core strengths
Core Strengths and the Strength Deployment Inventory® 2.0
Core Strengths is the revised and updated assessment and training offered by Personal Strengths Publishing,
provider of the Strength Deployment Inventory® 2.0 (SDI® 2.0)
The SDI® 2.0 is a powerful and memorable psychometric tool that helps us to positively manage interpersonal and communication issues. It can be accessed via an app for ongoing future reference and communication guidance day to day.
Why is it so powerful?
Many of the challenges faced in business are related to issues of poor communication and poor relationships.
When relationships are weak or problematic, results are always affected.
Conversely, great inter-personal understanding and strong relationships enables innovation, resilience, personal
and team growth and positively impacts results.
One to One coaching
One to one coaching, based on the insights gained from completing the SDI® 2.0, is offered to help individuals
in resolving current relationship challenges and equip them with invaluable insights for building
effective relationships in the future.
Team Effectiveness Workshops
The team programmes can be delivered either in person over either one full day or two half days or over 3 separate online sessions, to provide the team with 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.
All materials used are authorised SDI® materials purchased from Core Strengths
Core Strengths – Results through Relationships
1 Day Workshop
In this in-person workshop you and your colleagues will learn a common language and gain actionable insights,
enabling you to build a working environment where relationships thrive.
You’ll discover how to:
■ Recognise your strengths and deploy them at the right time for the right reason for greater effectiveness
■ Adapt your communication style for improved communications, relationships and teamwork
■ Increase people’s commitment to and responsibility for achieving shared outcomes
■ Identify potential sources of interpersonal conflict within the team and plan for ways to resolve/manage these
■ Build and sustain resilient and collaborative relationships to make the best decisions for your
organisation and drive results
■ Create a Results Action Planner for a high-stakes situation you are facing right now
Pre-work: All team members to have completed the SDI 2.0 and to have read through the 5 sections,
watched personalized debrief videos and marked the statements at the bottom of each section that are true about self.
Agenda
9:00am - Introductions, Objectives, Agenda and Agreements for the workshop
Introductory exercise
Exploring different motivational values and the potential impact of these differences on team cohesion
Assessing motives when there is conflict and recognising the stages we can go through
1:00pm - Lunch
1:40pm - Our Strengths and reasons for deploying these
Recognising how we might overplay our strengths and links to conflict triggers for ourselves and others
Exercises to explore and practice adapting communication style for our best outcomes
Results Action Planner – how will we use this?
4:30pm - Close
Online programme – 3 modules
Across 3 separate modules you and your colleagues will learn a common language and gain
actionable insights, enabling you to build a working environment where relationships thrive.
You’ll discover how to:
■ Recognise your strengths and deploy them at the right time for the right reason for greater effectiveness
■ Adapt your communication style for improved communications, relationships and teamwork
■ Increase people’s commitment to and responsibility for achieving shared outcomes
■ Identify potential sources of interpersonal conflict within the team and plan for ways to resolve/manage these
■ Build and sustain resilient and collaborative relationships to make the best decisions for your organisation and drive results
■ Create a Results Action Planner for a high-stakes situation you are facing right now
Pre-work: All team members to have completed the SDI 2.0 and to have read through the 5 sections, watched personalized debrief videos and marked the statements at the bottom of each section that are true about self.
Agendas
Module 1: 2.5 hours
Introduction – Objectives, Module overview, Agreements
Assessing Motives: When Things are Going Well
Exploring what this looks like for team members
Preparing for Module 2 and Action Planning
Module 2: 2.5-3 hours
Opposition vs Conflict, and Assess Motives: When There is Conflict
Team activity to explore how this is experienced and how conflict may be reduced
Preparing for Module 3 and Action Planning
Module 3: 2.5 hours
Bringing the Right Strengths and Communicating in the Right Style
Exploring strengths and how these can be overdone
Practicing adapting communication style for optimum results
Results Action Planning and planning for ongoing reinforcement of team learning
