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Practical team building workshops that help your people communicate and lead better  
High-performing teams understand each other. Our half-day DISC workshops give your team practical tools to communicate better and lift performance, delivered in Melbourne and across Australia.
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Understanding the DISC framework

The DISC framework is a widely used behavioural assessment model that emerged from research at Harvard University and is now used by millions of people worldwide each year to improve communication, teamwork and leadership effectiveness. The online DISC assessment takes around 10 minutes to complete and identifies your behavioural preferences, communication style and key motivators. You’ll then receive a comprehensive 25-page report with practical insights to help you better understand yourself and work more effectively with others.

WHAT DISC WORKSHOPS DELIVER

  • Understand your own behavioural style and preferences
  • Discover what motivates different members of your team
  • Communicate more clearly and effectively across teams
  • Build stronger, more collaborative working relationships
  • Improve overall team alignment and performance

WHY CHOOSE MELBOURNE LEADERSHIP GROUP?

Practical DISC workshops built around your team

Delivered onsite, offsite or online, whatever suits your team

Accredited DISC trainer with real-world leadership experience

Works for groups of any size, from a handful to a hundred

Half-day format that fits around your team's schedule

Working with organisations Australia-wide, we come to you

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Our DISC team building workshops

TWO PRACTICAL, ENGAGING WORKSHOP OPTIONS FOR YOUR TEAM

Our DISC workshops are delivered in two levels. DISC Essentials provides an accessible introduction to behavioural styles and communication, while DISC Advanced is designed for teams ready to apply DISC more deeply to leadership, performance and team effectiveness.

DISC Essentials includes:

  • Introduction to DISC behavioural styles
  • Discover your personal DISC profile
  • Understand team dynamics and differences
  • Adapt communication for greater effectiveness

DISC Advanced includes:

  • Managing stress and conflict using DISC
  • Giving and receiving feedback effectively
  • Applying DISC to emotional intelligence & leadership impact
  • Understanding how DISC influences decision-making
Please note: DISC Advanced is only available to teams that have completed DISC Essentials.
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How does our DISC Essentials workshop work?

A half-day session covering the fundamentals of DISC

Step 1:
Introduction to DISC

Understand the importance of effective communication and learn the four DISC behavioural styles.

Step 2:
Discover your DISC style

Explore how you prefer to lead and communicate, and interpret your personal DISC profile.

Step 3:
Understand team dynamics

Identify the styles of your team members and consider how different styles work together.

Step 4:
Adapt for better communication

Learn to communicate more effectively and motivate others based on their DISC style.
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How does our DISC Advanced workshop work?

For teams who have completed DISC Essentials

Step 1:
Managing stress and conflict

Understand how each DISC style reacts under pressure, and learn triggers and strategies for recovery.

Step 2:
Giving feedback effectively

Build trust and lift performance by learning to give and receive feedback suited to each DISC style.

Step 3:
DISC and decision-making

Identify decision-making blind spots in your team and consider how style composition affects choices.

Step 4:
DISC and emotional intelligence

Link DISC insights to self-awareness and apply advanced principles to how you lead.

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Meet your DISC workshop facilitator

Led by an accredited DISC practitioner with extensive leadership experience

Hamish Park is a Melbourne-based executive adviser, leadership coach and accredited DISC practitioner with more than 20 years’ experience working with government leaders, boards and corporate executives.


He designs and facilitates leadership programs, DISC workshops and executive coaching that help leaders and teams communicate more effectively, build stronger relationships and improve performance.


Hamish holds a Master’s degree in Management from Harvard University, where he studied leadership. He is also an IECL Certified Organisational Coach, a Senior Fellow at Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, and serves on two boards as a non-executive director.

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READY TO BUILD A STRONGER, MORE ALIGNED TEAM?

Get started with a DISC workshop

Our DISC workshops give your team the tools to understand each other, communicate better and work more effectively together.

You’ll get:

  • A half-day workshop, onsite, offsite or online
  • An accredited DISC trainer with real-world leadership experience
  • A personal DISC profile and report for every participant
  • Practical tools your team can apply immediately
  • No lock-in — flexible scheduling to suit your team
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WHO DO WE WORK WITH?

We deliver team building workshops for leaders across the public, private and for-purpose sectors

We work with medium to large size organisations spanning many sectors. While we’re based in Melbourne, our team building workshops are delivered for national organisations and clients with operations across multiple state boundaries.

 

In the last three years, we’ve delivered team building workshops and leadership programs in Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney, Adelaide and regional Victoria. We’re proud that many of our executive clients vote with their feet, and have us back to coach, train and facilitate across multiple projects.

