Features

DISC Profiling

If you're familiar with earlier versions of Discus, you'll find all your favourite features in place, but Discus 4 takes DISC profiling on to a new level.

Quick and easy questionnaires
Create a profile through an on-screen questionnnaire, or use a printed question set (available for free). Discus 4 also integrates with Discus Online, so you can create DISC profiles across the Web.
Instant report production
Discus will automatically calculate results and analyse profile results as soon as a questionnaire has been completed.
Direct and relevant reporting
Discus' reports include a complete array of graphical displays and assessments, as well as a natural language description of up to twenty-one different aspects of a person's behaviour.
Relationship reporting
New in Discus 4 is relationship assessment, a feature that will examine two separate DISC profiles and report on the important features of their likely working relationship.
Printing and e-mailing
Every report in Discus 4 can be output under your complete control. Choose which sections are included in a report, and then print or e-mail directly from your desktop.

Job Matching and Profiling

Job Profiling is the process of defining a job or role in DISC terms, so that it can be matched against ordinary DISC profiles to establish a behavioural match between the two. Discus has always been at the forefront of Job Profiling technology, but with Discus 4 we've added even more new features.

Job Matching
Discus 4 can analyse the suitability of DISC profiles for any role. Use its Matching features to find ideal candidates for a role, and ideal roles to match an individual style. The Match analysis can even suggestion particular strengths, and likely training requirements, for any role.
Job Profile designer
Discus 4 has Job Profile design facilities for newcomers and experts alike. You can define your job's needs through a simple questionnaire, or base it on an existing profile. For experienced users, you can even define the Job Profile purely by hand.
Job Profile Library
To get you started with Job Profiling, Discus comes complete with a built-in library of over fifty standard Job Profiles, that you can use as a basis for creating your own.
Merging Job Profiles
A great new tool helps you build Job Profiles as a group exercise. If you collect views of a role from many different perspectives, Discus 4 can merge all those perspectives together to provide an optimum new Job Profile.
New Job Profile reporting
Each Job Profile, including those you create yourself, has its own report in natural language. In Discus 4, this report has been specially redeveloped and extended to make it even more useful than ever.

Negotation Management

Completely new in Discus 4 is an entire section dedicated to helping optimise negotiation. Contact Profiles build a model of a person's behaviour indirectly, without the need for a DISC questionnaire, and can make recommendations for productive business interaction with that individual.

Contact profiling couldn't be simpler
Just answer twelve simple questions, and Discus 4 can generate a behavioural model of the person you describe.
Quick Call Questionnaires
These special questionnaires are ideal for modelling a person's style interactively. Adjust the model on-screen during a call, and the Contact Profile will adapt immediately to your changes.
In-depth reporting
A standard Contact Profile report consists of seven seperate sections, along with a useful checklist covering basic 'Dos' and 'Don'ts' when negotiating with an individual.
DISC compatibility
Contact Profiles work using the same basic principles as DISC, so they can also be described and analysed in DISC terms. Discus 4 can even provide a full DISC report for a candidate profiled this way.

Team Building

Behavioural team building, management and reporting is included in Discus 4 as a completely free service. So long as you have a DISC profile for each member, you can model and assess the dynamics and working patterns of any teams you wish.

Drag-and-drop team building
You can import any individual's DISC profile into your team, and freely assign and reassign that individual within the team to explore the potential effects.
Understanding the team
Discus 4 will provide a comprehensive team report in natural language, covering not only the general structure of the team, but also its key relationship issues, dynamics, roles and leadership questions.
Team Attitudes at a glance
The completely new 'PPF' (Pace-Perspective-Focus) team attitudes assessment extends DISC to provide a model of any member's attitudes towards a team, and the type of role they will typically fulfil.
Team Profiling
Using the Team Profiler tool, Discus 4 can even recommend ideal behavioural combinations for you. Based on a team definition you provide, the Team Profiler will search for team combinations that match your ideal.

Features and Services

Discus 4 comes complete with a whole range of additional features and services, including a comprehensive selection of online tools, as well as editors and controls to help you get the most of the the Discus 4 system.

Integration with Discus Online
Discus 4 will connect directly to a Discus Online account, to provide online DISC profiling, and more features besides, such a profile publication. DISC profiles can be freely transferred between Discus 4 and Discus Online.
Online resources
Discus has its own built-in Web browser to take you directly to resources you need. That includes not only extensive reference material, but also a range of interactive Web services.
Staying up to date
The Discus Update utility will automatically scan for any new files or content, and download and install them as needed. That ensures that your Discus 4 installation is always completely up to date.
Designing reports
With the Report Editor, you can develop your own specialised content by combining DISC interpretations in to create reports specific to your own particular needs.
Questionnaires on tap
Discus 4 holds printable versions of all the questionnaires it uses. With the click of a button, you can create as many copies as you need of a questionnaire for candidates to complete, and then enter their answers into Discus 4 at your convenience.
Data security
Discus 4's provides security and passwording features to control access to sensitive DISC data.

As you can see, Discus 4 is the most comprehensive, powerful and cost-effective DISC profiling solution available today. Why not explore further - take a look at the samples and screenshots we've provided here, or contact us to find out more about Discus 4 for yourself.