Two parts: the Base Experience, and the live workshop built on it
Everything DiSC® on Catalyst™ Base Experience is where every Everything DiSC® on Catalyst™ program begins: the Everything DiSC® assessment, a personal Everything DiSC Workplace® profile each learner keeps, and ongoing access to the Catalyst™ platform, where each person explores their own style and compares it with colleagues.
The Workshop Package delivers the Base Experience to your team in two live, online sessions led by a Certified Everything DiSC® Practitioner, for your own cohort of up to 10. In the first session, each person uses their profile to understand their own style. In the second, the team applies those insights to the working relationships it relies on every day. The profiles, the team report and the Catalyst™ access are all included in the price.
A short overview of the Everything DiSC® model and the research behind it: the assessment is tested and retested for accuracy, engagement, and learner satisfaction.
WHY TEAMS BOOK THE WORKSHOP
Small misunderstandings add up
Imagine you manage a team of ten. Deadlines slip, two colleagues clash in every planning meeting, and your most careful analyst has stopped offering ideas. Nobody is lazy and nobody is wrong. Each person approaches the same moment differently, and each person reads the others wrong.
Mismatched communication styles slowly wear down productivity, trust and morale, often without anyone noticing the cause. The Workshop Package gives your team a shared understanding of those styles and practical ways to adapt, so the team spends less energy on friction and more on the work.
Fewer misunderstandings
Team members recognize the style behind a colleague's directness, caution or enthusiasm, and stop taking it personally.
Less friction, more engagement
People adapt how they communicate, which reduces workplace tension and makes the work more enjoyable and productive.
One shared language
The whole team uses the same words to talk about how each person likes to work, so a potential clash turns into a plan.
People who stay
More engaged employees are less likely to leave early, and a team that understands each other is a team people want to stay on.
PURPOSE AND KEY OBJECTIVES
What the workshop is for
Organizations book this workshop for a business reason: friction between people costs money. Misread messages delay projects, unresolved tension pulls managers away from the work, and people who feel misunderstood disengage or leave.
The purpose of the Workshop Package is to help your team cut those costs, so more of the team's time and energy goes into the results your organization is measured on: productivity, retention and, in the end, profitability.
To get there, by the end of the two sessions participants will:
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Understand their own style
Each participant understands their Everything DiSC® style and how that style influences their interactions at work.
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Recognize and appreciate other styles
Participants recognize the styles of their colleagues, which supports collaboration and reduces misunderstandings.
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Adapt how they communicate
Participants develop practical strategies to adapt their communication, reducing conflict and increasing productivity.
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Keep learning on Catalyst™
Participants keep using the Everything DiSC® on Catalyst™ platform, so the skills are reinforced long after the workshop ends.
Your objectives may differ. Symphony 100 discusses these objectives with you up front. If your team has different priorities, the objectives and the emphasis of the sessions are adjusted to match. Results vary with each team's culture, participation and follow-through: results disclaimer.
WHY A WORKSHOP
Why not just read the reports on your own?
Imagine you lead a ten-person product team. Everyone has taken the assessment and opened their profile. A week later, most people remember their style, a few have explored Catalyst™, and Tuesday's planning meeting runs exactly as before. The team read the reports, but the team's habits did not change.
A shared conversation instead of ten private readings. The team compares styles together, live, with polls and breakout discussions.
Practice as well as insight. Guided exercises work on the team's real working relationships, including difficult conversations and feedback.
A certified facilitator in the room. The facilitator answers questions as they come up and keeps every exercise tied to how your team actually works.
Follow-through after the sessions. Each participant leaves with post-session resources and an action plan, and Catalyst™ keeps the learning part of everyday work.
WHO SHOULD FACILITATE
Internal, external or hybrid: choose the delivery that fits your needs
Some organizations certify their own facilitator, some bring in an external partner, and many combine the two. Our guide to choosing and developing facilitators compares the strengths, risks and best practices of each approach. If you would rather deliver the program in-house, these are the two places to start:
Facilitate in-house
Everything DiSC® on Catalyst™ Practitioner Experience
Everything an internal facilitator needs to run the sessions: facilitation content, tools, resources, and know-how on Catalyst™. Facilitator and Group Culture Reports are included.
