Use Conversation Starters to build your enjoyment and productivity with your teams!

Does your team struggle to connect? Do group discussions stall? Are you left with more questions than answers after meetings? With Conversation Starters on Catalyst™, your teams can use DiSC® to tackle common challenges that hinder performance.

By combining DiSC with simple discussion guides, Conversation Starters equips your teams to talk about personality-based differences—helping you get to know each other faster, communicate more clearly, and make better decisions.

Getting started is easy! 
1. Visit the Your Groups feature on Catalyst. (If you want a Catalyst demo just DM me).
2. Create and save a group with people in your organization
3. Click into Conversation Starters and choose a topic
All it takes is 30 minutes and a Catalyst profile for your team to start working (and performing!) better together.

Visit Catalyst to get started today!

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A Hiring Tool to Hire the Best Candidates

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We all have unintended biases about who we hire, and there is a tool I offer called PXT Select™ that helps make the very human decisions about hiring simpler and smarter. It is a powerful selection assessment that measures a candidate’s cognitive abilities, behaviors, and interests. It equips you and your hiring managers with easy-to-understand information about the candidate and provides intuitive questions to strengthen the interview process. Purchase one meter and generate up to 13 reports over the life of that employee. DM me for more info or a demo!

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Upgrade your Everything DiSC Certification!

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If you are already certified in Everything DiSC Workplace or Everything DiSC Management, did you know we are offering an upgrade to Everything DiSC Certification which includes all profiles and the new Catalyst platform?

Upon successful completion of the course exam, you will earn the credential of Everything DiSC® Certified Practitioner and it only costs $995.


Pre-requisites: All participants must have already completed an Everything DiSC® Workplace or Everything DiSC® Management Certification course.


During this course,you will:

-Discover Everything DiSC on Catalyst and how it enhances the delivery of DiSC.

-Explore how to build custom solutions and deliver impactful DiSC experiences with Catalyst using Workplace, Agile EQ™, and Management content.

-Demonstrate and reinforce their understanding of the DiSC model, theory, research, and key principles.

-Connect and engage with other Everything DiSC practitioners, sharing expertise and building community.


It's a 1-week course with approximately 10-12 hours of learning. This includes two live, instructor-led sessions (2 hours each) and self-directed asynchronous work.


Course dates are below on this site - just click on “certifications for you”, then “New! Everything DiSC Certification Upgrade”.


Make manager training easy!

Teach managers to successfully engage, motivate, and develop their people with the Everything DiSC Management Profile. It focuses on:

•Your DiSC Management style

•Directing and delegating

•Motivating and developing others

•Working with your manager

The Everything DiSC Management Profile offers participants insight into their strengths and challenges as managers, and how to adapt their style to meet the needs of the people they manage—making them more effective managers. In this 27-page profile, participants will discover their DiSC® Management style, explore strategies for effective directing and delegating, improve their working relationship with their own manager, and more. The profile may be used on its own or with the companion facilitation; sold separately. DM me for more info or a demo assessment.

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Build your culture's teamwork one team member at a time

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In the modern workplace, team members must navigate an environment that is in constant flux. That’s no easy task, and employees must be flexible, socially adept, and relationship-savvy in order to navigate interpersonal challenges and achieve collective gains within and across their teams. But solid teamwork doesn’t happen overnight, and it’s not necessarily an innate skill. Teamwork must be developed and practiced—and it requires the right framework in order to thrive. The Five Behaviors® Personal Development can be your solution for building a culture of teamwork. Call me for more info or a demo assessment!

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Develop agility and emotional intelligence in your workforce!

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Here's a valuable tool that helps your workforce be agile so they can make progress faster and pivot on short notice which is necessary now as our work environments become more volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous To stand firm in our ideas while remaining open to new perspectives.

Staying agile demands that we develop and use our emotional intelligence (EQ)—a level of sophistication that we’ve never demanded before.

The tool is Everything DiSC® Agile EQ™: a classroom training and personalized learning experience that teaches participants to read the emotional and interpersonal needs of a situation and respond accordingly.

By combining the personalized insights of DiSC® with active emotional intelligence development, participants discover an agile approach to workplace interactions and learn to navigate outside their comfort zone, empowering them meet the demands of any situation.  

