The Everything DiSC® difference
Everything DiSC® is a transformative tool to build more effective interactions in all areas of life – personal, social and professional. It’s a simple yet powerfully easy to apply. Many other so-called personality assessments are either unreliably simplistic or brain-numbingly complex,
Built on decades of research and success, Everything DiSC® delivers immediately accessible, personalised insights that deepen participants’ understanding of how and why those around them behave as they do. Interactions become more relevant and transparent, conflict is reduced and the workplace becomes more enjoyable. Lasting improvement is then a natural consequence of your more engaged, collaborative workforce.
What is Everything DiSC®?
Simple, yet powerful
Everything DiSC® gives people a quick and intuitive way to understand themselves and others using a simple yet powerful model that describes four basic behavioural styles:
Dominance, Influence, Steadiness and Conscientiousness
While everyone is a blend of all four DiSC styles, each person has a uniquely inclined behavioural profile with different styles and priorities.
No style is better or worse, each one carrying different strengths and challenges. Once you learn to harness their value for LevelUp communication and interaction, a healthier organisation results.
Why it matters
No type is “right” or “wrong” style, each presents alternative ways to think, react and interact. Recognising this allows us to maximise each other's particular strengths and support each other when tested.
By harnessing Everything DiSC®, especially employing Catalyst™, participants gain clarity on how they naturally tend to behave and learn how to adapt when working with others who think or behave differently.
This empowers organisations to navigate interpersonal engagements and challenges more effectively and so build trust and collaboration.
How it works
Everything DiSC® is not a personality test or label. It focuses on ow we tend to act, communicate and respond to meet our needs.
At its heart, the DiSC® model tracks behaviour along two key dimensions, which together define a person’s natural tendencies:
- Pace/Energy - ranging from fast‑paced and assertive to moderate-paced and thoughtful.
- Task vs People Orientation - ranging from questioning and logical, to accepting and warm.
These two axes form the primary map you see at left. Where someone's "dot" lands on the circle determines their primary style.
By concentrating on behaviour, DiSC creates insight that feels relevant, practical and non-judgemental. This makes it quick to learn and is a key reason people love engaging with it.
The highest accuracy and trust
Over 100,000 organisations and 7,000,000 million people worldwide have benefited from Everything DiSC®. Built on more than 40 years of research and data and harnessing contemporary, adaptive assessment techniques and sophisticated algorithms Everything DiSC® delivers the highest levels of measurable, trustworthy accuracy.
The model scales seamlessly across individuals, teams and whole organisations and is equally valuable for leaders and emerging talent. Particularly when dealing with interpersonal relationships (especially where conflict exists), leadership and culture development.
By teaching adaptability and congruence, Everything DiSC® allows organisations to build a shared language of behaviour, that supports consistency while still respecting individual differences.
The four DiSC® styles
D Style - active and sceptical
D Style - active and sceptical
D Style - active and sceptical
Priorities:
Getting immediate results, taking action, challenging themselves and others
Motivated by:
Power and authority, competition, winning, success
Fears:
Loss of control, being taken
advantage of, vulnerability
Limitations:
Lack of concern for others, impatience, insensitivity
i Style - active and accepting
D Style - active and sceptical
D Style - active and sceptical
Priorities:
Expressing enthusiasm, taking action, encouraging collaboration
Motivated by:
Social recognition, group activities, friendly relationships
Fears:
Social rejection, disapproval,
loss of influence, being ignored
Limitations:
Impulsiveness, disorganization,
lack of follow-through
C Style- sceptical and reflective
Priorities:
Ensuring accuracy, maintaining stability, challenging assumptions
Motivated by:
Opportunities to use expertise or gain knowledge, attention to quality
Fears:
Criticism, slipshod methods,
being wrong
Limitations:
Overly critical, tendency to
overanalyse, isolates self
S Style - accepting and reflective
Priorities:
Giving support, maintaining stability, enjoying collaboration
Motivated by:
Stable environments, sincere appreciation, cooperation, opportunities to help
Fears:
Loss of stability, change, loss of
harmony, offending others
Limitations:
Overly accommodating, tendency to
avoid change, indecisiveness