Discover Worksmart: Your Key to Team Success
Managing people is hard work. You’re juggling feedback conversations, navigating conflicts, motivating different personalities, and guiding teams through constant change—all while trying to hit your own targets. Does that sound familiar?
After twenty years of supporting managers across every sector imaginable, we’ve noticed something crucial: most managers don’t struggle because they lack ability. They struggle because they lack the right tools when they need them most. Truth be told, the times I have been engaged in people management, I, too, have had my struggles.
That’s exactly why Everything DiSC® Worksmart deserves your attention. It’s not another training manual gathering dust on a shelf. It’s something completely different.
Understanding Worksmart: What It Actually Is
Everything DiSC Worksmart is an add-on to the Catalyst platform—your digital home for DiSC insights. Think of it as your management toolkit living right where you already work, accessible whenever difficult situations arise.
Here’s what makes it genuinely useful: Worksmart provides immediate access to five essential topics, each tackling genuine challenges you face daily. When you’re about to deliver tough feedback or help someone through a significant change, you don’t have time to search through generic training materials.
You need specific, actionable guidance right now. That’s Worksmart’s real value. It assists you in creating personalised action plans in the moment, tailored to both your style and your team member’s behavioural preferences.
The Five Essential Management Challenges
Worksmart focuses on situations that genuinely test managers:
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• Giving Constructive Feedback – Nobody enjoys delivering criticism. We understand. But avoiding difficult conversations doesn’t make problems vanish. This module helps you recognise your natural feedback style and how to adjust your approach based on who receives it. -
• Managing Conflict – Conflict happens. Always has, always will. The question isn’t whether you’ll encounter it, but how you’ll handle it when it arrives. This module explores your instinctive responses during conflict and teaches you to recognise that others react completely differently based on their DiSC styles. -
• Empowering Your Team – Decent managers tell people what to do. Outstanding managers help people discover their capabilities. Worksmart guides you in creating custom empowerment plans for each team member, because what empowers one person might restrict another. -
• Helping Your Team Navigate Change – Change happens constantly. Resistance to change? That’s pretty constant, too. This module helps you understand how different styles respond to change and what each person needs to adapt successfully. -
• Motivating Your Team – What energises you might drain someone else entirely. Worksmart explores motivation through the DiSC lens, helping you create environments where everyone feels genuinely inspired.
How Worksmart Actually Works in Practice
Let’s break down the experience step by step. It’s simpler than you might imagine.
First, you’ll complete Everything DiSC Workplace on Catalyst. That’s your essential foundation. It helps you understand yourself, appreciate different behavioural styles, and recognise how to adapt to various situations. Everyone should start here before accessing Worksmart.
Once that’s complete, Worksmart becomes available directly within your Catalyst profile.
Each topic comes with a focused, one-hour, once-done training session. These can either be facilitated by your in-house learning and development professional or can be self-taught, provided the manager possesses sound knowledge of the DiSC model. Alternatively, you can engage a certified DiSC facilitator. These aren’t theoretical lectures discussing abstract concepts. They’re practical, engaging modules designed for immediate application.
During each session, you’ll explore the topic through your DiSC lens. You’ll discover your natural tendencies, learn about others’ perspectives, and most importantly, create actionable plans you can implement straightaway.
Here’s where it gets particularly interesting: you don’t need to complete all five modules simultaneously. Tackle them as needs arise. Facing a conflict next week? Jump into that module. Need to deliver tough feedback tomorrow? There’s a module specifically for that situation.
The Catalyst Platform Advantage
Everything lives on the Catalyst digital platform. It’s accessible from anywhere, whenever you need it. Got a challenging conversation scheduled for this afternoon? Log into Catalyst, review your action plan, and walk into that meeting properly prepared.
Your team members don’t necessarily need to have completed DiSC themselves, though it certainly helps. As a manager, you can judge their potential styles and adjust your approach accordingly.
The platform stores your action plans so that you can reference them repeatedly. Knowledge does not disappear after training—it’s support that stays with you.