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“I participated in one of Hamish’s outstanding professional development programs, and can’t think of anyone better placed to advise, train and coach our leaders. Hamish consistently exhibits professionalism, commitment, international perspective, alertness, stamina, and excellence.”

Hannah, Melbourne

“I would not have guessed that I would have changed as much as I have in only six months. Thanks so much for your support and advice along the way.”

Dean, Sydney

“The choice we made to work with you through this program has been so right! The fact that you and your organisation see the true value in achieving a ‘leader of leaders’ outcome rather just than a better or improved leader, especially with encouragement of creating the ripple effects and mechanics of cascading, says a lot. An absolute pleasure to have worked with you.”

Nicholas, Melbourne

FAQs

A DISC workshop is a team building workshop that uses the DISC assessment to help participants understand their behavioural styles, communication preferences and workplace strengths. Through practical activities and facilitated discussion, teams learn how to communicate more effectively, reduce conflict and work better together.
Our DISC workshops are typically delivered as a half-day session lasting around four hours, including breaks. Workshops can be facilitated at your workplace, an off-site venue or online for remote and distributed teams.
DISC Essentials introduces the DISC framework and behavioural styles, making it ideal for teams new to DISC. DISC Advanced builds on these foundations, exploring topics such as conflict management, giving feedback, decision-making and emotional intelligence. DISC Advanced is available to teams that have already completed DISC Essentials.
Our DISC workshops can be tailored for teams of almost any size, from small leadership groups to organisation-wide sessions with 100 or more participants. We’ll adapt the workshop format to suit your team, objectives and available time.

It depends entirely on what the workshop is built around. Team building that relies on shared fun – cooking classes, escape rooms, go-karting – typically produces a good day and a brief lift in morale that fades within weeks.

Team building that gives people genuine insight into how they and their colleagues think, communicate, and behave produces something more durable: a shared language and a practical framework that people take back into the workplace and use.

Melbourne Leadership Group’s DISC team building workshops are built around the second model. Participants leave with a 25-page personal DISC report, a clearer understanding of their colleagues’ behavioural styles, and practical tools for communicating more effectively.

DISC is a behavioural assessment framework that emerged from research at Harvard University and is now used by over a million people worldwide each year. It produces a profile of how each person prefers to communicate, lead, make decisions, and respond under pressure.

In a team context, DISC is powerful because it makes visible the differences in behavioural style that cause most everyday friction in teams. When a team understands these differences through the lens of DISC, what previously felt like a personality clash starts to look like a style difference that can be navigated easily with practical tips.

Most team building workshops fail for the same reason: they are designed around a fun activity rather than an outcome. When the day ends, people have enjoyed themselves, but nothing has actually changed about how they understand each other or work together.

The workshops that produce lasting change share one characteristic: they give people a framework they take back to work with them the next day. Not just a good memory, but a way of seeing their colleagues differently – understanding why someone approaches work the way they do, why certain conversations are harder than they need to be, and what to do differently as a result.

DISC provides exactly that framework. Every participant leaves with a detailed personal assessment and a working understanding of how the people around them are wired. That is what makes the difference between a good day and a better team.

Team building is typically a single event – a workshop, an activity, or an experience designed to strengthen relationships and improve how a group works together. Done well, it produces real insight and practical tools.

Team development is a sustained process – an ongoing investment in the capability, dynamics, and performance of a team over time, usually involving coaching, regular feedback, and structured interventions across months rather than hours.

A DISC team building workshop is an excellent starting point and often the right entry point for a team that has not previously invested in how it works together. It is often the first step in Team Development. For teams with deeper or more persistent challenges – trust issues, performance problems, communication challenges, or structural dysfunction – a more sustained team development or team coaching engagement is usually required.

By giving people insight they can act on, not just an experience they enjoyed. Morale improvements from a good day together are real but temporary. Performance improvements come from understanding – specifically, understanding why colleagues behave differently and how to adapt communication and collaboration accordingly.

DISC does this directly. A team that understands each other’s DISC styles communicates more efficiently, experiences less unnecessary conflict, gives more effective feedback, and makes better collective decisions.

Both, but the improvement in how the team works is the point, not the by-product. The workshop is designed to produce lasting change in how people communicate and collaborate, not just a positive shared experience. That said, it is genuinely engaging – participants consistently find the DISC results personally revealing, the team dynamics discussion practically useful, and the session itself more energising than a typical half-day training event.

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