Yes, DISC Profiling has been used for decades in business and Athlete Assessments was the first (and currently only) company providing DISC Profiles which are specifically for sport. Our AthleteDISC, CoachDISC, and Sports ManagerDISC Profiles are based on the same foundation as DISC Profiling that is used in business and other industries, and have been developed to specifically meet the needs of people who are involved in sport. You might find it useful to read more about DISC Profiling in sport.

We usually recommend that individuals are over the age of 16 years old. This is primarily driven by their understanding of the English language and ensuring that they understand the questions in the assessment. The assessment is comprehensive, yet simple but it does require a fair understanding of English. Younger athletes may be able to use the assessment but they will need an understanding of the English language the same as the average 16 year old. Please feel free to Contact Us to assist you further. You might find it valuable to read the individual webpages about the AthleteDISC Profile for athletes, the CoachDISC Profile for coaches and the Sports ManagerDISC Profile for team managers, administrators and other sports professionals.

Athlete Assessments provides three different DISC Profiles – the AthleteDISC Profile for athletes, the CoachDISC Profile for coaches and the Sports ManagerDISC Profile for team managers, administrators and other sports professionals. All three are based on the foundation of DISC Profile but are different as they are tailored for the different roles.

Most ‘regular’ DISC Profiles are designed for a business context and many of our clients who have previously used these have found that they need to do their own interpretation of the results to be able to relate it to how they work and coaching within the sporting environment. The CoachDISC profile is designed purely for the sports coach. It is unique, only available from Athlete Assessments, and gives a coach all of the benefits of DISC in a sporting language every coach can relate to. To find out more information specifically for coaches, please go to our Coaches page. Or you might also like to read more about our Methodology and the Importance of Profiling.

A paper version gives a person a basic understanding of what their profile may be. It is not an accurate measure nor does it produce a full report with descriptive and prescriptive strategies on how to improve your results by adapting your behavior when required. Athlete Assessments’ online versions of DISC have a more detailed survey and algorithms are applied to your answers and both your adapted profiles and natural profile behaviors are generated.

With the detailed and personalized content of the reports, it gives the user an unsurpassed view of their behaviors within their chosen sporting environment, and how they are likely to revert to instinctive patterns under stress and pressure. Only online versions create this level of detailed feedback. Athlete Assessments also has three different types of DISC Profiles: the AthleteDISC for athletes and players, the CoachDISC for sports coaches, and the Sports ManagerDISC for team managers, sports administrators and other sports professionals.

We currently have the assessments survey and reports available in in English and Hungarian. We also do have the CoachDISC Profile in Japanese in both survey and report.

We also offer the option to complete the survey in different languages but the reports are generated in English. The languages currently available to complete the survey in are: English, Japanese, Hungarian, Spanish (Mexico), French (France), German (Germany) and Russian. (i.e. the survey questions are completed in German but the report is generated in English). Within our English survey, we do have the function that if you don’t understand a word that if you hover your mouse of it, you’re provided with a few other words that mean the same.

If you have any further questions regarding the languages of our assessments, please feel welcome to Contact Us.

Great question. Technically a DISC Profile is a behavioral assessment, rather than a ‘personality’ assessment but many people refer to the two in the same way. DISC Profiling focuses on behavior which is how someone prefers to act and what they do, rather than personality traits. It is important to note that behavior is flexible, yet generally personality is not. As an example, we never ask an athlete to change their personality, but coaches constantly ask athletes to adjust their technique or what they do. Or you might also like to read more about our Methodology and the Importance of Profiling.

Emotional Intelligence (“EI”) is a competency based model describing how we interact with others, build relationships, motive ourselves and the degree to which we understand the impact of our emotions on our performances day to day and in competition. EI is a great tool for increasing your self-awareness and you can read more about it in our article, Emotional Intelligence in Sport. As it relates to DISC, it is different as DISC is describing how you behave from an external perspective. EI looks deeper into your emotional states and the impact this has on your behaviors. We believe EI to be a wonderful tool used in conjunction with DISC to help you understand when to adapt your behavior to create better outcomes given the situations and people you have to interact with. Emotionally Intelligent people are the most adaptable, they can however, be any type of DISC Profile style.

Myers Briggs represents a profiling tool based on the theory of Personality – those inherent traits shaped by our values, beliefs and underlying motivations. DISC is developed from Behavior Theory suggesting that our behavior is a function of personality and the environment we find ourselves operating in. Therefore, our behavior can change depending on the environment. Either way, DISC measures the actual observable behavioral patterns which one prefers to do in a given environment. DISC also measures how we adapt ourselves in different environments compared to our natural behavioral preferences. Personality does not change, but behavior can if one chooses to do something different and learn new skills or ways to act. Particularly in sport, we believe it is much more important and effective to focus on behavior which is adaptable, compared to personality which is fixed. To read more about this, go to our Methodology page or read more about the Importance of Profiling.

Many of our Sports Manager360 clients have previously or simultaneously completed their Sports ManagerDISC Profile and you may be wondering how these relate to each other.

Fundamentally, they are both useful tools for further developing self-awareness and supporting the individual’s professional development. Both start with the individual completing a survey as to how they see themselves in their professional role and both have the ability to include others – we call them ‘observers’.

The Sports Manager360 focuses on eight manager effectiveness abilities and does encourage those working with and around them to be actively involved by providing feedback about their performance. The Sports ManagerDISC Profile is a behavioral assessment, which identifies the individual’s preferred work behaviors, their personal preferences and style. Using the information within the Sports ManagerDISC Profile report, you can be more effective with your communication, build stronger relationships with staff, senior management, peers, coaches, athletes and others, and have a deeper understanding of your motivation, strengths and areas for development. With the Sports ManagerDISC, ‘observers’ are an optional inclusion whereas with the Sports Manager360 they are a critical part of the process.