Anyone who facilitates should also consider Everything DiSC® Certification: training and certification from Wiley, the publisher of Everything DiSC®, in interpreting profiles and leading sessions with confidence. It comes with the certification course and the other items a facilitator needs.
For teams that want a highly professional, interactive, results-oriented program delivered for them, Symphony 100 is pleased to offer this Workshop Package.
TWO WAYS TO START
The 90-minute introduction, or the full Workshop Package?
Symphony 100 offers two live online workshops on Everything DiSC Workplace® on Catalyst™. They serve different buyers.
Two live, online sessions of 90 minutes each on a private Zoom link, led by a Certified Everything DiSC® Practitioner
10 Everything DiSC® on Catalyst™ Base Experience assessments and Everything DiSC Workplace® profiles, with ongoing access to the Catalyst™ platform for every participant
10 Everything DiSC Workplace® Supplements for Facilitators, for participants who like detail and want additional insight
One team report of your choice: the Everything DiSC® Facilitator Report or the Everything DiSC® Group Culture Report
One Everything DiSC® Team View Report
Post-session resources and an action plan for each participant
THE TWO LIVE SESSIONS
Three hours, two sessions, one team that works better together
Both sessions run live and online on a private Zoom link and on the Catalyst™ platform, with polls, breakout discussions and application exercises. From time to time, a producer assists the facilitator to keep the delivery smooth and professional. Schedule the sessions one week apart, and no more than three weeks apart, so the first session is still fresh when the second begins. An optional third session, on Your Groups and action planning, can follow.
SESSION 1 · 90 MINUTES
Building awareness
Participants leave with greater self-awareness and a clearer view of how their style shapes daily interactions.
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Welcome and who is whoEach participant introduces their role and one tip colleagues should know about working with them, so the facilitator and the group know who is in the room.
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The Everything DiSC® modelThe four styles, the two questions that sit under the model, and why no style is better than another.
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Your profileEach participant works through their own Everything DiSC Workplace® profile: the priorities that drive their behavior, and what energizes and drains them at work.
4
Your colleaguesHow each style sees and reacts to workplace challenges, and how to recognize a colleague's style from everyday cues.
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Wrap-up and a task for Session 2Before the next session, each participant compares styles with two colleagues on Catalyst™.
SESSION 2 · 90 MINUTES
Applying DiSC® at work
Participants turn insight into practical tools they can use right away to build more meaningful working relationships.
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Check-inWhat participants noticed about themselves and their colleagues since Session 1.
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You and other stylesHow each style responds to conflict, feedback and collaboration, and how to adjust your approach to each one.
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One relationship that mattersEach participant chooses a key working relationship and uses the Catalyst™ comparison and Get Advice to plan a better way of working together.
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Practice in breakout roomsSmall groups rehearse a challenging conversation using what they learned.
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Action plan and closeEach participant leaves with an action plan, and the team agrees how it will keep using the shared language.
OPTIONALSESSION 3 · 60 MINUTES · YOUR GROUPS ON CATALYST™
Your Groups and action planning
Sessions 1 and 2 cover the basics of each application. This optional session takes the program to the next level: the team turns individual insights into a plan for the whole team. Some teams run this session on their own; others ask Symphony 100 to facilitate it.
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Your team on one mapThe team builds a group on Catalyst™ and reads the group's style mix, strengths and areas for growth.
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Using Your Groups in practiceYour Groups is not limited to one group. Participants learn to build different groupings over time, small and large, as people join and leave: a project team, a leadership team, a new-hire cohort.
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The intentionThe team discusses what the group view is for, and how the team will and will not use it.
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PrivacyLearners who prefer not to share their style can opt out from the Privacy tab in Catalyst™ and change the setting at any time.
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Team action planThe team leaves with shared commitments for how it wants to work together.
A guide, not a script. The time spent on each topic varies with the group, so the facilitator adjusts the pace to your team. Symphony 100 also reviews this syllabus on a regular basis and adjusts the topics and activities to better meet clients' needs, so the outline above is subject to change.
What each person takes away
Team membersRecognize and respect different styles, adjust communication to avoid misunderstandings, and approach difficult conversations with confidence.
Leaders and managersIdentify and adapt to the styles of direct reports, tailor communication to the whole team, and build a culture of trust and respect.
