Insights
into Motivation, Communication, & Conflict Management
Styles:
Relationship Awareness® & the Strength Deployment
Inventory®
Organizational
success depends upon the quality and effectiveness of the
working relationships between its people. Conflicts that arise
between people in the workplace can damage a healthy work
environment and affect productivity. By providing people with
powerful insights into the motivation behind behavior, Relationship
Awareness® helps build better relationships both personally
and professionally. As a certified Strength Deployment Inventory
® (SDI) Facilitator, Gail uses valid and reliable personal
assessment tools to render quick and memorable results in
a non-judgmental way. The survey instrument measures an individual's
Motivational Value System® and compares individual motivation
both in and out of conflict and helps improve understanding
of self and team members with remarkable insights. The SDI
is a catalyst for learning that participants remember and
apply goes beyond behavior measurement and into the motivations
and values that underlie those behaviors and the behavior's
impact on others.
The
SDI can be administered in a two-hour individual coaching
session or in a full-day group retreat. It is a dynamic and
powerful way of looking at human relationships that aids in
building communication, trust, empathy, and effective, productive
relationships to improve personal and team performance. The
applications of the SDI include building awareness of self
and others, leadership development, team building in all stages
of development, conflict management, sales training, and dispute
resolution.
Learning
Outcomes :
Improve ability to make effective choices and influence
the outcomes of interactions and enhance Relationship Intelligence
and describe the four premises of Relationship Awareness.
Realize personal strengths in relating to others and identify
a roadmap to improve areas of weaknesses, and increase awareness
of self-impact on others.
Gain understanding of leadership styles, communication styles,
and team interactions as well as how conflict can start
and how to manage conflict as individuals and as a team.
Recognize the Motivational Values behind the behavior of
yourself and others and learn to communicate in a manner
most likely to achieve desired results for yourself and
for others.
Identify behaviors in others that suggest they are in conflict
and choose behaviors or change perceptions to prevent or
resolve conflict.
Recognize when you or others are overdoing a strength or
at risk of being perceived as overdoing a strength and describe
ways of turning it back into a strength.
Describe how Motivational Values act as filters that cause
different people to perceive situations differently.
"After interviewing each of our team members during the weeks prior, Gail introduced the Strength Deployment Inventory (SDI) at our annual staff retreat. With her usual energy and fun approach, we mapped each other's personality and learned how to work better with every other member on our team. Nearly a year after the retreat, many keep the chart on their bulletin boards for regular reference. This day that we spent learning about ourselves and each other has proven the greatest team-building exercise we've ever participated in, and we will repeat it annually."
President
PDC Productions
"A+; Gail was awesome with lots of great ideas to take back to the office; she kept our attention and we had fun!; Fabulous! The almost 300 attendees were uniform in their views concerning your program. To say it was thoroughly enjoyed by all would be an understatement. I have no alternative but to have you return in the very near future. I not only share their views, I also enjoyed working with you in the planning phase of the program. I wish all presenters were as easy to work with as you."