Pairing their personalized, 26-page Everything DiSC Agile EQ Profile with a short facilitation session, your learners will: 

1. Discover the instinctive mindsets that shape their responses and interactions,

2. Recognize opportunities to stretch beyond what comes naturally to them,

3. Take action to become more agile in their approach to social and emotional situations.

The result is an emotionally intelligent workforce that can support your thriving agile culture. 

Interested to learn more? Contact me to discuss how Everything DiSC Agile EQ can help your organization today.

Pay Attention to Your Managers this year!

Gallup’s 2024 Engagement Strategies Checklist points out that managers are more likely to be burned out and disengaged than their teams.

They recommend the following to make sure your managers are in a good place going into the new year:

• Begin with listening. Gallup has found that identifying key listening posts for managers makes their needs known and helps establish ways to support them as effective team leaders.

• Improve leadership communication. Only 3 in 10 managers strongly agree their supervisor keeps them informed about what is going on within their organization. By providing straightforward, regular communication about organizational goals and policies, managers can reinforce and communicate priorities more effectively to their teams.

• Train and develop managers. Only 48% of managers strongly agree that they currently have the skills needed to be exceptional at their job. Organizations must teach managers to have meaningful conversations at the right frequency with their teams. In fact, Gallup recommends having a meaningful weekly conversation with each team member.

Everything DiSC Management on Catalyst supports all of these goals - dm me for more info or a demo!

Boost your workforce’s internal mobility - keep and retool your best!

LinkedIn Learning’s 2023 Workplace Report lays out a way to meet the survey results’ priority of sparking more internal mobility: L&D needs to connect with talent acquisition.

Within HR, ownership of internal mobility programs can be fuzzy, but it’s clear that L&D and Talent Acquisition can drive success by sharing insights and innovating to develop and source internal talent. Here’s how:

-Talent Acquisition develops a culture and process for internal hiring, prioritizing internal talent as a rich and promising hiring pool.

-L&D provides skill-building paths and resources, creating a pipeline of internal talent to match opportunities.

PXT Select provides data to identify skills and approaches of any employee, match them with internal job possibilities, and give L & D a roadmap for building relevant talent. Each assessment produces up to 13 reports than can be used over the life of the employee - from hiring to onboarding to manager relationships to team building to career development. DM me for a demo!

Understanding and Demonstrating Leadership

The word “leadership” is used so often and so generally that it is hard to know what it really means. This is a way to describe it - as 3 things people do to lead others: Vision, Alignment and Execution.

The Everything DiSC Work of Leaders assessment and related training helps us understand how well we do each of those, how we can improve each, and work most effectively with those we want to follow us. DM me for more info or a demo.

Introducing Your Groups on Catalyst!

Are some members of your team more focused on logic vs. feelings? Realities vs. possibilities? With Group Continua on Catalyst™, teams can quickly visualize the preferences and tendencies of the people they work with every day.

Group Continua offers a fun new way for teams to build connection and community using DiSC®. By plotting members along eight different behavioral continua, teams will uncover strengths, address challenges, and understand blind spots—ultimately helping them work (and perform!) better together.

DM me for a demo or more information!

Our products enhance each of these 2024 trends!


DECEMBER 18, 2023

6 Workplace Trends Leaders Should Watch in 2024

BY BEN WIGERT

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • Many organizations are revising how they do business

  • Relationships between workers and organizations are changing

  • To win in 2024, leaders must rethink their approach to people management

In 2024, employers and employees are heading for a relationship reset.

This shift partly stems from changes in where and how people work. In 2019, 60% of remote-capable employees spent their week working fully on-site, whereas that figure has fallen to just 20% in 2023.

But that’s not the complete story. Nearly five in 10 U.S. employees work fully on-site in jobs that can’t be hybrid or remote. And Gallup’s research indicates that how employees are managed has about four times as much influence on employee engagement and wellbeing as their work location.

Essentially, it’s the relationships workers have -- with their coworkers, managers, leaders and organization -- that are significantly evolving. Many organizations are radically retooling the ways they do business, leaving many employees, including managers, stressed and disconnected.