Why Worksmart Matters Right Now
Research reveals something sobering: effective managers boost employee retention three times and performance up to fifteen times. Yet 59% of managers lack proper training for their roles.
Think about that statistic. More than half of managers are expected to lead teams, develop people, and drive results—without adequate preparation or support. The consequences? Disengaged employees, deteriorating cultures, and disappointing performance across entire organisations.
Worksmart addresses this gap head-on. It doesn’t replace comprehensive leadership development programmes. Instead, it complements them by providing just-in-time support for specific challenges as they emerge.
What Makes Worksmart Different from Traditional Training
Over the past two decades, we’ve observed countless management training programmes. Most suffer from the same fundamental problem: they’re disconnected from daily reality.
You attend a workshop, learn theories, or participate in role-playing exercises. Then you return to your desk and face identical challenges with the same limited toolkit you had before training.
Worksmart flips that model completely. It meets you where you are, when you need support. The learning is compressed into focused, one-hour, one off sessions. Then the action plans are specific to your situation and team members’ needs.
There’s no theoretical fluff. No impressive-sounding frameworks that don’t translate to practice. Just practical, behavioural insights grounded in the thoroughly researched DiSC model that’s been validated across millions of users worldwide.
Building Effective Management Cultures
Here’s something we’ve observed repeatedly across sectors: organisations with strong management cultures don’t just have better managers. They have better outcomes everywhere.
Teams perform better when managers understand behavioural styles and can adapt their approaches. People stay longer, innovation increases, engagement soars, and problems are addressed before they escalate.
At My Training Shop, we've witnessed this transformation first-hand. Worksmart contributes to this cultural shift by giving every manager access to identical foundational tools and language. It creates consistency without forcing everyone into identical approaches, essential because different managers leading different teams need different strategies.
Getting Started with Worksmart
If you’re wondering whether Worksmart suits your organisation, consider these questions:
- Do your managers struggle with difficult conversations?
- Are conflicts handled inconsistently across different teams?
- Do you see significant variations in how managers motivate their people?
- Too much second-guessing going on?
If you answered yes to any of these, Worksmart on Catalyst deserves serious consideration.
The Worksmart facility works best when managers understand DiSC fundamentals through Everything DiSC Workplace. That foundation makes the Worksmart modules significantly more impactful because managers can immediately connect concepts to their experiences.
NB: up until December 2025, we should be able to convert a previous Everything DiSC report to Catalyst - Either set up a meeting or enquire.
Or for new clients:
You can simply go ahead and place your order for DiSC on Catalyst here You can simply enter Worksmart as an add-on for each individual allocated. OR order DiSC on Catalyst Base, then request we add Worksmart at a later stage.
Remember, though, as for all Everything DiSC profiles, it works at its best for improved organisational culture if everyone has a DiSC Workplace report.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: How is Worksmart different from regular DiSC assessments?
A: Worksmart builds on your Everything DiSC Workplace foundation but provides targeted support for specific management challenges. It’s not another assessment—it’s an application toolkit that helps you use your DiSC knowledge in real situations.
Q: Do all my team members need DiSC assessments for Worksmart to work?
A: Ideally, yes, but it’s not essential. Managers can judge team members’ likely styles and create effective action plans. However, having everyone’s actual DiSC profiles makes the process more accurate.
Q: Can managers complete the modules at their own pace?
A: Absolutely. Each module takes approximately one hour and can be completed as needed. Managers can tackle modules in any order based on their current challenges.
Q: How quickly will we see results from implementing Worksmart?
A: It's early days since the launch of Worksmart, so we don’t have any firm data to share at this stage; however, many managers are reporting immediate improvements in specific situations after completing relevant modules. That said, the most significant cultural shifts typically emerge over 3-6 months as managers consistently apply their learning.
Taking Your Next Step
Effective managers aren’t born—they’re developed. However, development doesn’t require lengthy programmes or expensive initiatives. Sometimes it needs the right tool at precisely the right moment.
That’s what Worksmart offers: accessible, practical, behavioural insights that help managers navigate their toughest challenges with genuine confidence.
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