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.

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