For example, when Gallup asked managers what changes their organization made in 2023:

  • 64% said employees were given additional job responsibilities

  • 51% cited the restructuring of teams

  • 42% reported budget cuts

To win in 2024, leaders should consider re-tooling their management strategies to better support the changing needs of their workforce and organizational culture. We recommend starting with a plan for assessing and addressing the following six trends that leaders should be paying attention to within their own organizations:

1. Global Worker Stress Remains at a Record High

Gallup’s recent State of the Global Workplace report revealed that employee engagement is rising worldwide. That’s good news. However, worker stress has remained at record high levels since the pandemic.

In the U.S. and Canada, employee stress is even higher, with 52% of employees reporting they experienced a lot of stress the previous day. This trend holds implications for peoples’ wellbeing at work and home, as well as their productivity and longevity.

As we move into 2024, which trend will win out: the ongoing rise in stress or the improvement in employee engagement?

Read: Globally, Employees Are More Engaged -- and More Stressed (gallup.com)

2. Engagement Is Slowly Recovering, With Some Areas for Improvement

Employee engagement levels in the U.S. started a slow crawl back in 2023 after a post-pandemic slump. But one particularly concerning trend is the decrease in employees who feel connected to their organization’s mission and purpose. This sense of connection inspires employees to go above and beyond basic job demands and push toward excellence. It also substantially boosts loyalty and retention.

Read: Are Remote Workers and Their Organizations Drifting Apart? (gallup.com)

3. Leaders Are Restoring Trust Yet Have Much Room for Improvement

Trust in organizational leadership significantly declined since the onset of the pandemic until it started to recover in 2023. Yet, today, only 23% of U.S. employees strongly agree that they trust the leadership of their organization. Undoubtedly, the hardships and disruptions of today’s new world of work have created headwinds for leaders. However, when leaders communicate clearly, lead and support change, and inspire confidence in the future, 95% of employees say they fully trust their leaders.

Read: Why Trust in Leaders Is Faltering and How to Gain It Back (gallup.com)

4. Managers Are Getting Squeezed

Changes to the workplace have hit managers especially hard. In 2023, managers were more likely than non-managers to be disengaged, burnt out and job hunting. They were also more likely to feel like their organization doesn’t care about their wellbeing and to say that they’re struggling with work-life balance.

These manager struggles are bad news for organizations because they trickle down to their teams. Managers serve as crucial connectors for team collaboration and effectiveness, accounting for 70% of the variance in employee engagement.

Overall, the “manager squeeze” largely comes from increased responsibilities and navigating numerous organizational changes. Gallup research shows that many managers now have more work to do on a tighter budget with new teams. And from a relationship standpoint, they often find themselves caught between aligning with new directives from leaders and meeting the changing expectations of their employees.

What’s certain is that managers will need more training and support to lead effectively in today’s new work environment riddled with new expectations for managers.

Read: The Manager Squeeze: How the New Workplace Is Testing Team Leaders (gallup.com)

5. Organizations Need a Long-Term Hybrid Work Strategy

Since mid-2022, work location trends for the U.S. workforce have largely stabilized, which implies that most employees are currently working where they expect to be working for the foreseeable future, based on employer communications. A separate survey of CHROs from Fortune 500 companies found that eight in 10 had no plans to decrease remote work flexibility in the next 12 months.

Given that hybrid work has become the norm for remote-capable workers and people have largely settled into their new routines, it’s time for leaders to optimize their hybrid workplace. That means doing things like creating a compelling workplace value proposition, empowering teams to collaborate more effectively, revising performance management systems, and training managers to be great hybrid coaches.

Read: The Future of the Office Has Arrived: It's Hybrid

6. Hybrid Culture Can Be Great -- If Done Right

Hybrid work offers the advantages of a more flexible work environment while also posing some unique challenges. In terms of advantages, hybrid workers have higher engagement, better overall wellbeing and lower turnover risk than fully on-site workers who are remote-capable -- which is good for business, too. Leaders and managers tend to recognize these benefits and report that hybrid work has reduced burnout, improved retention and expanded talent pools in their organization

At the same time, working apart more often and on different schedules creates some new obstacles. Organizations that plan to move forward with hybrid for the long term must thoughtfully create and fully commit to a strategy for how they best communicate, collaborate, build relationships and solidify their work culture.

Read: The Future of the Office Has Arrived: It's Hybrid

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Increase your sales using this tool!

