Productive Conflict

Everything DiSC®

Turn Workplace Tension into Positive Results

Conflict is inevitable. Left unchecked, it can damage trust and stall performance. However, when approached productively, conflict can become a powerful tool for collaboration, problem-solving, and innovation.

Why It Matters

Patrick Lencioni, in his bestselling book The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, highlights conflict as a cornerstone of high-performing teams. Conflict is not about fighting—it is about debating ideas, challenging assumptions, and committing to the best path forward. Productive conflict unlocks better decisions and stronger teams.

With Everything DiSC®, participants gain practical insights they can apply immediately, regardless of prior DiSC experience.

What’s Included in the Productive Conflict Profile

Everything DiSC® Productive Conflict profile is a 23-page report that helps a person understand their DiSC® Style, their priorities in Conflict, and how to engage with others who have a different DiSC® Style. The profile provides:

A personalized report
Insights into your DiSC style in conflict
Strategies to transform destructive behaviors
Guidance for building trust and collaboration

This report is designed to be used with the Everything DiSC® Productive Conflict facilitation kit. 

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13 – 24	$114
25 – 37	$108
38 – 49	$104
50 – 74	$102
75 – 99	$100
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The DiSC® Advantage

Before people can engage in productive conflict, they must first understand themselves—and others. Everything DiSC® provides a simple, research-based model that helps explain why we respond the way we do and how we can adapt. Unlike traditional four-quadrant DiSC® tools, Everything DiSC® digs deeper, showing where individuals may have blended styles and how that impacts behavior in conflict.

Bring Productive Conflict to Your Team

This assessment is most powerful when paired with a facilitated training program. Together, they help employees learn to navigate tension constructively, build trust, and unlock their full potential as a team.

The image above shows a completed Everything DiSC Productive Conflict report.

You can see that, based on this person's results, they received an iD-Style. The location of their dot tells both what their DiSC Style is, and how inclined (or tied) they are to their behavioral style. This person is strongly inclined because the dot is on the outer edge of the circle.

Once you complete your Everything DiSC® Productive Conflict assessment, you will receive both your DiSC Style and your Conflict Priorities. These two insights will help you understand how you can contribute to constructive conflict engagement in your workplace.

Your Style in Conflict

How we behave in conflict is primarily determined by our DiSC® priorities. These are behaviors that we naturally lean towards during conflict. Using the graph listed above as an example, you can see that this particular person has four priorities. Everyone will have at least three conflict priorities.

This person will tend to be assertive, maintaining control, expressing their opinions, and also providing reassurance. Our Everything DiSC® priorities give a deeper level of personalization to our DiSC style. They help distinguish the differences between two individuals who have the same DiSC Styles, but one has an extra priority. 

When we are in conflict, our priorities help explain the actions and behaviors we exhibit naturally. It's essential to understand our behaviors in conflict so we can recognize the impact we may have on others and the influence others have on us. Additionally, our priorities will indicate which behaviors we may need to strive towards. A Person with the D-Style might have a harder time stretching towards the priority of Stability, but the situation might call for it if the conflict is becoming unproductive.

Understanding Automatic Thoughts

The final section of the Everything DiSC® Productive Conflict profile addresses the areas of Destructive Responses and Automatic Thoughts. Let's start by exploring automatic thoughts.

Neuroscience and behavioral economics have taught us that our brains have two different wiring systems:

System One is the system that works at lightning speed – it allows us to both drive on the highway going 75 miles an hour while also having a conversation with someone sitting next to us. This system is capable of gathering a vast amount of information and making assumptions about what is happening.
System Two is the part of our brain that can make deep rationalizations or use logic. When you are trying to work on your taxes or do any type of math, you are using System Two.

Every day, we automatically make assumptions about what is going on (System One). These assumptions are a significant part of why humanity was able to survive bears, snakes, lions, and many other larger and fiercer animals in the wild. We were able to process information quickly and act without thinking.

Fortunately, we don't have the same perils that our ancestors had 10,000 years ago. However, we have the same mental processing power. Today, our System One is processing information and prompting us to act just as quickly as when we need to fight or flee from a bear, but our world has slowed down. Our most significant problems today are social and emotional, which demand that we slow down how we approach these problems (System Two).

Everything DiSC® helps provide a key to understanding why we might automatically produce a negative thought in response to someone else's behavior. The goal is that, over time, this tool will enable us to identify these thoughts more easily and quickly; however, it will be challenging initially.

Choosing Productive Responses

We all have engaged in destructive responses. Without understanding our automatic thoughts, we cannot choose productive reactions when engaging in conflict. Our destructive responses have a wide range.

Here are a few of them:

Arguing
Belittling
Caving In
Defensiveness
Dismissing Opinions
Drama
Exaggerating
Exclusion
Finger-Pointing
Gossiping

Everything DiSC® Productive Conflict can't tell you what your destructive responses are, but it will help you identify which automatic thoughts might lead you there. For example, a person with the D-Style might become overly defensive, argue, or dismiss others' opinions if they feel like they are losing control.

The last part of this program is the most important: the learner must understand which destructive responses they engage in the most and what thoughts lead to those behaviors. Learners will have the opportunity to identify the destructive response they have experienced, and then take a moment to try to reframe their thinking. This process is formally called Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). This process is a very simplified version of what therapists use.