The Strength Deployment Inventory is a fifty-year-old assessment used by more than five million people. It explains why you do what you do, what happens to you in conflict, and which strengths you overdo. We run the workshops. Then the coach keeps it alive.
A snapshot of who you are that goes beyond behaviour to the motive underneath it. Memorable, visual, and built to be used the next day.
Everyone runs on a blend of three motives: helping people, getting results, and establishing order. The SDI paints a clear picture of your blend, the why behind what you do.
Conflict starts when our motives feel threatened, and our motives shift in a predictable sequence as it deepens. Knowing your sequence, and theirs, changes how you handle the moment.
A portrait of the strengths you reach for first, and how you prioritise them to get results.
A strength used too hard stops working. Confident becomes arrogant, caring becomes smothering. The SDI shows you where that happens for you.
Most of us are a blend. The dot on your SDI triangle shows the blend, and the arrow shows where it goes under pressure.
Motivated by the protection, growth and welfare of others. Wants everyone carried along, and notices when they are not.
Motivated by results, action and the smartest, fastest route to the goal. Wants the plan, and wants it now.
Motivated by order, reason and doing things properly. Wants the thinking done before the doing.
An online assessment, about twenty minutes. Your results arrive as a picture: your dot, your arrow, your strengths portrait.
Your facilitator debriefs the results with you, or with your whole team on one triangle, so you see each other's motives side by side. Half a day or a full day, in person or remote.
The insight fades unless you use it. The SDI coach is there for the real conversation on Tuesday, when the workshop is a memory.
Trained on the SDI and on how Different Dynamics teaches it. It never guesses someone's results, and anything only a person should answer goes to your facilitator.
Twelve months of access after your workshop, on any device, whenever the moment is real.
Tell us about the team and the moment. We will suggest the format, and you will have a date within the week.
Talk to us about the SDI