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Engage your salespeople to adapt their style to their prospects and customers to improve results! Everything DiSC® Sales teaches participants to stretch beyond their natural Sales style to more effectively adapt to their customers’ preferences and expectations— regardless of the customer’s unique buying style. The experience is sales-specific with in-depth information, including tips, strategies, and action plans to help your salespeople become more effective.

The Everything DiSC® Sales Profile focuses on:

• Understanding your DiSC® style

• Recognizing and understanding customer buying styles

• Adapting your sales style to your customer’s buying style

• How to adapt DiSC style to meet the customer’s needs

DM me for more info and increase your organization's sales now!

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Make your hiring simpler and smarter!

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PXT Select™ helps make the very human decisions about hiring simpler and smarter.

- It is a powerful selection assessment that measures a candidate’s cognitive abilities, behaviors, and interests. Assessment results equip organizations and hiring managers with easy to understand information about the candidate, and provides intuitive questions to strengthen the interview process.

- PXT Select measures a candidate’s thinking style, behavioral traits, and interests: three areas that impact an individual’s approach to situations in the workplace.

- PXT Select provides data about a candidate’s cognitive abilities, behavioral traits, and interests, providing organizations with insights to make smart, wellformed hiring decisions.

- PXT Select - One Powerful Assessment – A Suite of Reports. For the price of just one assessment, PXT Select’s suite of reports help you select, onboard, coach, and develop employees. PXT Select offers the following reports:

Comprehensive Selection Report. Is the candidate a good fit? This powerful report helps you make smarter hiring decisions with confidence. Featuring dynamic interview questions and tips on “what to listen for” with each candidate, this report gives you a meaningful edge in your hiring process.

Comprehensive Selection Report: Sales. This powerful report helps identify a candidates fit to a role. It features dynamic interview questions to help strengthen the overall hiring process. With a focus on sales, this report highlights critical sales practices and describes how a candidate might demonstrate them, helping you select the right salespeople for your organization.

Leadership Report. This report is designed for selection but may also be used for coaching or development purposes. It provides one candidate’s results presented in graph form and linked to narrative about their possible approach to six leadership skills commonly required of organizational leaders. Each of the six leadership skills are illustrated in relation to the candidates results. The report includes a candidate’s potential leadership strengths and challenges, as well as customized questions that can be used to interview the candidate or analyze their leadership potential.

Multiple Positions Report. What’s the best fit for a particular individual? Compare a candidate or employee to multiple jobs in your organization.

Multiple Candidates Report. Make hiring decisions with ease. Compare multiple candidates for a single position.

Team Report. See how a potential candidate fits an existing team or address your current team’s dynamic and strengths.

Manager-Employee Report.Discover how a manager and employee can work more effectively together.

Individual’s Feedback Report.Candidates can learn from PXT Select, too! This narrative report doesn’t reveal scores and is perfectly safe to share with applicants.

Individual’s Feedback Report: Sales. Candidates can learn from PXT Select, too! This participant report offers personalized feedback to the candidate or employee using common sales language and does not include critical sales practices.

Individual’s Graph. Are you more of a visual person? The graph illustrates a candidate’s results that you can view at a glance.

Coaching Report. Wish you had coaching advice tailored to each employee? This report gives you exactly that and more!

Coaching Report: Sales. This report provides tailored coaching guidance giving managers personalized tips and strategies to develop their sales team members.

Performance Model Report.Understand the range of scores and behaviors for the position you’re trying to fill. Learn about the ideal candidate for that role.

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Introducing The combined Five Behaviors® Facilitation Kit!

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If you want to build a culture of teamwork in your organization, you can get certified in The Five Behaviors content, and The combined Five Behaviors® Facilitation Kit is now live! Bringing together both Personal and Team Development in a single kit, it will give you the flexibility to deliver the right solution for any organizational need.

What’s in the new kit?

 1. Team Development for building cohesive intact teams:

-1- and 3-day facilitation guide with videos and activities

-Customizable PowerPower® Point Slides

-Annotated Facilitator Reports

 2. Personal Development for building a culture of teamwork:

-Half-day facilitation guide with videos and activities

-Customizable PowerPoint® Slides

This combined Kit only costs $1,495 (previously $2,990) and you'll have what you need to lead sessions to build a common language around teamwork. It comes in downloadable or usb formats - DM me today to get one in your 2023 budget!

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