Crucial Learning today announced the release of its newest course, Crucial Teams – a learning solution designed to help teammates develop greater self-awareness and an increased understanding of their colleagues, leading to more effective collaboration and teamwork.

Using insights from the Strength Deployment Inventory® (SDI®) and skills for improving interactions, Crucial Teams helps team members build healthy relationships by understanding their own and others’ motives, strengths, and conflict triggers.

“We are excited to offer a course specifically designed for team members to experience together and improve their relationships,” said Andy Shimberg, CEO of Crucial Learning. “Our research shows the strength of a team depends on the health of the relationships between its members. Through Crucial Teams, team members learn skills to harness the unique motives and strengths of each member, helping the team tackle challenges creatively and efficiently. The course helps teams build a culture where differences transform from a source of friction into a source of strength.”

Available in virtual and in-person formats, team members take the course together to:

• Gain a shared understanding of their team members’ motives and values.
• Develop greater appreciation for different working styles and strengths.
• Learn how to prevent and manage friction and tension to avoid conflict and improve harmony.
• Gain a more generous view of others, improving psychological safety and trust.
• Learn skills to better manage their perceptions and behaviors for more effective collaboration and teamwork.
• Learn skills to apply insights from the SDI for greater self-awareness and to build stronger relationships.

Crucial Teams is a fun and engaging team experience that’s also illuminating and instructive. Team members gain greater self-awareness and understanding of each other through interactive exercises, entertaining videos, prompts for personal reflection, and group discussions that challenge perspectives to reveal new ways of seeing and responding to others.

More information about Crucial Teams can be found at CrucialLearning.com/courses/crucial-teams.

About Crucial Learning
Crucial Learning improves the world by helping people improve themselves. By combining social science research with innovative instructional design, we create flexible learning experiences that teach crucial behaviors that have a disproportionate impact on outcomes and solve life’s most stubborn problems. Our award-winning courses, assessments, and accompanying bestselling books include Crucial Conversations® for Mastering Dialogue, Crucial Conversations® for Accountability, Crucial Influence®, The Power of Habit™, Getting Things Done®, Crucial Teams®, and the Strength Deployment Inventory® (SDI®). They have helped millions achieve better relationships and results, and nearly half of the Forbes Global 2000 have drawn on these crucial behaviors to improve organizational health and performance. CrucialLearning.com