Strength Deployment Inventory
Insights to Improve Relationships
Improve communication, collaboration, inclusion—virtually all aspects of work that involve interpersonal interactions—with the SDI® assessment.
STRENGTH DEPLOYMENT INVENTORY
Transform Your
Workplace Relationships
The Strength Deployment Inventory (SDI) is a powerful workplace personality assessment that provides deep insights into your motivations, behaviors, and relationship dynamics in professional settings. These insights help you know yourself more fully, understand others more accurately, manage yourself more effectively, and achieve better results by building healthier relationships.
ENHANCE YOUR SELF-AWARENESS
The Strength Deployment Inventory (SDI) offers a comprehensive understanding of your workplace personality through four interrelated views: two that reveal what truly drives you at work, and two that highlight your preferred strengths—the behaviors you’re most likely to use (and sometimes overuse) when collaborating with colleagues.
Motivational Value System (MVS)
At the heart of the Strength Deployment Inventory is your unique Motivational Value System (MVS). Every individual is driven by a distinct blend of three fundamental motives: People, Performance, and Process. Your personal MVS illuminates what truly motivates you when circumstances are favorable, providing crucial insights into your workplace behaviors and decision-making processes. By understanding your MVS, you can harness your strengths, improve team dynamics, and achieve greater job satisfaction and productivity.
Conflict Sequence
The SDI assessment reveals not just your default motivations, but also how they change under pressure. Your unique Conflict Sequence illustrates the dynamic shifts in your motives when facing workplace obstacles or interpersonal tensions. By understanding this sequence, you gain valuable insights into your conflict management style, helping you navigate challenging situations more effectively, improve team dynamics, and maintain productivity even when under stress.
Strengths Portrait
In the context of the SDI assessment, strengths are defined as behaviors that foster positive outcomes in professional relationships. Your personalized Strengths Portrait provides a comprehensive ranking of the behaviors you’re most likely to use in your work environment. This portrait not only highlights how you naturally approach tasks and interactions but also reveals the strategies you use to get results. By understanding your Strengths Portrait, you can employ your strengths more effectively, improving team collaboration and your overall workplace performance.
Overdone Strengths Portrait
While strengths are crucial for success, the SDI assessment recognizes that even our best qualities can become liabilities when overused or misapplied. Your personalized Overdone Strengths Portrait identifies the workplace behaviors you’re most likely to overdo, potentially triggering conflicts and hindering productivity. By understanding these tendencies, you can develop greater self-awareness, improve your professional relationships, and fine-tune your approach to various work situations.
Get Started
Complete the form to request a demo. We’ll show you how the SDI can help you and your teams:
- Develop a deeper understanding of the core motives that drive behavior.
- Improve communication with colleagues and team members.
- Enhance leadership skills and emotional intelligence.
- Navigate workplace conflicts more effectively.
- Boost overall job satisfaction and performance.
Insights to Drive Organizational Excellence
The insights from the SDI contribute to a better understanding of yourself and a more generous view of others, leading to healthier interactions that have significant organizational impact. Discover how the SDI can transform your workplace.
Team Building
Leadership Development
Conflict Resolution
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging
Management & Coaching
Personal Growth
Collaboration & Teamwork
Engagement & Retention
The SDI Platform
The SDI Platform allows teams and organizations to make the most of the individual insights they gain. As people in your organization complete the assessment, you can view and compare personality differences and communication preferences, fostering understanding and collaboration.
The platform includes:
- Personalized Debriefs: Receive in-depth analysis of individual assessment results, enhancing self-awareness and personal development.
- Team and Coworker Profiles: Access comprehensive profiles of your coworkers to better understand their motives, strengths, and conflict triggers, as well as insights on how to better interact and communicate with them.
- Strategic Communication Tools: Utilize tailored tips and insights to craft impactful messages, prepare for crucial meetings, and navigate conflict effectively.
SDI APP INTEGRATIONS*
Overcome the digital barriers to connection and collaboration with integrations that make insights actionable—in the moment, when it counts. *Integrations are an add-on feature and not included with a standard learner license.
Adapt your communications to your coworkers’ personalities for more efficient and effective collaboration, and be authentic too. With the SDI integration for Slack, you can see your teammates’ motives and conflict triggers and get tips for making the most of your interactions.
Get tips and insights to meaningfully communicate with your colleagues, so you know where they’re coming from and can speak their language. Hold more effective meetings, prevent and resolve conflict, and speak to a person’s personality with tips from the Zoom integration.
Healthy interactions are essential for team productivity. The SDI app for Microsoft Teams allows you to draw on personalized insights to make the most of each and every interaction.
With the SDI app for Outlook, you’ll get personalized tips for every email and meeting, directly in your inbox. Customize your communications to every person you work with, and bring your most productive strengths to each meeting and interaction.
BECOME AN SDI PARTNER
Elevate your business and increase your impact by becoming an authorized SDI partner. As an SDI partner, you’ll gain access to industry-leading personality assessment tools, comprehensive training resources, and ongoing support. Empower your clients with deep insights into team dynamics, leadership development, and conflict resolution. Join our network of successful partners and unlock new revenue streams while delivering transformative results to organizations worldwide.
SECURITY AND PRIVACY
Your privacy is our priority. We implement controls consistent with industry best-in-class privacy and security standards and regulations to protect your company and employee data.
We follow industry-standard SDLC (Software Development LifeCycle), which includes OWASP best practices.
We have independent firms conduct penetration testing to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities.
If you have questions about security and privacy in our various platforms, please visit our Help Desk.
