The DiSC personality assessment is a behavioral assessment tool that measures an individual’s behavioral preferences and tendencies in a work or social environment. It’s based on the DiSC theory developed by psychologist William Moulton Marston in the 1920s.
The term “DiSC” stands for four primary personality traits:
Dominance (D): People who exhibit dominance traits tend to be direct, assertive, and decisive. They are often described as driven and results oriented.
Influence (I): Individuals with influence traits are outgoing, enthusiastic, and sociable. They enjoy interacting with others and are often seen as persuasive and optimistic.
Steadiness (S): People with steadiness traits are calm, patient, and supportive. They value stability and prefer to work in a harmonious environment.
Conscientiousness (C): Individuals with conscientiousness traits are analytical, detail-oriented, and systematic. They prioritize accuracy and follow procedures carefully.
The DiSC assessment typically presents participants with a series of questions or statements designed to measure their preferences across these four dimensions. Based on their responses, participants are assigned a DiSC profile that indicates their primary and secondary personality styles.
The assessment provides insights into an individual’s communication style, decision-making approach, motivations, strengths, and potential areas for development. It can be used for personal development, team building, leadership training, and improving workplace communication and collaboration.
There are several versions of the DiSC assessment available, each tailored to specific applications such as workplace dynamics, leadership development, sales effectiveness, or personal growth. One popular version is Everything DiSC, which offers a range of assessments designed for different contexts and purposes, such as Everything DiSC Workplace, Everything DiSC Management, and Everything DiSC Sales.
Overall, the DiSC personality assessment provides a framework for understanding and appreciating individual differences in behavior, helping people work more effectively together and improve their interpersonal relationships.
The Everything DiSC® learning experience deepens self-awareness, inspires appreciation of others, and fosters effective collaboration in the workplace, all of which contribute to more productive and effective relationships at work.
On an individual level, it can be used to gain insight into preferences and tendencies, learn more about relating to others, and receive actionable strategies to improve performance. On an organizational level, it can be used to unlock peak potential, increase engagement, inspire collaboration, and ignite cultural transformation.
WHICH DISC ASSESSMENT TO PURCHASE & HOW TO PURCHASE
The Everything DiSC Workplace Profile helps individuals understand that focusing on relationships, especially in business, is more important than only focusing on themselves. This popular assessment teaches people about their DiSC personality type and how they can work with others who may approach situations differently. The Workplace Profile helps with conflict resolution and improves motivation, communication, and more amongst team members at every level of the business.
The Everything DiSC® Sales Profile can help anyone become a better salesperson and communicate well with customers. This profile takes learners through a DiSC assessment to learn about their personal style. Participants will then learn about customer buying styles and how to tailor their style to a customer’s. As individuals practice these skills, they’ll ultimately make more sales and improve customer satisfaction.
After completing the Sales Profile, participants will know how to match their style with their customer’s style to sell to customers more effectively. The Sales Profile will also improve customer service skills by teaching tactics to communicate with all kinds of people. The Sales Profile equips learners with actionable knowledge so they can meet their customers’ needs.
The Everything DiSC® Management Profile teaches managers about their strengths and weaknesses. This profile helps managers get better at delegation, leadership development, executive coaching, and more. As managers learn their DiSC management styles, they’ll learn how to be a more effective leader to the people they direct.
The Everything DiSC Management Profile will improve your workplace culture by providing personalized insights that inspire behavior change. This personal development learning experience works by teaching managers more about themselves, their bosses, and their employees. As individuals learn these insights, they’ll also learn the tools they need to communicate and collaborate more effectively with everyone.
The Everything DiSC Work of Leaders® Profile is a leadership development assessment that helps individuals grow into their full potential as leaders. Effective for both individuals and groups, this assessment uses the power of DiSC to help participants learn about Vision, Alignment, and Execution.
The personalized insight delivered in the Work of Leaders Profile helps participants tap into their leadership potential as they learn more about themselves and how to work with others. And when leaders reach their potential, the entire company does, too.
The Everything DiSC® Productive Conflict Profile shows participants how conflict isn’t always a bad thing. When handled correctly, conflict can be both productive and constructive.
This assessment is excellent for improving communication, self-awareness, and overall conflict management. The primary takeaway is simple: You can change your response to conflict. With the Everything DiSC Productive Conflict Profile, participants will learn how to have a productive response to conflict. As a result, your team will come together, transforming your workplace into a collaborative and thriving culture.
Everything DiSC® Agile EQ™ provides a personalized learning experience that teaches participants to read the emotional and interpersonal needs of a situation and respond accordingly. After completing this profile, individuals will be exposed to enhance their emotional intelligence.
They’ll know how to step outside of their comfort zone and operate on the fly, easily adjusting their responses for any situation. The Agile EQ program helps participants improve their agile emotional intelligence. In turn, this allows them to improve workplace relationships, leading to stronger and more agile company culture. By the end of the learning experience, individuals will know how to read the emotions in a situation and then offer the appropriate response.
