and the DISC model and discuss its relevance to observable behaviours at work or work preferences, setting the stage for constructive meaningful conversations about how to get the best out of each other. |
| 3 | Individual Reports
Team members are given their individual reports, and invited to reflect on their DISC reports, sharing self-insights around their strengths, potential blind spots, and reactions under pressure. Starting with self-insights, ensures each person feels a sense of ownership over the insights about their profile, and starts to build mutual understanding of each person’s preferred working style. |
| 4 | Team Report Explore
The team discusses the aggregated team report, exploring how their different styles interact. They examine areas of synergy, where collaboration thrives, and areas that could lead to friction or blind spots if unmanaged. |
| 5 | Building Our Team Culture
Guided exercises encourage the team to set norms that foster psychological safety and honest conversations. They discuss ways to leverage DISC insights for a more adaptive, supportive and inclusive team culture. |
| 6 | Setting Takeaways
Each team member defines personal takeaways and commitments, ensuring they leave the session with concrete actions to apply DISC insights in their day-to-day work. |