Strength Deployment Inventory ®

By working effectively together, people deliver results

Do you spend too much time (and money) sorting out interpersonal and communication issues, rather than achieving business goals and objectives?

Are the people around you in disagreement with colleagues, resulting in unnecessary conflict?

Do you ever become frustrated with a lack of effective communication within your team or organisation?

Most organisational problems, if we dig deep enough are related to the performance of people in business. By working effectively together, people deliver results. But when communications break down or conflict occurs this inevitably leads to poor business results.

The Strength Deployment Inventory ® helps us to overcome interpersonal and communication issues because it provides a framework and a common language for being able to see each other as we really are and to build more positive and powerful working relationships.

Who Benefits?

Anyone who wants to enhance their ability to work effectively with others and to reduce the potential for conflict.

Applications of the Strength Deployment Inventory ®

Teams
Understanding the motivation of team members, who to allocate tasks to, how to improve communication, get better results and solve problems quickly are many of the benefits. Teams often report a greater sense of understanding, acceptance, and appreciation of each other. The Strength Deployment Inventory ® fits comfortably with other main stream team-building models.

Leadership
Leaders inspire and lead other people. Using SDI ®, leaders learn how to engage people through effective communication and management strategies to align individuals to the organisation's mission, vision, and goals at a more personal level. Leaders are often most visible during times of conflict so they need therefore to handle it in the most effective and motivating ways is crucial to retaining motivation through peaks and troughs of organisational life.

Managing Conflict
Avoidance is better, effective management essential. Behaviour in conflict can best be understood and managed when the purpose behind it is clear. The SDI ® provides insight to the motives behind behaviour in conflict. Building the SDI ® into conflict management training helps people to recognise conflict sooner and resolve it with more acceptable outcomes whilst preserving the self-worth of the people involved. People who have had training with the SDI ® continue to use the language of the SDI ® to resolve their conflicts because it is simple, memorable and it accurately describes what is happening in conflict situations.

The SDI® and Strength Deployment Inventory® are protected by world wide copyright and are registered to Personal Strengths Publishing Inc.