SDI : STRENGTH DEPLOYMENT INVENTORY


Create Effective & Sustainable Teams

STRENGTH DEPLOYMENT INVENTORY WORKSHOPS

Develop Leadership Capabilities | Understand Individual Motivations | Appreciate & Value Behavioural Differences

Overview

The Strength Deployment Inventory

SDI : Strength Deployment Inventory is a very powerful and effective platform for individuals and teams to understand and influence the motives that drive behaviours.  SDI explores people’s basic need to better understand themselves and those around them. This level of understanding allows them to work with clarity and confidence whilst being empathetic to peers.  It also equips your people with the ability to build stronger teams, and more effectively manage or eliminate conflict. The highly visual SDI is like having an operator’s manual for relating to colleagues. Some people need to be reassured that we think well of them and that their contribution is valued before they can really shine and show their true potential.  Others need to be given time to think and plan their course of action carefully before they can confidently state their opinion. Each person in your team responds differently in different situations and the SDI helps you understand who responds best to what.

Strength Deployment Inventory in Detail

What is it?

While many tools focus on what we do, the SDI goes deeper and helps us understand why we and others behave the way we do.

The results reflect people’s experiences of themselves – they actually see themselves in the charted data. But they also don’t feel pigeonholed, because the SDI allows for the reality that people are different (even when they are similar) and react differently in different situations. Today’s workforce is more and more diverse, so it’s critical to understand how differences impact our interactions. The SDI provides a base for understanding who we are and what motivates us, and it provides the same insights into others.

These insights are particularly beneficial during the stages of conflict. The SDI is a “dual-state instrument,” meaning it shows the degree and nature of changes from the things-are-going-well state to the conflict state.

Who is it for?

The SDI helps people relate to one of seven Motivational Value Systems (MVS) and one of thirteen Conflict Sequences. Each individual’s MVS is represented by a dot on a colour-coded triangle, and their Conflict Sequence is represented by an arrowhead that shows how their motives typically change during the stages of conflict.  People who work together can see their results plotted in the context of their group.

This picture of personality makes it easier for people to understand the results and talk about them. The SDI provides a common and memorable language that guides people toward greater understanding and interpersonal effectiveness.

By experiencing the SDI, people can identify their motivational values, not just their behaviours. Conflict and motivational values are closely related, because people are more likely to go into conflict over things that are important to them – a critical insight in today’s high-change business environments.

What to expect from SDI

  • It measures motives.  The science behind the art creates an accurate picture of what’s important to us – going beyond behaviours to reveal our individual motivations. And very few people disagree with their assessment results, which means they buy into the picture of who they are and what drives them so they can begin to work within that reality.
  • It’s bi-conditional.  The SDI measures the motives behind the behaviours when conditions are going well and when conditions involve the different stages of conflict. By helping people understand what matters to people and why, and by providing a safe, common language for discussing tough issues, the SDI provides a non-threatening way to deal with conflict.
  • It strengthens a weakness.  The SDI provides insight into the unique way we value different strengths and interpret the actions of others. This helps us recognise those times when we need to use different behaviours based on the conditions, our motives, and the motives that are driving others.
  • It’s a system of its own.  The insights that come from the SDI are crucial to improving any situation where people interact. And the SDI seamlessly integrates relationship and conflict management skills into nearly any training and development programme – team building, leadership development, emotional intelligence, you name it. In other words, it’s designed for human systems and organisational systems.
  • It’s memorable.  The simple triangle graphic and the use of primary colours make this a highly visual, easy to understand tool. And by using experiential teaching methods, anyone can quickly internalise the learning. And because it creates a common language for understanding and discussing motives and relationships, the training is highly sustainable.
  • It depersonalises conflict.  Opposition is healthy, but conflict is unproductive. By helping people understand what matters to others and why, and by providing a safe, common language for discussing tough issues, the SDI provides a non-threatening way to deal with conflict.
  • It honours differences.  The SDI provides insight into the unique way we value different strengths and interpret the actions of others.

TEAM & INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS

Tailored programs designed around your team goals and objectives

Discover individual strengths and challenges  Explore communication preferences  Understand individual and team behaviours

Prepare leaders & teams for organisational change  Learn how others react to change  Keep people on track during change

Understand management & leadership styles  Explore organisational impact as a leader  What it means to be a leader

Measure team and individual performance  Understand team needs strengths and challenges  Explore team performance diagnostics

Personal Effectiveness Workshop

What's involved

This programme introduces the Insights Discovery model of behaviours and personal profiles. During this interactive programme we investigate who we are as individuals – our strengths and challenges, our communication preferences and motivations and crucially how our behaviour may affect those around us.

After attending this workshop your team will:

  • Have greater self-awareness and understanding of the impact we have on others
  • Recognise and value the gifts that different personalities bring to the team
  • Build more open, honest and trusting team relationships
  • Increase communication through a common language of behaviours
  • Have agreed strategies to increase their own and collective performance
  • Be motivated to take action back in the workplace
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Leading Change Workshop

What's involved

This programme introduces the Insights Discovery model of behaviours and personal profiles. During this interactive programme we investigate who we are as individuals – our strengths and challenges, our communication preferences and motivations and crucially how our behaviour may affect those around us.

After attending this workshop your team will:

  • Have greater self-awareness and understanding of the impact we have on others
  • Recognise and value the gifts that different personalities bring to the team
  • Build more open, honest and trusting team relationships
  • Increase communication through a common language of behaviours
  • Have agreed strategies to increase their own and collective performance
  • Be motivated to take action back in the workplace
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Outstanding Leadership Workshop

What's involved

The Outstanding Leadership programme is a game-changing event that helps managers and leaders understand more about themselves, their leadership style and the impact they have on an organisation as leader. During this programme, and through the Insights Discovery profiles and colour model, we delve deep into what it means to be a leader, how our behaviour underpins our actions and how we, as a team, can collectively help shape the culture of the organisation

After attending this workshop your team will:

  • Know when to manage, or step up and lead
  • Have developed their emotional intelligence skills
  • Understand the differences in personality and how they relate to leadership styles
  • Be more aware of how they communicate with, and lead teams
  • Have agreed a set of behaviours that will support the organisation’s culture
  • Be ready to own their issues and lead from a place of humility
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Team effectiveness workshop

What's involved

The Team Effectiveness workshop is an interactive facilitated event that measures performance and brings accountability to the surface. Every team has its own unique set of perceptions, needs, strengths and challenges. The purpose of this day is to bring a framework to the team based on the results of the team performance diagnostic which is completed anonymously before-hand.

After attending this workshop your team will:

  • Have measured their performance through 16 crucial team enablers
  • Know what high-performance team-working is, and what it will take to create it
  • Be aware of any hidden blockers to achieving high performance through the diagnostic
  • Take away specific personal and team actions
  • Be able to hold one another accountable to their actions
  • Feel engaged in the process and empowered to take ownership
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