Improve understanding, trust, connection and overall team dynamics with Crucial Teams, a course built on the Strength Deployment Inventory® (SDI®).
No amount of individual talent can make up for poor relations and ineffective interactions at work. Success depends on how well people work together. High performing teams are made up of skilled and talented people who also understand and appreciate the different personalities, working styles, motives, and strengths each member brings to the team. When team members know how to cultivate healthy relationships with each other and interact productively, the whole exceeds the sum of its parts.
Is the human knot too intimate for your tastes? Did your scavenger hunt turn into a cutthroat competition? Or maybe the egg toss left you with egg on your face—and on your teammate’s?
Ditch the games for something different. Crucial Teams is built on the SDI, a personality assessment based on five decades of social science research and more than five million assessments delivered. Discover team building that works.
The SDI is a scientifically validated personality assessment that helps people better understand themselves and others, particularly as it relates to their working relationships. Crucial Teams pairs the SDI assessment with skills to help teammates apply their insights and turn personality differences into performance advantages.
Through instruction, reflection, videos, and team exercises, team members get to know each other’s motives and the strengths they prioritize at work. They gain insights into conflict triggers and learn how to better manage feelings of conflict. This team experience helps members develop greater appreciation for each other’s working styles and strengths, contributing to healthier relationships and more productive interactions.
LESSON 1: BUILDING BETTER TEAMS
Learn how the SDI can be leveraged to strengthen relationships and transform team performance.
LESSON 2: SDI ASSESSMENT
Reading your SDI report
LESSON 3: ACCESSING SDI PLATFORM
Accessing the Strength Deployment Inventory (SDI) platform as a psychometric tool
LUNCH
LESSON 4: ACCESSING SDI PLATFORM – CONT.
When they experience conflict or stress (Conflict Sequence)
LESSON 5: REGROUP & GROUP DISCUSSION
SDI Assessment debrief session
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LESSON 6: CHOOSE A GENEROUS VIEW OF PEOPLE
Discover your teammates’ motives and how to speak to those motivations to build understanding, connection, and empathy.
LESSON 7: DEVELOP A DEEPER VIEW OF STRENGTHS
Identify the behaviors that will help you and your teammates work effectively together.
LUNCH
LESSON 8: DEVELOP A DEEPER VIEW OF STRENGTHS, CONT.
Watch for behaviors you tend to overdo.
LESSON 9: DISCOVER A CLEARER VIEW OF CONFLICT
Re-think your perceptions about other people’s behavior and how that pushes you into conflict.
LESSON 10: A NEW VIEW OF TEAMS
See relationships in a new way to achieve higher levels of team performance.
END OF COURSE
While Crucial Teams provides deep insights and useful skills, people love it because it’s engaging and fun. We combine our award-winning instructional design with the world-class content of the SDI for an interactive course and team experience.
Improve the performance of your team with insights and skills to strengthen relationships and make interactions more effective. Whether your team is big or small, intact or cross-functional, we can help people who are united in achieving a common goal work better together. Complete the form to speak with a client advisor about Crucial Teams for your organization.