Five short modules for the people who manage other people. Worksmart sits on top of an Everything DiSC® on Catalyst™ profile and turns it into practice — about an hour per module, each facilitated by an Everything DiSC® Practitioner, each ending in an action plan the manager can use with their own team that week.
A manager reads their profile, recognizes themselves in it, and then goes back to a calendar that has not changed. The insight was accurate and nothing happened — because knowing your own style is not the same as knowing what to do on Thursday with the person who keeps missing deadlines.
What the manager walks away with
Five action plans, each tied to a situation they are actually in: a feedback conversation they have been putting off, a conflict that keeps resurfacing, a change the team has not accepted yet. The plans name real people rather than personas.
Where it lands
Management layers that already hold Catalyst™ profiles and need the next step, newly promoted managers who need practice rather than theory, and organizations where retention traces back to particular managers rather than to pay.
Five situations, not a curriculum
Each module takes one recurring management problem and works it through to a plan, rather than covering management as a subject.
About an hour per module
Facilitated by a Practitioner
An action plan out of each one
It runs on the profile they already have
Worksmart unlocks on the learner's existing Everything DiSC® on Catalyst™ account, so the guidance arrives already tuned to their style.
No second assessment
Add-on for existing profile holders
Or included from day one
Built around the manager's own people
The planning is done against named direct reports and live situations, which is what separates it from a session nobody applies.
Guidance by DiSC® style
Planned against real situations
Usable the same week
The five modules
Each one runs about an hour, is facilitated by an Everything DiSC® Practitioner, and ends in an action plan.
Giving Constructive Feedback
Feedback shaped around the person receiving it rather than feedback in general, so it reads as investment instead of criticism.
Navigating Conflict
Starts from the manager's own instinctive response to tension — what they do before they decide to do anything — and builds from there.
Empowering Your Team
How to hand over real ownership without either abandoning the person or quietly taking the work back.
Helping Your Team Navigate Change
Who needs the reasoning, who needs the timeline, and who needs to be asked — because styles meet uncertainty differently.
Motivating Your Team
What actually energizes each person and what quietly drains them, which is rarely what motivates the manager.
In the room
The profile is the input. The session is where it becomes useful.
How a Worksmart program usually runs
The modules are short by design, so a whole management layer can take one a month without anyone clearing a day. Most organizations run them in order and start with feedback, because it is the conversation managers avoid most.
Each module ends in a plan against a real situation, which is what makes the next one land — the manager arrives having already tried something and with something to report.
8 products · priced per learner; the add-on needs an existing Catalyst™ profile
New: five collaboration modules on the Workplace® foundation — constructive feedback, conflict, empowering others, navigating change, motivating others — with action-planning tools.
The Base Experience plus Worksmart's five collaboration modules — constructive feedback, conflict, empowering others, navigating change, motivating others — on the same account.
The full facilitation library behind you: materials, scripts, slide decks, handouts, and video for the Catalyst™ experiences — ready to run, session by session.
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.
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