HR and facilitatorsSupport managers in creating workplaces where every style is recognized, and equip teams to anticipate and resolve interpersonal challenges.
WHERE SESSION 1 STARTS
Four styles, one shared language
Everyone is a blend of all four Everything DiSC® styles, and one, two or even three usually stand out. No style is better than another: every style brings strengths, and every style has blind spots. Session 1 shows each participant where they fall and why they react the way they do.
Tap a style to see how it shows up at work:
D · Dominance
People with a strong D style tend to be: Direct, firm, strong-willed, forceful.
Catalyst™ turns self-understanding and understanding of others into tools people use, in a practical and visual way. Every participant keeps access after the sessions and comes back to it in the moments that matter: before a meeting, when a new person joins, or when a project team gets stuck.
Your Colleagues
Pick any colleague and see your two styles side by side: what you have in common, where you are likely to misread each other, and tips for working together. Learners use it before a first meeting, a handover, or a difficult conversation.
Your Groups
Put any set of people on one map and see the group's style mix at a glance. Conversation Starters then give the group prompts for getting to know each other, making decisions together, and communicating clearly.
Group Continua
See where each member falls on spectrums such as logic versus feelings, or realities versus possibilities. The group spots its natural tilt and the perspectives it tends to leave out when it decides.
Get Advice
Ask for advice on a real situation, such as building a relationship, working through a tension, or getting buy-in, and receive tips written for your style and the other person's.
Learner privacy
Learners who prefer not to share their style can opt out from the Privacy tab in Catalyst™ and change the setting at any time.
Groups you can build with Your Groups
Your own teamSee the team's style mix before a planning session or offsite.
A project teamMap a cross-functional team at kick-off, before friction starts.
The leadership teamSee how the people who set direction lean, and who is missing.
New hiresHelp a cohort learn how their new colleagues work.
Any pair or trioA manager and direct report, or three peers sharing a deadline.
HOW IT WORKS
From order to action plan in four steps
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Order, then a logistics call
Order the package for your cohort. The first step after your order is a call with Symphony 100 to go through the logistics: who is taking part, how the assessments go out, and what your team wants from the workshop.
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Everyone completes the assessment
Every participant completes the Everything DiSC® on Catalyst™ assessment. Symphony 100 confirms that all the assessments are in before the workshop is scheduled, so no session time is spent on filling in the assessment.
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Schedule the two sessions
Once the assessments are complete, Symphony 100 schedules the two live sessions with you, one to three weeks apart.
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Two live sessions, then keep going
Session 1 builds awareness and Session 2 puts DiSC® to work. Each participant leaves with an action plan and post-session resources, and keeps using Catalyst™ long after the workshop.
YOUR TEAM REPORT
See the whole team, not just the individuals
Two reports turn the team's individual profiles into a picture of the group, and each one has a different job. The package includes the one you choose.
13 pages
Group Culture Report
FOR THE WHOLE TEAM · 13 PAGES · NO NAMES
Shows the team its culture: the distribution of styles, and how the group's shared tendencies shape decisions, pace, and communication. Because it names no one, you can hand it to everyone.
Want both? Add the second report for $150 at checkout.
WHO IT IS FOR
Select your organization type
Tap your organization type to see why teams like yours choose the Base Experience.
startups & scaleups.
Why teams like yours choose the Base Experience
Startups and scale-ups
Set how the founding team communicates before rapid hiring sets it for you.
Give first-time managers a quick read on the people they now lead.
Treat co-founder friction as a difference in style, not a doubt about commitment.
investors & portfolio companies.
Why teams like yours choose the Base Experience
Investors and portfolio companies
Offer founders a proven people tool alongside your capital.
Spot team friction early, before it shows up in missed milestones.
Give every portfolio company the same language for how people work together.
high-tech companies.
Why teams like yours choose the Base Experience
High-tech companies
Bridge engineering, product, and customer-facing teams that see the same problem differently.
Keep the learning in a tool people open on the job, not a one-off training day.
Prepare technical experts for their first role leading people.
research centers.
Why teams like yours choose the Base Experience
Research centers
Give independent researchers a shared vocabulary for working across labs.
Ease tension between principal investigators, staff, and students.
