The Everything DiSC® Catalyst platform lets you tap into coworkers’ strengths to conjure powerful synergy equations
There’s a famous African proverb that goes, “If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together.”
But going far isn’t that easy because there are other people involved with their own shades of personal dispositions, likes and dislikes, and working styles. But Everything DiSC® has cracked this code. It’s no longer difficult to ‘decipher’ others’ working styles for leveraging the synergistic value of working together.
“How’s it easy?” you ask… The answer to this is the Catalyst platform by Everything DiSC®.
What is Catalyst?
Catalyst is Wiley’s insightful solution with a key focus on comparing your DiSC profile with your coworkers. Using the Catalyst platform, you now have the power to make granular comparisons of your DiSC profile with the people you’re working with.
In addition to insights about your own DiSC profile, the Catalyst platform offers several comparative features, including:
- A detailed view of your colleagues’ DiSC profiles
- A side by side view of your profile with others’ profiles
- Your similarities and differences with others
- Possible causes of friction
- Opportunities to work together collaboratively
Major Features of the Catalyst Platform
Now that you’ve had a glimpse of the possibilities that Catalyst offers, let’s have a closer look at how this platform can be used to effectively connect with others. Let’s start with the major features Catalyst offers when you access someone else’s DiSC profile that’s available to you.
- That person’s DiSC style – The first thing you’ll see is your colleague’s dominant DiSC profile. You’ll also get a quick summary of that specific style. For example, this colleague has the D style:
- Profile highlights – A glance at this section will tell you what he cares about, the best situations to utilize his energies, and the situations that stress him out.
- Maps – Next, you’ll see your and his DiSC profile maps side-by-side. Here’s an example:
- Similarities & differences – This section gives two detailed lists of the elements that are similar and different between you two.
- Tendencies comparison – You’ll get a clear visual comparison of where you both fall on several characteristics like the pace of work and tactfulness. For example, these two colleagues focus on very different things:
- Working together – This is a very important feature of the Catalyst platform. It gives you four pieces of an important puzzle:
i. What to do if there’s friction between you two
ii. How to connect with your colleague
iii. How to collaborate effectively
iv. How to successfully get your colleague’s buy-in
Catalyst in Action: An example
Let’s look at an example to see how Catalyst works to deliver on its promise of effectively connecting and collaborating with others at the workplace. A consulting firm has created a temporary cross-functional team to solve a business problem for one of its clients. Mateo and Stephanie both have been called to work on this project.
Mateo is an engineer who’s responsible for the technical aspects of the project and Stephanie comes from a sales background and she’s here for contributing her marketing and sales insights. From the very start, Mateo felt there is a huge difference between his and Stephanie’s personalities. He finds her too direct and somewhat loud. He’s unable to connect with her and that could mean delays for the project because her sales knowledge is imperative for this project.
Miraculously, the project lead asks everyone to take an Everything DiSC® assessment and gives them access to the Catalyst platform. Mateo (an SC style himself) sits down one day and casually flips through his Catalyst account. Shortly after exploring his DiSC profile, he finds himself opening Stephanie’s profile (who’s a D style). The information on the Catalyst platform there grabs his attention immediately.
Here’s what he starts with:
He immediately discovers that she’s more driven toward getting results quickly and pushing forward regardless of what others think of her.
“That’s so different from how I like to work,” Mateo tells himself while reading more about her DiSC style. He goes on to see more of her profile and keeps discovering the range of their differences.
This makes him think it’s impossible to bridge these differences and work together in harmony – until he reaches the ‘Working Together’ section.
Here he finds a treasure trove of practical strategies to get over this barrier. For example, here’s what Mateo found when he went over to the Buy-in area:
Mateo’s thinking in excitement, “Here’s everything I could’ve possibly asked for!”
He immediately scribbles some notes in his notebook and resolves to make a ‘collaborative communication strategy’ to melt this ice and start working full-throttle with Stephanie soon.
Conclusion
Using the powerful Catalyst platform, you can not only go far, you can go fast as well. It’s possible because the Catalyst platform is built on the strong foundation of Everything DiSC® research but with the added features for stronger collaborations.
With such a wealth of information in your hands, the possibilities to maximize productive collaborations become unlimited. If you’re ready to leverage the power of this information, click here to see the three amazing options we’ve developed to get you on the Catalyst platform -quickly and affordably.
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