Everything DiSC Management on Catalyst
Everything DiSC Management is an inexpensive add-on for the base Catalyst experience, which includes Workplace. With Catalyst, respondents can get Management and Workplace for the same cost as the traditional Management assessment alone. For details on adding Management to an existing Catalyst record, read First Look! Everything DiSC Management on Catalyst.
Exploring the Management on Catalyst Results, Part 1
On Catalyst, the Everything DiSC Management results closely align with the traditional PDF report. The sections are as follows:
Management overview
This section provides a high-level look at how DiSC can help managers understand themselves and their direct reports. This page features the Everything DiSC Management Introduction video as seen on our Sample Management Videos page.
This section does not map to existing pages in the traditional Everything DiSC Management profile.
Your Management Style
This section reviews what the user prioritizes as a manager and explores the parts of the manager’s job that they enjoy and those tasks that they find draining. This section of Catalyst corresponds to pages 5 & 6 of the Management profile, although in reverse order.
Exploring the Management on Catalyst Results, Part 2
Sections on Management Skills
The remaining four sections are devoted to specific management skills that users can improve upon by leveraging their understanding of DiSC.
For each section, there is a style locator (shown here) that allows the manager to estimate someone’s style when they are not on Catalyst. If the person is on Catalyst, the manager can quickly look them up by name to see their style.
From there, Catalyst provides links to information, by style, on how to approach each skill for the person with that DiSC style.
These sections are:
- Direct & delegate – corresponds to pages 7-11 of the traditional Management profile
- Motivation – corresponds to pages 12-16 of the traditional Management profile
- Develop talent – corresponds to pages 17-21 of the traditional Management profile
- Manage up – corresponds to the “How Your Manager Sees You” section of the traditional Management profile (pages 22-26)
We often do training around the Management profile using an approach like this: Pick a person you have difficulty [directing, motivating, developing] and then use the information in the profile to find a better strategy. This new layout on Catalyst dovetails nicely with that method and continues to be an easier way for managers to use the information to improve working relationships with their employees.
What’s Next?
Get to Know Catalyst
No matter how much you think you know DiSC, if you haven’t experienced Catalyst, you are missing out. But you don’t have to be! Shop Catalyst profiles in our online store or schedule a tour of Catalyst.
With this quick review hot off the presses, next we’ll be digging into the facilitation materials which are already available.
Facilitation Materials
The Catalyst in-person and virtual materials are a free upgrade to Workplace, Management, oe Agile EQ Facilitation Kit*. If you already own one of those kits, go to register.everythingdisc.com to get the free update!
*Free Catalyst upgrades have been extended through December, 2025.
Workshops Available!
We have created a Catalyst version of our own virtual Management workshop. Submit a workshop request form to see about getting your managers up to speed on leveraging DiSC with their direct reports (and their manager, too!).