Facilitation method · Everything DiSC®
Everyone starts as one dot on a circle. By the end of the session, the whole team can see each other, and has a shared language for working together.
Everything DiSC® from Wiley
A DiSC workshop helps a team understand four different ways people tend to behave and communicate at work, so they can collaborate more effectively.
We use Everything DiSC® from Wiley, the publisher of the original DiSC assessment. Before the session, everyone completes a short online assessment and receives a personal Everything DiSC Workplace® profile. In the room, we bring the model to life, and afterward the Catalyst™ platform keeps it in daily use.
Tested for reliability and validity against the standards psychologists use for any assessment.
Read our research summary (PDF)Each person receives an Everything DiSC Workplace® profile written about them, not a generic type.
See a sample profileWiley’s online platform keeps the learning going: look up colleagues, compare styles, and get tips.
Step 1 · One dot
The model rests on two dimensions. Up and down: how active and outspoken, or thoughtful and reflective, you tend to be. Left and right: how questioning and skeptical, or accepting and warm. Where you land gives you your style.
Direct and decisive. Moves fast and pushes for results.
Outgoing and enthusiastic. Builds momentum through people.
Steady and supportive. Notices how everyone is doing.
Careful and analytical. Wants the facts and wants it right.
Many workplace assessments get treated as a verdict on how capable someone is. When people feel ranked, they get defensive and the conversation stops. Everything DiSC measures preferences instead, which makes it safe to share results openly and easy for everyone to use as a common language.
Step 2 · Every dot
Put everyone’s dot on one circle and the team’s patterns appear. This group, about 20 people from one office, leaned heavily toward the questioning side of the circle, with only one person in the S quadrant. That’s useful to know before the next meeting.
The words around the circle are the DiSC priorities. A cluster of dots near Results and Challenge tells a different story than one near Support and Stability.
When most people share a side of the circle, the few who don’t can carry perspectives the team easily overlooks.
Empty areas of the map point to priorities nobody naturally leans toward, so the team can cover them on purpose.
Step 3 · Dots connect
The workshop is the start. Catalyst, Wiley’s online platform, gives everyone a way to figure out how to connect with the people they work with, long after the session.
See a teammate’s style and what tends to drive and stress them at work.
See where you and a colleague are alike, where you differ, and what that means for working together.
Practical suggestions for a tricky meeting, a piece of feedback, or a first project together.
Build a map for a team or department and see its patterns, the same way we do in the workshop.
You and Sam
How you’re different
You like to decide quickly. Sam wants time to check the details.
Tip for working together
Send the key facts the day before, then ask for Sam’s view.
What everyone receives
A personalized report that builds more effective relationships, available in multiple languages for teams that work across them.
See a sample profileIn the room
Session 1 · 3 hours
A light, engaging introduction where everyone discovers their style and sees the team’s mix.
Session 2 · 3 hours
A deeper follow-up for teams that want to put the language to work on their real relationships.
The research
Everything DiSC is tested the way psychologists test any assessment. Taken two weeks apart, results on each of the eight scales behind the circle correlate between .85 and .88, comfortably in the range researchers call good. The scales also relate to each other the way the circle predicts.
Download the research summary (PDF)
One example from our work
An international energy company’s Calgary office wanted its holiday celebration to start with something meaningful. About 25 people from finance, operations, commercial, planning, and the executive team, representing more than 20 nationalities, took the assessment ahead of time. They found their styles, saw the team’s map, worked through a challenge in mixed-style teams, and tied their own priorities to the company’s values with one communication commitment each.
Is it the right tool?
Everything DiSC Workplace® from Wiley, the publisher of the original DiSC assessment. Every participant receives a personal profile and access to the Catalyst™ platform.
Each session runs about three hours. The first introduces DiSC and the team’s mix of styles. The second goes deeper into real working relationships, each team’s map, and working agreements.
It describes preferences and tendencies at work, not skill, ability, or intelligence. We use it as a tool for dialogue, not diagnosis, and never to label or sort people.
Everything DiSC® demonstrates strong reliability, with consistent results when people repeat the assessment two weeks later (correlations of .85–.88 across all eight scales). Research also shows that the relationships between these scales closely match the DiSC model, supporting its validity as a tool for understanding workplace behavioral preferences. Read our research summary (PDF)
That’s normal, and it’s why we open with the line of identification. Everyone is a blend of all four styles, and experience, education, and culture shape how a style shows up.
One of our certified facilitators.
Everything DiSC®, Everything DiSC Workplace®, DiSC®, Catalyst™, and Agile EQ™ are trademarks of John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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