Karen Geiger & Associates, Inc.

08/23/2026

Performance review season is coming, and most teams aren't ready to have tough conversations.

Worksmart gives your people a framework to practice giving effective feedback, encouraging their direct reports, and motivating their teams. It gives them specific guidance tailored to their style and the recipient's style.

And Everything DiSC Worksmart on Catalyst is available to them 24/7 on any device and now it’s 50% off!

Contact me to learn more!

08/20/2026

If you are a women over 50 who would benefit from coming to a beautiful and comfortable space to step away from the noise of everyday life to explore a simple but powerful question: What’s next for me now?, consider signing up for this year's Next Chapter Retreat October 1-4, 2026.

This intimate, thoughtfully curated experience offers time to pause, reflect, and reconnect with your own thoughts, dreams and realities. Through guided reflection and meaningful conversation in an intimate setting, you’ll explore what alignment looks like in this season of life. Some women leave with a tangible next step. Others leave with deeper clarity and the insight that unlocks their next move. What everyone leaves with is something increasingly rare: the space to listen to themselves again.

This year it will be led by Terri Moore and Elizabeth McKee who are brilliant at helping you do this. Go to https://nextchapterretreat.org/ for more info or to register. They're almost full and only accept 10 women.

08/16/2026

If you had an assessment that could help you find the candidates with the best fit to your organization as well as help you with coaching them and planning their career, would you spend $300 to use it and generate up to 12 useful reports over the lifecycle of an employee?

PXT Select™ is a powerful selection assessment that measures a candidate’s cognitive abilities, behaviors, and interests. Assessment results equip organizations and hiring managers with easy-to-understand information about the candidate and provides intuitive questions to strengthen the interview process.

One Powerful Assessment – A Suite of Reports. PXT Select’s suite of reports helps you select, onboard, coach, and develop employees and includes three sales-focused reports. Here the reports you get from just one assessment:



o Comprehensive Selection Report. Is the candidate a good fit? This powerful report helps you make smarter hiring decisions with confidence. Featuring dynamic interview questions and tips on “what to listen for” with each candidate, this report gives you a meaningful edge in your hiring process.

o Comprehensive Selection Report: Sales*. This powerful report helps identify a candidates fit to a role. It features dynamic interview questions to help strengthen the overall hiring process. With a focus on sales, this report highlights critical sales practices and describes how a candidate might demonstrate them, helping you select the right salespeople for your organization.

o Multiple Positions Report. Which jobs represent the best fit for a particular individual? Compare a candidate or employee to multiple jobs in your organization.

o Multiple Candidates Report.. Compare multiple candidates for a single position.

o Team Report. See how a potential candidate fits an existing team or address your current team’s dynamic and strengths.

o Manager-Employee Report. Discover how a manager and employee can work more effectively together.

o Individual’s Feedback Report. Candidates can learn from PXT Select, too! This narrative report doesn’t reveal scores and is perfectly safe to share with applicants.

o Individual’s Feedback Report: Sales*. Candidates can learn from PXT Select, too! This participant report offers personalized feedback to the candidate or employee using common sales language.

o Individual’s Graph. The graph illustrates a candidate’s results that you can view at a glance.

o Coaching Report. Do you wish you had coaching advice tailored to each employee? This report gives you exactly that and more!

o Coaching Report: Sales*. This report provides tailored coaching guidance giving managers personalized tips and strategies to develop their sales team members.

o Performance Model Report. Understand the range of scores and behaviors for the position you’re trying to fill. Learn about the ideal candidate for that role.

DM me for a free demo!

08/09/2026

Help your managers skill up easily and efficiently on the job! Worksmart is an online tool available for only $120 that gives your key managers access to 5 modules with relevant content and personal application.

In our upcoming showcase on August 11, 11-noon EST, Worksmart in Action: Your Toolkit for Stronger Collaboration, you will experience how Worksmart’s five modules—either self-paced or facilitator-led—build essential collaboration skills right in the flow of work!

In this one-hour virtual session, you will:
· Preview a self-paced module
· Explore Worksmart’s key topics
· Discover practical tools that help learners apply what they learn right away

Ready to see Worksmart in action? Tell me you're interested at https://www.karengeiger.com/toolkit-for-collaboration!

Today’s workforce is navigating more complexity than ever, yet many employees and managers still lack practical, real-world tools they can apply immediately with their teams.

08/02/2026

As you know, today’s workforce is navigating more complexity than ever, yet many employees and managers still lack practical, real-world tools they can apply immediately with their teams.

