For the people who manage other people — new supervisors and long-serving directors alike. Management takes the same DiSC® foundation and turns it on the four things a manager actually does: directing, delegating, motivating, and developing, each one matched to the person in front of them.
A manager who was promoted for being good at the work now has to get results through other people, and is managing everyone the way they themselves would want to be managed. It works for the direct reports who happen to be like them and quietly fails for the rest.
What the learner walks away with
Their own management style, how it reads from below, and what to change per direct report — including how to manage upward, which is the part most programs leave out.
Where it lands
New manager cohorts, a management layer that has never had shared language, and organizations where retention problems trace back to specific managers rather than to pay.
Directing and delegating
How this manager assigns work, and where their default creates either bottlenecks or ambiguity.
Own tendencies named
Read per direct report
Adjustments that fit real workloads
Motivating and developing
What this manager finds motivating, why that does not transfer, and how to develop someone who works nothing like them.
Motivators mapped by style
Development conversations by style
Where good intentions misfire
Managing up
The relationship with their own manager, read through the same model — often the most immediately useful section.
Reading a manager's priorities
Framing a request so it lands
Escalation without friction
In the room
The profile is the input. The session is where it becomes useful.
How a Management program usually runs
Management is most valuable when the whole management layer goes through it together, because the shared vocabulary is what survives the session. A cohort of ten is the usual unit.
Where Workplace® profiles already exist, the Management add-on extends those learners rather than starting a new population — no second assessment, same account.
7 products · priced per learner; the add-on needs an existing Catalyst™ profile
Everything in the Base Experience, plus the application built for people who manage others: direct, delegate, motivate, and develop, matched to each direct report.
A team's DiSC® styles side by side — culture, priorities, and blind spots at a glance. Included with an active Catalyst™ Practitioner Experience; otherwise charged per report.
The session leader's view of the group: each participant's style, the culture it adds up to, and where the conversation will need care. Included with an active Catalyst™ Practitioner Experience; otherwise charged per report.
Symphony 100 is an independent authorized partner of Everything DiSC® and The Five Behaviors®, and is not affiliated with Wiley. Everything DiSC® and The Five Behaviors® are development tools, never hiring or selection tools.