The Top 5 Reasons Why Your Team Needs Everything DiSC®
Artificial intelligence is reshaping how work gets done, automating processes, surfacing insights, and influencing how we collaborate across time zones and industries. But while technology continues to advance, one constant remains: success still depends on people working well together. Human interaction is complex. It can be slowed by miscommunication, mismatched expectations, or unresolved conflict. That’s why teams need a structured, proven way to help employees understand each other and collaborate more effectively.
Everything DiSC® is an assessment that measures an individual’s preferences and behaviors based on the DiSC model, helping people understand their natural tendencies. Traditionally, DiSC has been viewed as an individual personal development tool. But it can also strengthen teams by giving leaders and employees a common language for understanding one another, closing skills gaps, and building trust faster. Instead of hoping team chemistry happens, you can intentionally design it.
To make these insights practical in everyday work, organizations use Catalyst™, an online platform that supports individuals and teams to work smarter by integrating DiSC into daily collaboration and decision-making.
Here are the top five reasons why DiSC is the go-to tool for teams:
1. It Builds Emotional Intelligence Across the Team
90% of top performers have high emotional intelligence.
Emotional intelligence (EQ) is one of the most in-demand professional skills in the workplace. Teams that recognize their natural communication and decision-making habits—and how others might perceive them—are better equipped to adapt, empathize, and connect.
Everything DiSC® lays the foundation for EQ by helping people identify their own behaviors and recognize those in others. For example, a “D” (Dominance) style teammate may prefer quick, decisive action, while a “C” (Conscientiousness) style teammate might value precision and accuracy. Without awareness, these differences can cause frustration. With awareness, they become complementary strengths.
Gallup’s research shows that teams with higher engagement, fueled by trust and understanding, are more profitable. When team members feel seen and understood, they are more willing to bring their best selves to work.
DiSC accelerates this process by making the invisible visible. Instead of misinterpreting someone’s behavior as “difficult” or “uncooperative,” team members see it as a predictable preference and learn how to flex their own approach. That shift strengthens emotional intelligence at both the individual and team level.
Teams with higher engagement are 23% more profitable.
2. It Improves Workplace Communication
Teams with 100 employees waste 17 hours per week clarifying miscommunication,
costing over $500,000 annually.
Miscommunication is one of the biggest drains on productivity. DiSC gives teams a shared language to explain differences in workplace communication styles. The Catalyst platform offers advice on connecting, collaborating, and getting buy-in from colleagues based on their style. For example:
With an “i” (Influence) style colleague, you might lead with enthusiasm and big-picture ideas.
With an “S” (Steadiness) style colleague, you’d slow down, listen carefully, and show consistency.
With a “C” style colleague, you’d bring data and logic to support your proposal.
By equipping employees with these insights, leaders help their teams cut through misunderstandings and adapt communication to the person in front of them.
3. It Helps Manage and Resolve Conflict
75% of cross-functional teams fail to meet key goals such as staying on schedule, hitting budget targets, or delivering expected results.
Conflict in teams is inevitable. The question is whether conflict becomes destructive or constructive.
Harvard Business Review found that most cross-functional teams miss critical goals, often because differences turn into roadblocks rather than opportunities. Everything DiSC® helps teams prevent that outcome by giving them tools to approach tension productively. Instead of personalizing conflict, DiSC reframes it as a difference in perspective. That reframing helps teams depersonalize tension, address the root issue, and move forward together.
DiSC and the Catalyst platform provide specific advice on conflict resolution, showing how each style reacts under stress and how to keep disagreements from escalating. For example, someone with a “D” style may push harder in debate, while an “S” style may retreat to avoid confrontation. By surfacing these tendencies, teams can plan for them in advance.
4. It Strengthens Professional Skills and Collaboration
Catalyst maps show team trends and gaps at a glance.
The Catalyst platform gives teams a clear picture of how members are distributed across the DiSC map. This visualization makes it easier to spot trends and gaps in the group’s overall makeup. For example, a team filled mostly with C (Conscientiousness) employees might find it easy to align on details and accuracy, but adding a new member with a different style could introduce tension. Seeing these dynamics up front helps leaders anticipate challenges, set expectations, and turn differences into strengths rather than conflict.
Beyond awareness, Everything DiSC helps sharpen professional skills like giving feedback, influencing others, leading meetings, and collaborating across functions. Cross-functional work is notoriously difficult, often derailed by misaligned goals or poor communication. DiSC addresses these challenges directly by:
Mapping team strengths and blind spots with Catalyst’s group insights.
Highlighting shared tendencies and gaps where important perspectives may be missing.
Providing conversation starters that make soft skills development concrete and actionable.
These features make DiSC both an assessment and a practical tool for continuous learning and stronger collaboration. Leaders can revisit the platform with their teams to prepare for new projects, onboard new members, or reset after conflict.
5. It Supports Continuous Learning and Workforce Development
74% of learners return to Catalyst after their initial training.
One of the biggest mistakes organizations make is treating workforce development as a one-time event. A workshop happens, people feel inspired, and then it’s back to business as usual. The problem? Old habits return, and the impact fades.
Everything DiSC® avoids this trap because the Catalyst platform is designed for repeated use. Employees can log back in to compare styles with new colleagues, revisit strategies for handling tension, or explore new collaboration advice as projects change.
This makes DiSC a powerful part of long-term employee retention strategies. When employees feel their growth is supported through continuous learning and development of soft skills, they are more likely to stay, contribute, and thrive.
As organizations prepare for the future of work, where adaptability and collaboration are non-negotiable, DiSC provides a scalable, evidence-based way to close the skills gap and build resilience across the workforce.
The Bottom Line
When teams truly understand each other, they don’t just get along, they get results.
Teams don’t thrive on chance chemistry. They thrive when organizations deliberately create the conditions for trust, adaptability, and connection. Everything DiSC® is the proven tool to make that happen, bridging skills gaps, strengthening professional skills, and embedding the kind of continuous learning that drives performance well into the future.
Because when teams truly understand each other, they don’t just get along, they get results.
Leaders who integrate DiSC into their employee engagement strategies often see stronger collaboration, healthier debates, and less workplace drama.
Ready to See Your Team’s Map?
At Mt. Vernon Consulting, we use the Everything DiSC® assessment to help teams close the skills gap, strengthen soft skills, and build the kind of workplace communication that fuels lasting success. Our workforce development programs weave in conflict resolution, emotional intelligence, and employee engagement to prepare teams for the future of work.
Want to see what your team’s Everything DiSC® map looks like? Let’s talk. We'll show you how Everything DiSC® can transform your team and give you the tools to thrive today and tomorrow.