Fierce Awareness · DISC communication training
Work better with people who communicate differently.
You want the bottom line. Your colleague wants to talk through the details. Neither approach is wrong, but the difference can make working together harder. Fierce Awareness helps you understand your behavioral style and adapt how you communicate, so different approaches become easier to work with.
Where are communication styles getting in the way?
Tell us where your team is talking past one another. A Fierce advisor can help you explore how Awareness fits your people and your development priorities.
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The workplace problem
The same message can land differently
A brief reply feels dismissive. A request for more detail sounds like doubt. Someone thinks out loud while someone else wants time to prepare.
Without a conversation about those differences, it is easy to assign an intention that was never there. You repeat yourself, get frustrated or decide the other person is simply difficult to work with.
Awareness starts with examining your own approach. What do you prefer? How might it come across? What would help the other person engage? Understanding those differences gives you something practical to adjust in the next conversation.
Part of the Fierce Conversations® methodology
created by Susan Scott.
What changes after Fierce Awareness
What will participants learn to do differently?
After the program, participants should be better equipped to:
Understand your own style
Recognize your behavioral preferences, strengths and the ways your approach can affect others.
Notice differences without jumping to conclusions
Explore another person’s communication preferences before assuming you know their intention.
Adapt your communication
Adjust how you share information and engage with someone whose approach differs from yours.
Work through misunderstandings
Identify where styles may be getting in the way and discuss a more useful way to work together.
Method overview
How does Fierce Awareness work?
Participants explore the DISC model, interpret their own report and consider how styles interact. Five learning areas connect those insights to communication at work.
- 01
Natural and adapted styles
Explore your preferred approach and how you adjust it in different situations.
- 02
Behavior ranges
Examine the range of behaviors within styles and what that means for how you work with others.
- 03
Value to the organization and time wasters
Consider the strengths you bring and the habits that can get in the way of effective work.
- 04
Recognizing behavioral styles
Learn to notice differences in how people approach work and conversation.
- 05
Communication misunderstandings
Explore where styles can clash and how to adapt your approach to improve the exchange.
The aim is to use your report in conversations, with room for people to explain their own preferences and experience.
Audience
Who is Fierce Awareness for?
For people who need to work effectively with others, including colleagues whose pace, priorities or communication preferences differ from their own.
Managers supporting different people
Consider how your approach lands with each person and adjust how you communicate expectations.
Teams working across styles
Talk about differences that affect meetings, decisions and everyday collaboration.
HR and learning leaders
Help people turn insight about themselves into more useful conversations with colleagues.
Customer proof
Learning that reaches across the organization
In a testimonial published in Fierce’s Awareness program summary, Peter Lynch of AIMCO describes the relevance of the learning across organizational levels.
“This program is applicable to all levels within the organization. The skills learned have the potential to bring a complete transformation to the conversation you and your team members have. It was one of the best trainings I have ever participated in.”
Peter Lynch
VP of Learning and Organization Development, AIMCO
Title as published in the Fierce Awareness program summary.
How Fierce delivers
Flexible delivery. Practical application.
Choose the format that fits how your people work and learn. A Fierce advisor can confirm current formats and assessment arrangements and help you plan how Awareness fits into your organization’s learning path.
In person
Facilitated learning that gives people space to practice, reflect and work through real organizational challenges together.
Virtual
Live, interactive sessions designed to build skills across distributed teams without sacrificing participation or application.
On demand
Flexible learning that supports individual development, reinforcement and broader access across the organization.
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