Core 2.0 · The flagship profile
DISC and Emotional Intelligence in one assessment. Because insight on its own changes nothing.
Core 2.0 measures behavioral style and Emotional Intelligence in a single untimed questionnaire, delivered as one 36-page report with coaching guidance written for that profile. It says not only how someone behaves, but how well they adapt it, and what to do differently.
Section one
Behavioral style
Section two
Emotional Intelligence
Section three · The same style, two conversations
A colleague disagrees with your decision.
You notice them go quiet. You stop and ask what they would do instead.
The conversation opens up.
You take the silence as agreement. You move on.
They stop raising things.
Same behavioral style, both times. The Emotional Intelligence is the difference — and it develops.
The style is fixed. The Emotional Intelligence is not.
Why most tools fall short
Awareness is the start. Not the destination.
Understanding your own behavior is rarely the problem. Most people have some level of self-awareness. The challenge is what happens next — under pressure, in conflict, in the conversations that count.
Where it shows
Three places it costs you
Behavior shifts under pressure
Good intentions collapse in difficult moments. The version of someone that exists in a workshop is not always the version that shows up when it counts, and most tools don't bridge that gap.
Communication breaks at the wrong time
Insight without application is just information. When a difficult conversation arrives, or a decision has to be made quickly, people revert — because there is no support at the point of need.
Good intentions are not enough
Consistency is where behavioral development usually fails. The goal is not one good interaction. It is a pattern that holds across time, relationships and conditions.
The model
What is the difference between DISC and Emotional Intelligence?
Emotional Intelligence isn't a separate product you add on. It is measured at the same time and written into the same document. With DISC and Emotional Intelligence read together, the report says what to adapt, not what you are.
Behavioral style
Where someone sits across Dominance, Influence, Steadiness and Compliance — how they communicate, how they decide, how they respond to challenge and conflict. The pattern they default to, especially under pressure. How someone behaves.
Emotional Intelligence
How well someone notices emotion in themselves and others, and how deliberately they use that awareness to shape a response. This is what separates two people with the same profile: one reads the effect they're having and adjusts, the other realizes afterwards. How well they adapt.
What is measured: DISC
Your DISC style. One of eight.
Most people lead with one DISC style and lean toward a second. So rather than four boxes, Core 2.0 places you among eight: the four styles and the four blends between them. Your report then reads your own style out in full.
Dominance
Direct, decisive
Driven by results. Moves fast, takes charge and challenges the status quo.
Dominance & Influence
Driving, persuasive
Sets the pace and brings people along. Pushes for the result and sells the idea behind it.
Influence
Expressive, sociable
Energized by people and ideas. Builds relationships quickly and brings optimism to the work.
Influence & Steadiness
Warm, encouraging
Builds connection and keeps it. Encourages others and makes a group feel like a team.
Steadiness
Patient, consistent
Values stability and genuine connection. Works methodically and supports others reliably.
Steadiness & Compliance
Methodical, dependable
Careful and consistent. Gets the detail right and can be relied on to finish what was started.
Compliance
Analytical, precise
Motivated by accuracy and quality. Analyzes carefully and raises the standard through attention to detail.
Compliance & Dominance
Exacting, determined
Sets a high bar and holds to it. Pairs careful analysis with the drive to see a decision through.
No style is better than another. Each has its strengths, and each has a pattern it falls back on under pressure. Whether you notice that pattern, and adjust, is what Emotional Intelligence measures.
What is measured: Emotional Intelligence
Two domains, eight dimensions
Eight separate scores rather than one, so you can see exactly where you read people well and where things pass you by. Each dimension is scored on a five-point scale and gets its own page in the report. Hover any dimension to see where it sits.
Self-Awareness
How accurately you read yourself.
4 dimensions
Self-reflection
Whether you examine your own reactions afterward, and how honestly.
Self-belief
How steady your confidence stays when things are not going well.
Emotional clarity
Whether you can name what you are feeling with any precision, in the moment.
Seeking feedback
Whether you go looking for the unflattering view, or wait for it to arrive.
Awareness of Others
How accurately you read everyone else.
4 dimensions
Social intuition
Whether you pick up what was not said.
Valuing differences
Whether difference registers as useful, or as an obstacle.
Emotional insight
Whether you can tell why someone is reacting the way they are.
Empathy
Whether noticing turns into action, or stops at feeling.
Why eight rather than one. A single Emotional Intelligence figure hides the thing worth knowing. Someone can read other people with real accuracy and have almost no language for their own state, and the average of those two would describe neither. Every dimension in the report carries a question to explore, one small shift to experiment with, and something to pay attention to.
What's in the report
What is in a Core 2.0 report? Three sections, thirty-six pages
Written to be read by the person, not interpreted by a specialist. Each section builds on the one before it, and the third is where the two halves meet.
