Healthy workplace relationships are at the heart of strong teams and effective organizations. When people understand themselves—and learn to better understand others—they can build trust, navigate conflict, and collaborate more effectively.
That’s why we’re excited to introduce the Strength Deployment Inventory® (SDI®) Workshop, a refreshed learning experience built around one of the most powerful tools for understanding workplace relationships.
The SDI is a personality assessment that provides insights into how people relate to others. It explores what motivates us, how we experience conflict, the strengths we bring to our work, and how those strengths can limit our effectiveness when overdone. With these insights, the SDI helps individuals and teams develop Relationship Intelligence—the ability to create and maintain mutually productive relationships and apply insights to make interactions more effective.
Helping Learners Build Relationship Intelligence
The new SDI workshop is designed to help learners explore these insights and apply them to their day-to-day interactions at work. Through exercises, reflection, and discussion, learners discover their Motivational Value System (MVS), Conflict Sequence, Strengths, and Overdone Strengths, gaining practical awareness of how motives shape behavior and influence relationships.
Delivered either in person as a half-day workshop or virtually in a 3.5-hour facilitated session, the experience combines meaningful self-discovery with practical insights learners can use immediately in their working relationships.
Designed with Facilitators—and Organizations—in Mind
The SDI can be applied across a wide variety of audiences and use cases, and flexibility is key for our facilitators. With meaningful feedback from our certified communities, we heard the demand for an easy-to-deliver learning experience with opportunities to adjust and adapt based on an organization’s needs.
The SDI workshop does just that, unpacking a learner’s SDI results and exploring how to apply the insights gained from the SDI to workplace relationships, all while giving facilitators the flexibility to offer the learning experience that meets the needs of their organizational initiatives.
As part of launching the new workshop, we’ve also updated the SDI facilitator certification experience and resources. These updates were shaped by feedback from our facilitator community and focus on providing a strong, ready-to-deliver workshop design along with the flexibility to tailor the experience for different audiences and organizational needs.
Bringing Stronger Relationships into Organizations
The SDI has long been a powerful tool for building awareness, appreciation for others, and stronger relationships at work. With the launch of the new SDI workshop, it’s now easier than ever to bring these insights into organizations to help build the trust and connection that drive results.
Want to learn more about the new workshop and how to facilitate it? Visit the SDI certification page to see how you can become a certified SDI facilitator, or if you’re already SDI certified, head to Certification Zone to explore the updated resources.
