Strengths Deployment Inventory
Last Updated (Friday, 10 December 2010 18:59)
Quest’s high performance team development programmes are grounded on
well tested team development models and can incorporate a range of
psychometric and self reporting tools and systems within bespoke
programme frameworks. In addition to profiling tools such as Myers Briggs Type Indicator
(MBTI) Quest are also able to facilitate programmes framed around or
delivered through the Strengths Deployment Inventory.
The Strength Deployment Inventory® (SDI) is the result of the research and work by Elias H. Porter on Relationship Awareness Theory, and is based on the early works of Freud and Fromm. Fundamental to its core are 4 underpinning principles:
- We all do what we do because we want to feel good about ourselves.
- We tend to take two different approaches to life; when we feel things are going well, and when we feel that we are faced with opposition or conflict.
- A personal weakness is no more or no less than the overdoing or misapplying of a personal strength.
- We naturally tend to perceive the behaviours of others through our own Motivational Value System.
The Strength Deployment Inventory® is simple to use and easy to understand. It allows teams and individuals to both communicate and relate to others more effectively. It moves beyond the external behaviours we experience in others and into the motivations, intentions and values that drive them. Understanding our own Motivational Value Systems, those of others, and how we react when these are compromised provides the opportunity to accelerate the building of stronger, more resourceful and more effective teams in any environment.
- We use the Strength Deployment Inventory® to:
- Accelerate team building, development and performance
- Build effective and rewarding relationships with others
- Understand the motivations and personal strengths of others
- Increase performance through the reduction of conflict
- Develop your negotiation and influencing skills
- Improve your sales and marketing techniques
- Develop your leaders through the receiving of feedback on the expectations of behaviours in job roles
- Create more effective teaching & learning environments
The effectiveness of this tool is in its simplicity. A positive and validating tool, it is easy to grasp and practical to use. So if you only have a day or two and really want to know how to get the best out of your team, know what motivates them and how to recognise and deal with conflict in a useful way, then SDI provides an excellent solution.