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Competitive Advantage

What Makes Integris Performance Advisors Different?

Thought Leadership

Our principals, Brett M. Cooper and Evans Kerrigan, are authors of the #1 best-selling book, Solving the People Problem: Essential Skills You Need to Lead and Succeed in Today’s Workplace (named the #1 must-read book of 2021 by Entrepreneur Magazine). In this book, Brett and Evans share many of the most impactful lessons they’ve learned over the last 20 years about how to apply the language of DISC to expand an organization's collective levels of emotional intelligence and employee engagement. Brett and Evans launched Integris in 2011 with the mission of expanding the existence of healthy organizations and great places to work, and that mission continues to drive everything we do.

Relational vs. Transactional

We hear from our clients, many of whom have switched to Integris from other providers and stayed with us for years, that many resellers of Everything DiSC products have a transactional business model. They will sell you what you request, but do little to truly understand your situation and goals and serve as a trusted advisor. At Integris, we don’t just want to “sell you products.” We want to use our decades of leadership, team and organizational development experience to help you plan your strategy and determine exactly which products are best suited to enable you to reach your objectives.

We are humbled by the testimonials we’ve received from clients, many of which you can find on our website. Time and time again, these testimonials highlight the reasons for our clients’ satisfaction with Integris; reasons that are outlined below.

Innovation and Implementation

Integris works closely with Wiley, publishers of the Everything DiSC brand, on product development efforts. We are part of their beta testing team, which gives us (and our clients) early access to the new product developments that are coming. And once a new product actually comes to market, we do all we can to make sure every client we serve (large or small) knows about it. We chose Everything DiSC as our psychometric tool of choice in large part because of the excellent product development team at Wiley, and we know that these new developments can have a big impact on our clients success.

The core DiSC product line, provided by Wiley Publishing, is undeniably very powerful. But after supporting organizational change efforts for over 20 years, we recognize that the Everything DiSC product line can be best leveraged when augmented by other tools and models. When we see a gap in the product line, we take steps to create proprietary solutions to fill the need. Further, we have built expertise in related frameworks, like The Leadership Challenge, The Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team, and Lean Six Sigma. We use this expertise to be sure your people development efforts are robust and well-rounded.

Do your program administrators or assessment takers have a question or need some help? Getting fast and complete answers can be difficult from DiSC resellers who don’t have anyone dedicated to customer support. Not so with Integris. We have team members standing by to help, usually at a moment’s notice. And our customer service team is deeply knowledgeable about all things DiSC, so there aren’t many situations that we can’t find a solution for.

Price Competitive

As one of the top Everything DiSC providers (by volume, we are in the top 1% of all global suppliers), we are able to pass our economies of scale on to our clients. We consider your overall, long-term use of DISC assessments, and apply the most aggressive discounts we can. So although we first and foremost strive to be high-touch and customer focused, our business model allows us to also be very cost-effective.

What Makes Wiley Different from Other DISC Providers?

Why we chose to work with Wiley

Our livelihood relies on our ability to give leaders, teams and organizations the absolute best guidance and advice. To do that, we need a DISC assessment that is proven, valid and reliable. After conducting extensive research into the available options, we’ve selected Everything DiSC® as our tool of choice.

Here are some of the reasons why we decided Everything DiSC was right for us and our clients:

  • Because it uses Computerized Adaptive Testing, the results are very accurate and detailed.
  • The personalized reports all include powerful insights about the respondent's style, other people’s styles and how different styles interact with each other.
  • All assessments include free access to an online portal with a number of useful, interactive tools like Comparison Reports, videos and podcast recordings.
  • The Everything DiSC suite includes assessments for a range of applications, including Emotional Intelligence, Management, Productive Conflict, Teamwork, Sales, and general Workplace success.
  • The brand has a 97% satisfaction rate across over 130,000 organizations and 8 million individuals.

What Makes Everything DiSC Different from Other Psychometric Tools?

Why we chose to use Everything DiSC

We are fortunate to live in a time when top employers everywhere recognize the importance and value of investing in their people. Using tools that help people better understand themselves and others can have enormous benefit, and the marketplace has exploded with psychometric assessment options.

When selecting an assessment for your workforce, it’s critical to know what you are looking to achieve and to then select an assessment that is proven to achieve it. DISC, and Everything DiSC in particular, is the #1 choice for helping people improve relationships at work. The information and insights revealed by an Everything DISC assessment help people better understand their own communication tendencies AND understand the communication preferences of others. Ultimately, when an organization uses DiSC across the workforce, it establishes a common language that employees at every level can use to honor the differences of the people around them. These leads to outcomes like improved collaboration, reduced tension and frustration, increased productivity, and higher levels of employee engagement and leadership effectiveness.

What we look for in tools

There are a number of tools on the market designed to give you an accurate reading of your DISC style. All these products are certainly not created equal, which makes sense given that they can range from free to costing several hundreds of dollars per assessment.

Here are some things to look for when selecting which DISC assessment to use:

  • Computerized Adaptive Testing: The most reliable instruments use intelligent surveys that adjust the questions based on previous responses, rather than having every respondent answer the same fixed-list of questions.
  • Personalized Reports: Be sure your assessment provides a custom report that offers personalized insights about your own DISC style and how you interact and respond to people with other DISC styles.
  • Interactive Tools: Top-of-the-line DISC assessments include access to online portals where you can do things like compare your style with your colleagues, create visual maps of all the DISC styles on your team, and dig deeper into DISC theory and research.
  • Range of Applications: Because DISC concepts can be applied to a host of situations and job functions - like managing and leading, selling, working on a team, and dealing with conflict -  look for a tool that offers separate reports for a range of applications.
  • Validated and Market-Tested: You’ll want to be sure your assessment offers results that are proven to be valid, reliable and repeatable. The highest quality options are designed using detailed psychometric research and undergo extensive market testing before ever being offered as a product for sale.

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