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 personality assessment that provides deep insights into your motives, behaviors, and relationship dynamics. 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 four related views of a person: two about personality—the motives that drive people when they are at their best, and how those motives change when they experience conflict. And two about behaviors—those that a person uses most frequently, and those that they may overuse or misapply.
Motivational Value System (MVS)
The MVS shows a blend of three primary motives that show a concern for people, performance, and process. It explains the motives that drive your behavior when you feel best about yourself and what you are doing, providing crucial insights into your workplace behaviors and decision-making processes. When you understand your MVS and that of others, you can develop your strengths, improve team dynamics, and achieve greater job satisfaction and productivity.
Conflict Sequence
The SDI also shows your Conflict Sequence, which explains how motives change during conflict. Understanding the Conflict Sequence, which is part of core personality, helps individuals and teams more quickly identify early signs of conflict and resolve it more effectively.
Strengths Portrait
Your Strengths Portrait ranks the behaviors you’re most likely to use at work. This portrait not only highlights how you tend to approach tasks and interactions but also helps you see how you could use any strength. By understanding your Strengths Portrait you can be more intentional, agile, and effective in your work relationships.
Overdone Strengths Portrait
Your Overdone Strengths Portrait identifies the behaviors you’re most likely to overuse or misapply, potentially triggering conflict and hindering productivity. By understanding these tendencies, you can develop greater self-awareness, better adapt to changing work situations, and improve your working relationships.
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.
LOOKING FOR TEAM TRAINING?
MEET CRUCIAL TEAMS
Crucial Teams pairs the SDI assessment with skills to help teammates apply their insights and turn personality differences into performance advantages. See how the course can help you elevate team performance.
BECOME AN SDI FACILITATOR
GET CERTIFIED
Get certified in the Strength Deployment Inventory and unlock the skills to build stronger, more productive relationships at work. As a certified SDI facilitator, you’ll gain proven tools to boost self-awareness, enhance collaboration, and drive meaningful change within teams and organizations.
Whether you’re a coach, trainer, educator, or leader, SDI certification equips you to help others understand what truly drives them—and how to work better together.
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
Curriculum Integration
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 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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