Your DISC style
How you naturally communicate, decide and respond under pressure, and how other people are likely to experience it. Your style is placed among eight, then read out in full: what drives you, where you are strong, what gets in your way, and what you bring to a team.
Emotional Intelligence
How accurately you read yourself and the people around you, across eight dimensions, each scored and given its own page. Every one ends with something you can use: a question to explore, one small shift to try, and something to pay attention to.
DISC and Emotional Intelligence combined
Where the two meet, applied to eight situations that matter at work: adapting your style, staying steady under pressure, getting heard, handling conflict, bringing others along, taking feedback and setting goals that last. Each ends with questions to reflect on, and the report closes with five practical shifts and your own plan for what to keep, stop and start doing.
Included at no extra cost
Insight is only valuable when it changes something
Every Core 2.0 report comes with FlowConnect: coaching guidance written for that person's behavioral profile, reached through the platform whenever it's needed. No waiting for a follow-up workshop, and nothing relying on what someone remembers from one.
Take one situation. A colleague pushes back on your idea in front of the group, and the conversation shifts in tone as you feel the tension rising. The default behavior is to defend, match their energy, pull back or defer — most people revert to their natural style, which may escalate the situation, shut the conversation down, or quietly store the resentment for later. One shift to try: pause, acknowledge, invite. Acknowledge the concern directly, then invite a conversation about the idea rather than defending it. One move, and a completely different outcome.
The same guidance covers giving feedback, receiving feedback, handling disagreement, decisions under pressure, competing priorities and difficult conversations.
What changes
When insight is applied consistently
The shifts people notice in themselves, in their relationships, and in the way the work feels.
- More deliberate in tone, intent and delivery. People understand each other more quickly and with less friction.
- When people understand their own patterns and other people's, relationships deepen — including between people who previously found each other difficult.
- Decisions improve when the behavioral and emotional factors shaping them are visible, and there is awareness to adjust before committing.
- Behavior that holds across situations rather than only when conditions are easy.
Who it's for
Anyone who wants behavior to change
Leaders and people managers
Who want to understand the effect their natural style has on those around them, and adapt it deliberately in the moments that shape culture and performance.
Team members and individual contributors
Who want to communicate with greater ease, reduce friction, and build working relationships that make the work easier.
Organizations investing in development
Who want development to stick past the workshop — where insight becomes habit rather than something forgotten by the following week.
Core 2.0 is the default, and usually the right call. It works for a single debrief, a leadership team, or a rollout across a whole business, because what it produces — a shared way of describing how people work — is useful at every scale. Choose something else when the situation is narrower: a large group who only need the common language will do fine on Portrait 2.0, and a team whose problem is how they work together wants Group 2.0 alongside it. Core is the one to pick when you don't yet know which of those you have.
Practical detail
How it actually runs
| Time to complete | Untimed; most people take 10 to 15 minutes, in a single sitting |
|---|---|
| Format | One online questionnaire. The same assessment used for Portrait 2.0, Leader 2.0, Sales 2.0 and Fit 2.0 |
| Output | A 36-page PDF report |
| Languages | English as standard. Ask us about other languages for the report you need. |
| Cost | 10 tokens per report. The rate improves with volume |
| Support | Debrief structures, facilitation guides and workshop materials, whether we deliver with you or you deliver yourself |
| Includes FlowConnect | Yes, at no extra cost |
If Core 2.0 isn't the fit
Three you might want instead
Portrait 2.0
DISC only, without the Emotional Intelligence layer. For a large group who need the shared language before anything else.
Leader 2.0
Built around leadership and the move into management. For the strong performer who's just been made a manager.
Group 2.0
Whole-team behavioral composition. For a team that works one-to-one and struggles together.
5 questions
Core 2.0 questions
What is the difference between DISC and Emotional Intelligence?
DISC describes how someone behaves — their pace, directness and approach to decisions. Emotional Intelligence describes how well they notice that pattern and adapt it. Core 2.0 measures both in one sitting and writes them into one report.
How long does the Core 2.0 assessment take?
It is untimed. Most people finish in 10 to 15 minutes. The behavioral section uses adaptive administration, so a typical completion is around 114 of the 138 items.
How many pages is the Core 2.0 report?
Thirty-six pages, in three sections: the DISC style in full, eight Emotional Intelligence dimensions each scored and explained, then eight topics that read the two together.
Does Core 2.0 include FlowConnect?
Yes, at no extra cost. FlowConnect is coaching guidance written for that person's behavioral profile, reached through the platform whenever it is needed.
Can Core 2.0 be used for hiring, selection or promotion decisions?
No. Core 2.0 is a development tool. It is not designed or supported for selection, hiring or promotion decisions, and nothing in the report should be used to make one.
Next
See. Understand. Apply.
The report shows you your DISC style. Emotional Intelligence explains how well you adapt it. FlowConnect helps you use both the next time it counts.