Help cross-institution teams agree on how they decide together.
biotech & life sciences.
Why teams like yours choose the Base Experience
Biotech and life sciences
Connect scientific, clinical, regulatory, and commercial teams that think very differently.
Keep a specialized team aligned through long development cycles and setbacks.
Prepare scientists stepping into their first people-leadership role.
healthcare.
Why teams like yours choose the Base Experience
Healthcare
Smooth handoffs between clinical, nursing, and administrative staff under time pressure.
Help colleagues see what drains each other before stress turns into conflict.
Prepare clinicians taking on team-lead and department roles.
financial services.
Why teams like yours choose the Base Experience
Financial services
Name the pull between risk-minded and growth-minded colleagues as a difference in style.
Learn how each colleague prefers to receive information and decisions.
Give client-facing staff a practical way to adapt to each client.
professional services firms.
Why teams like yours choose the Base Experience
Professional services firms
Help partners, managers, and associates work well together under deadline pressure.
Give client-facing staff a way to read each client's style and adapt.
Stand up project teams fast, with a quick read on how each member works.
multinational companies.
Why teams like yours choose the Base Experience
Multinational and cross-border teams
Use one framework across languages, time zones, and cultures.
Separate style from culture, so people stop mistaking one for the other.
Help colleagues who rarely meet understand each other quickly.
remote & hybrid teams.
Why teams like yours choose the Base Experience
Remote and hybrid teams
Replace the hallway cues remote teams lose with styles visible on Catalyst™.
See a distributed team on one map with Your Groups.
Prepare for a call with advice written for the other person's style.
government & large organizations.
Why teams like yours choose the Base Experience
Government and large organizations
Ease friction across departments and levels in complex structures.
Give managers in every unit one consistent language.
Roll out the same experience to hundreds or thousands of people.
mid-sized companies.
Why teams like yours choose the Base Experience
Mid-sized companies
Keep communication clear as the company outgrows the habits that worked when everyone knew everyone.
Give a growing layer of middle managers one language for leading.
Reconnect departments that are drifting into silos.
small & family businesses.
Why teams like yours choose the Base Experience
Small and family businesses
Talk about differences without making them personal, including between family members.
Agree on who decides what when everyone wears several hats.
Give the owner a clear read on each person, so delegating feels safer.
education.
Why teams like yours choose the Base Experience
Education
Help faculty, staff, and administrators work across departments.
Give teams a shared language for different working styles.
Prepare academic leaders who move into management with little formal training.
nonprofits & mission-driven organizations.
Why teams like yours choose the Base Experience
Nonprofits and mission-driven organizations
Keep passionate staff and volunteers working together when resources are tight.
Help board members and staff understand how each other works.
Make development time count, with a tool people keep using.
coaches, trainers & consultants.
Why teams like yours choose the Base Experience
Coaches, trainers, and consultants
Add a research-backed assessment to your coaching or training practice.
Deliver it to clients yourself, or with Symphony 100 as your supplier or delivery team. The client relationship stays yours.
Give each client an interactive profile to use between your sessions.
PRICING
One price for your cohort
Base Experience Workshop Package Up to 10 participants: two live sessions, 10 profiles, one team report and the Team View Report
$3,500
Extra participants Add up to two more people, for a cohort of 12
+$150 each
Second team report Get both the Facilitator Report and the Group Culture Report
+$150
Optional third session: Your Groups and action planning A 60-minute session facilitated by Symphony 100, for 10, 11 or 12 participants
+$825
Prices are in US dollars. Sales tax, where applicable, is calculated at checkout.
Why we keep cohorts small
The best learning happens in engaging, interactive groups where every participant is seen, heard and involved. Each cohort is capped at 10 participants and can grow to 12 without sacrificing quality. Smaller groups give:
deeper discussion and participation
more opportunity for personal feedback
a closer connection between the facilitator and the participants
More than 12 people?
Order one package per cohort. Several cohorts can run in parallel or one after another, so different departments, locations or leadership levels all get the same experience. Symphony 100 coordinates the scheduling across cohorts.
Workshops are delivered remotely. Anything customized, such as different timing or content, and other arrangements (including in-person) are by custom quote on a call: Coaching, Consulting & Program Services →
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