OPTIONS FOR LARGE GROUPS / ORGANIZATIONS
You can purchase assessments and we can distribute them for you. We do offer pricing based on volume. If you prefer to manage the assessment process we can create an EPIC sub account for you. EPIC credits are the digital currency used by Wiley. You can use these credits to buy everything you need to run a successful DISC training — the tools, individual profiles, facilitator reports and other materials.
Each profile and report are assigned a specific credit value (see table). EPIC credits are meant to be used via an EPIC sub-account. As an Everything DiSC Authorized Partner, we manage these accounts. EPIC credits never expire. They are always able to be used.
About Catalyst™: A New Interactive Experience for DiSC Assessments
Everything DiSC® on CatalystTM is a personal development learning experience that equips people with the social and emotional know-how for more effective interactions at work—no matter who or where they are.
By combining our proven DiSC model with flexible facilitation and a powerful learning platform, Everything DiSC on Catalyst helps people:
• Better understand themselves
• Appreciate and value differences in perspective and approach
• Readily and consistently adapt to the unique needs of each person or situation they encounter
The result is lasting impact. When learners use Everything DiSC on Catalyst, the hard work of long-lasting behavior change is possible…even fun. When organizations use Everything DiSC on Catalyst, they foster a more engaged, collaborative, and adaptive culture that drives results.
Each Everything DiSC on Catalyst learning experience starts with our best-selling Everything DiSC Workplace application. From there, learners can continue their DiSC journey with Agile EQTM or Management
Everything DiSC® on CatalystTM offers a highly adaptive, human-centered solution that transforms your typical day-long training event into an ongoing development process—that works. The result is a more engaged, collaborative workforce that has an immediate and lasting impact on your organization’s performance and culture.
Discover Their Own Style
Catalyst delivers each learners’ assessment results using a personalized, narrative-style behavioral profile. The personalized profile content:
- Deepens self-understanding through the lens of each learner’s unique DiSC style
- Gives learners insight into their own preferences and tendencies
- Lays the groundwork for a transformational learning experience full of “aha!” moments
Connect with Colleagues
The Your Colleagues feature turns insights into action by connecting learners to their colleagues and offering real-time tips for more effective interactions. Learners will:
- Learn their colleagues’ strengths, when to pull them into a project, and what stresses them out
- Compare preferences and tendencies across a range of workplace behaviors
using the DiSC model - Gain access to tips that help them work better together in a variety of situations
Assess Additional DISC Applications
Catalyst offers a range of DiSC application content—including Workplace, Agile EQ, and Management—designed to
help learners develop the social and emotional know-how for more effective interactions at work.
This personalized content helps each learner:
- Better understand themselves
- Appreciate and value differences in perspective and approach
- Readily—and consistently—adapt to the unique needs of each person or situation they encounter
FEATURES TO LOOK FOR IN A QUALITY DISC ASSESSMENT
Validity and Reliability
The assessment should have undergone rigorous testing to ensure that it accurately measures what it claims to measure (validity) and produces consistent results over time (reliability). A quality DISC assessment should be based on sound psychological research and theory. Look for assessments that have been developed by reputable organizations with expertise in behavioral assessments.
The DiSC model and the Everything DiSC assessments have been validated through numerous studies conducted by Inscape Publishing (now Wiley), the publisher of Everything DiSC products. These studies have demonstrated the reliability and validity of the assessment across various populations and contexts.
As the original DiSC provider with nearly 50 years of expertise, Everything DiSC on Catalyst offers a proven, scientifically validated assessment with a 90%+ accuracy rating from learners worldwide. Learners respond to behavioral statements on a five-point scale to measure their preferences and tendencies based on the DiSC model—a simple, yet powerful model that describes four basic behavioral styles: D (Dominance), i (influence), S (Steadiness), and C (Conscientiousness).
GROUP ASSESSMENT OPTIONS
CATALYST PLATFORM
Each team member will use the CatalystTM platform to complete their assessment. On this learning platform additional videos, podcasts, comparison reports, and team views maps can be found and used at any time. Complimentary.
TEAM VIEW MAPS
As new team members complete the Everything DiSC® Workplace on Catalyst assessment, we can provide a complimentary Team View Map for each manager. This will allow the manager to see their team, which can be shared with everyone. Complimentary.
COMPARISON REPORTS
Inspire effective collaboration with Comparison Reports. Any two participants can explore their similarities and differences, potential challenges in working together, and practical tips for improving their working relationship. Complimentary.
GROUP CULTURE REPORTS
Determine the group’s DiSC culture by exploring its advantages and disadvantages, impact on group members, and influence on decision- making and risk-taking. Sold separately.
Strong Privacy and Data-Security Measures
Everything DiSC on Catalyst, like any reputable assessment tool, places a strong emphasis on privacy and data protection. If you are using the Catalyst™ platform, participants have control over their own data and can choose whether or not to share their assessment results with others. The privacy function is as simple as checking a box. Even though a participant has marked their own profile as private, there is still access to the platform.
