Discus has always been the most powerful and versatile personal profiling tool available, and now we've made it even better. Version 4 of Discus is absolutely free - you pay only for the profiles you use it to create. Discus isn't just fantastically cost-effective, it also offers an unparalleled range of features and real business solutions. Why not take a few moments to explore the Discus advantage?

A Solution You Can Trust

Depth and Detail

More Than Just Profiling

Gold Standard Support

A Truly Cost Effective Solution

How can we offer so much for so little? Because we're confident that once you start using Discus, you'll find its insights indispensible. That's why we're able to offer all these features free of charge: you pay only for the individual profile reports you create.

A standard report costs just £19 (that equates to about $37 or 24€). For that you receive a detailed graphical assessment, and an informative and detailed textual report running to ten business-oriented sections. We also offer an 'Enhanced' report version for a further £19, which includes even more relevant and targeted material that's directly useful in a commercial setting.

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A Solution You Can Trust

Axiom has been providing cutting-edge profiling solutions since 1994.

We have been developing the most advanced automated DISC profilers in the industry for no less than 14 years. That means that we have a wealth of experience from providing profiling around the world. We've always worked to respond to customer feedback in our profiling solutions, and that means that Discus 4 is probably the most usable and directly relevant profiling solutions available today.

Discus is based on the established DISC system used across all sectors of industry.

DISC was developed in the 1920's, and first used as a major recruitment tool by the US Army during the 1930's. Since then, it has been enhanced and developed to meet the changing needs of industry, to become one of the most widespread profiling tools in business today.

Discus is the subject its own independent validation and reliability study.

Discus has been the subject of rigorous independent testing to investigate its effectiveness. The Roodt Report is an investigate of its reliability (how stable its results remain over time) and its validity (how well it measures what it claims to measure). Discus passed both levels of assessment, and you can discover the details if you follow the link below.

Depth and Detail

Discus uses the most powerful profile reporting system available.

To explain and interpret a DISC profile in a useful way, Discus deploys a powerful expert system that's capable of converting an individual's results and creating a sophisticated but readable discussion of all the key features of a person and their approach. The report also incorporates an interactive Glossary, an explanation of the key concepts describes in ways that are directly relevant to the person in question.

Some DISC vendors tend to fill out their reports with 'padding' of various sorts: descriptive information that's repeated word-for-word in every report that's produced. You'll find no padding in a Discus report: just direct and relevant information. You can see the results of this reporting system by taking a look at this selection of sample Discus reports:

Each report description is uniquely tailored to a specific individual.

Many DISC systems work by using a person's results to place in one of a few basic categories, and then showing a standard report for that category. Discus is far more sophisticated than that: its reporting engine is capable of producing literally millions of different passages of text, each taking account of the significant variations in a person's particular behavioural style.

Report contents are relevant and specific, focusing on real business issues.

You'll find that a Discus report focuses on real business issues, and draws out the most crucial features of a person's style. After a broad introduction to their style, the Discus report looks at such aspects as decision making, motivation, communication and management. The Enhanced version of the report goes further, with detailed guidelines covering roles such as management and sales. You'll also find a suite of individually selected questions suitable for behavioural interviewing.

Reports are available in a range of different languages.

Discus can provide reports in a range of different languages, including UK and US English, Chinese (both Traditional and Simplified), Portuguese, German, Norwegian, Swedish and so on. Using our Discus Online service, you can even translate reports from one language to other at the flick of a switch.

Use the Discus Report Editor to create your own custom reports.

One of the most flexible features of Discus is its Report Editor, which allows you to create customised content and make your DISC reports even more directly relevant. Using the Report Editor, you can rearrange the sections of a report, include or exclude material to suit your needs, and even write your own report elements to create a textual report that's truly specific to your needs.

More Than Just Profiling

Discus offers an array of extra features to take profiling to the next level.

Discus is one of the most effective tools you'll find to create and describe DISC profiles, but it can do much more besides. Built in to Discus 4 are extra features to help you define and match against roles, investigate relationships, profile teams, and much more besides. These aren't optional extras: they're all provided as part of the standard Discus package.

All the options listed here are free-to-use as part of the standard Discus package.

There are no hidden extra charges in the Discus system. Once you've create a DISC profile, you're free to use all its additional assessment techniques at no extra charge. The only charges Discus will ever make are for individual DISC profiles and reports. If you want to match a person against a job, for instance, or see how they will work within a team, you can do that without any restrictions, at no extra cost.

Match candidates against ideal jobs that you define yourself or choose from a library.

Discus can take a person's style and compare it against the ideal for any role, providing a detailed breakdown of their particular strengths for that role, and the areas where they're likely to need training. Discus comes complete with a library of these 'Job Profiles', and also a built in 'Job Profiler' suite to help you define specific roles of your own.

Investigate the dynamics of relationships in the workplace.

As soon as you create your second Discus profile, you have access to an entirely new area of the profiler: the Relationship Assessment. This will take two sets of DISC results, and combine them to create a report covering the detailed dynamics of their working relationship with one another. Relationship Assessments are available for any pair of DISC results.

Profile entire teams, or use the built-in Team Profiler to find optimum working groups.

Discus can go even further than describing working relationships: it includes a complete and interactive team building facility. You can use this to model any existing team, or even search for ideal combinations of members to meet a particular need. Discus also provides a breakdown of an individual's team role and attitudes as part of its extensive team reports.

Internet connectivity means that you can create profiles across the Web.

Axiom has been involved with online profiling since its earliest days, launching the first version of our online service Discus Online in 1999. The Discus 4 software is directly compatible with the online service, and gives you access to complete Internet connectivity. For example, you can use this feature to create a profile remotely: an individual can complete a DISC questionnaire anywhere in the world, and you'll have immediate access to their results.

Gold Standard Support

An international network provides immediate support wherever you are.

Because of the way we provide Discus - as an ongoing service rather than a one-off purchase - we remain committed to providing you with the best possible levels of support that we can. Our customers regularly testify to the excellence of our ongoing service, and with our established track record, you can rely on us to get you what you need, when you need it.

What's more, with our network of Discus providers around the world, you can be sure that a local contact is always available for you to connect with.

Discus provides its own extensive interactive training material.

Discus is designed to be as easy to use and informative as we can make it, and that means you don't need to be a DISC expert to get useful results out of the system. If you're interested in delving deeper, though, we provide extensive interactive reference material ranging from an introductory guide to detailed reference sources. To get a taste for what's available, you can find some of the same material on this site:

A One-day Discus Training Course is available as an optional extra.

Training is not required to use Discus, but if you want to fully familiarise yourself with the DISC system and the way Discus uses it, then you'll find our one-day training course invaluable. Follow the link below for details of the UK training programme (training facilities are available around the world - contact your local Axiom representative for more information).

Putting Discus to Work

The hidden costs of hiring the wrong person can be spectacular, and so a recruiter needs every advantage they can find to help ensure that they put the right person in the right job.

For that reason, DISC is most commonly seen in a recruitment setting, and Discus can certainly be used as a powerfully effective aid to recruitment. With all its additional features and options, though, it's capable of far more besides. Once you have Discus in place, it will come into its own throughout your business. Consider some of the possibilities:

The Next Step

Remember that getting started with Discus involves almost no initial investment: you'' just need to purchase any profiles you want to create. So, why not take a look at Discus in action for yourself? Contact us right now for your copy.