Description: Trust, fluid communication, and the ability to explore all sides of an issue are at the core of high-performing teams. Core Strengths will deploy its Relationship Intelligence (RQ) to help increase understanding of and build greater connection between individual team members by enabling them to adapt their communication to the unique personalities of each team member. Doing so will reduce conflict and build trust leading to greater team effectiveness and organizational success.

How it Works: Core Strengths pairs the SDI 2.0 assessment along with its Results through Relationships training course to create awareness of individual and team motives and strengths. Participants will conduct experiential exercises to apply the newfound insight leading to improved relationships, greater trust, and ultimately team effectiveness. The Core Strengths Platform will reinforce and sustain the learning while providing real-time communication tips to foster better working relationships and team effectiveness.

Outcomes:

Greater understanding and appreciation of diverse motives and strengths within work teams

Deeper relationships and trust through improved understanding and communication

Increased productivity via greater collaboration among team members

Greater ability to prevent and manage conflict among team members

Description: Collaboration at its core depends on an appreciation of the unique perspectives and differences of team members. Core Strengths deploys its Relationship Intelligence (RQ) to increase awareness, understanding, and appreciation of team members’ motives and strengths leading to greater collaboration among colleagues and between managers and direct reports. Stronger internal collaboration will also cascade externally to create more collaborative customer.

How it Works: Core Strengths pairs the SDI 2.0 assessment along with its Results through Relationships training course to create awareness and appreciation of individual and team motives and strengths. Participants conduct experiential exercises to apply the newfound insight leading to improved collaboration. The Core Strengths Platform will reinforce and sustain the learning while providing real-time tips to improve communication and prevent the conflict that can impede collaborative working relationships.

Outcomes:

Greater understanding and appreciation of individual motives and strengths within work teams

Improved communication among team members in support of more effective collaboration

Ability to prevent and manage conflict among team members which can impede collaboration

Description: Increasing diversity within teams has shown the ability to boost innovation and improve company performance. Diversity can also create conflict if companies fail to equip employees with tools to understand and appreciate the diverse makeup of teams. Core Strengths views diversity through the lens of personality diversity with a focus on individual motives and strengths. Core Strengths deploys its Relationship Intelligence (RQ) to help employees increase awareness of fellow team members diverse motives and strengths while using that insight to improve communication, support collaboration, reduce conflict, and leverage diversity for greater innovation.

How it Works: Core Strengths pairs the SDI 2.0 assessment along with its Results through Relationships training course to create awareness and appreciation of diversity within teams. Participants conduct experiential exercises to apply the new insight leading to improved communication and more effective conflict management. The Core Strengths Platform reinforces and sustains the learning by providing real-time tips to improve communication, prevent conflict, and leverage diversity for greater innovation.

Outcomes:

Greater understanding and appreciation of personality diversity within work teams

Improved communication among team members and more effective conflict management

Ability to harness a diverse set of motives and strengths within teams to spur innovation

Description: Conflict damages relationships and can lead to lower engagement, absenteeism, turnover, and even litigation. Opposition, on the other hand, is healthy debate. Core Strengths deploys its Relationship Intelligence (RQ) to help teams discern opposition from conflict and to use a common language to discuss differences and brewing tensions. Doing so reduces the drag of conflict on team effectiveness while enabling teams to discuss the thorny topics while embracing diverse perspectives that could lead to breakthrough performance.

How it Works: Core Strengths pairs the SDI 2.0 assessment along with its Results through Relationships training course to teach participants how to identify, prevent and manage conflict more effectively. Participants conduct experiential exercises to apply the new insight to appreciate how people process conflict in different ways while learning communication strategies to steer from conflict back into productive opposition. The Core Strengths Platform reinforces and sustains the learning by providing real-time tips to improve communication as well as prevent conflict and manage conflict leading to team effectiveness.

Outcomes:

Understand the diverse personalities of team members and how that can trigger conflict

Ability to transform conflict into healthy debate that leverages diverse viewpoints

Improve team effectiveness by reducing time spent on conflict and damage to relationships

Description: Agility helps organizations adapt to change, both internal and external. Doing so requires the creation of agile organization structures and talent strategies. Organizational agility relies on leaders, teams, and individuals building an environment of trust, openness, and transparency. Core Strengths deploys its Relationship Intelligence (RQ) to help participants understand their motives and strengths so that they can adapt to different situations and become comfortable entering into productive dialogue and debate.

How it Works: Core Strengths pairs the SDI 2.0 assessment along with its Results through Relationships training course to teach participants to understand what drives them and choose the the right strengths for the right situation.  Participants also learn to understand and interact with diverse personalities to improve team effectiveness critical during times of change. Further, Core Strengths helps build trust within teams and shift conflict to productive dialogue and debate yielding better outcomes. The Core Strengths Platform reinforces and sustains the learning by providing real-time tips to communicate and engage in productive debate while avoiding conflict.

Outcomes:

Agile organizations that are resilient to change, both internal and external

The creation of interpersonal agility to support communication across diverse organizations

Shift conflict into productive debate in support of better solutions and outcomes to change