That’s exactly what Worksmart on Catalyst™ was designed to solve! In our upcoming showcase, Worksmart in Action: Your Toolkit for Stronger Collaboration, you will experience how Worksmart’s five modules—either self-paced or facilitator-led—build essential collaboration skills right in the flow of work!

In this free one-hour virtual session, you will:

· Preview a self-paced module

· Explore Worksmart’s key topics

· Discover practical tools that help learners apply what they learn right away

Ready to see Worksmart in action? Register now by clicking here and letting me know you're interested: https://www.karengeiger.com/toolkit-for-collaboration.

07/26/2026

Don’t miss this Five Behaviors® Team Development virtual showcase ! This virtual event hosted by Wiley will focus specifically on the Team Development solution. In Teamwork: The Ultimate Competitive Advantage, you will:

*Learn about the powerful and unique Five Behaviors model and how it can be leveraged to unlock the power of teamwork.

*Preview The Five Behaviors Team Development solution.

*Experience activities that inspire cohesive teamwork.

The next showcase will take place on August 4, 2026, at 10 am – 11 am Chicago (4 – 5 pm London) and registration is now open. Let me know you're able to attend this free virtual session by going to https://www.karengeiger.com/teamworktheultimatecompetitiveadvantage and give me your info so I can get you registered. If you can't make it, you can register for the session on January 26, 2027.

07/19/2026

Conflict isn’t the problem - avoiding it is. Handled productively it builds engagement and better results. You can begin to build your capacity to handle conflict and frustration more effectively by using the Everything DiSC Productive Conflict profile.

In the Everything DiSC framework, frustration usually stems from your core personality priorities clashing with how others behave or communicate. Because every style has unique stress triggers, identifying these friction points helps reframe conflict from destructive reactions to productive engagements.

Understanding exactly what frustrates each style and how to address it depends on which profile type you are dealing with:

*Dominance (D) Style
Core Need: Results, control, and efficiency.
Frustration Triggers: Inefficiency, lack of control, having their authority challenged, or slow, overly cautious decision-making.
Destructive Response: Becoming blunt, aggressive, or dismissive.
What to do: Get straight to the bottom line, present options clearly, and act quickly.

*Influence (i) Style
Core Need: Collaboration, social recognition, and enthusiasm.
Frustration Triggers: Feeling rejected, social isolation, rigid routines, or being ignored.
Destructive Response: Lashing out, making emotional appeals, or dramatically withdrawing.
What to do: Keep conversations engaging, let them brainstorm out loud, and focus on team cohesion.

*Steadiness (S) Style
Core Need: Stability, collaboration, and supportive environments.
Frustration Triggers: Sudden changes, disrupted routines, unappreciated efforts, and conflict-filled or hostile environments.
Destructive Response: Agreeing verbally but resisting passively, or holding grudges.
What to do: Slow down, build trust, show appreciation, and avoid pushing sudden, major shifts on them without warning.

*Conscientiousness (C) Style
Core Need: Accuracy, logic, and stability.
Frustration Triggers: Ambiguity, lack of facts, strong emotional displays, or being forced to work with unproven ideas.
Destructive Response: Overly critiquing others, retreating inward, or building emotional barriers.
What to do: Bring data, give them time to analyze details, and avoid forcing them to make snap judgments.

*The CD (Conscientiousness/Dominance) Blend
Core Need: Quality results and structural independence.
Frustration Triggers: Incompetence, ambiguous goals, and having to depend on others for things they believe they can do better themselves.
Destructive Response: Micromanaging, being highly critical, or dismissing others' feelings to achieve an objective.
What to do: Provide clearly defined, measurable goals and give them the autonomy to work independently.

DM me for a free demo!

07/14/2026

One of my former EMBA students Dr Dani Chesson has written a book: Unstuckifyed: Why organizations get stuck and how to unstick them. She describes something we all experience but don’t always know how to describe - busyness that never translates into results. The book is launching globally on July 23rd with a virtual launch event.

If you are a leader watching
*transformations stall
*AI investments failing to deliver
*Productivity dragging,
join this free event to learn why this happens and how to move beyond it.

Register: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/DZh3ar-IQu62I01togQOTQ

07/13/2026

I have two products you can use with your teams or groups: one that puts each person in this model and explains how their personality (using DiSC) approaches that element (Five Behaviors Personal Development profile) and one that assesses the team or group, generating valuable discussion and action planning (Five Behaviors Team Development).

Here’s Patrick Lencioni explaining the model. DM me for a demo!

07/05/2026

I can provide you with a tool that will increase your confidence in selecting, developing and retaining top talent. It's called PXT Select® and with over 30 years of experience, scientific research, and innovative technology, PXT Select® gives your organization a competitive advantage by providing actionable data to help you at every stage of employment. DM me for a demo.