- Positively approaching challenges and change through effective communication
- Using creative problem solving techniques to maintain a stable and friendly work environment
- Influencing and motivating others
- Inspiring others toward adopting a positive vision of the future
- Building rapport and lasting relationships with your clients
- Understanding buyer's reasons for purchasing decisions
- Handling objections in a constructive manner
- Negotiating effectively with customers
- Understanding what makes each member of the team tick
- Identifying what triggers conflict for each member of the team
- Understanding individual and team strengths
- Exploring opportunities for future team growth
- Managing people within projects
- Project kick-off meetings
- Stakeholder relationship building
- Managing conflicted situations and complex projects
- Feedback techniques
- Conflict situations during coaching
- Questioning strategy
- Active listening
- Self awareness and empathy building
- Relating to others based on their strengths and individual motivations
- Setting goals and adapting behaviours to meet them
- Increasing the self-esteem and tolerance levels
- Depersonalizing conflict situations
- Understand what triggers conflict in people
- Recognizing conflict signals
- Adapting your behaviours in conflict in order to resolve it effectively
- Implementing organizational strategy company wide
- Communicating strategically
- Ensuring the strategy is clear to all stakeholders
- Ensuring everyone's buy-in to the process
- Supporting change management strategies in groups
- Developing change manager relationship management skills
- Helping manage resistance during change
- Understanding peoples' behaviour during change
- Linking organisational values with personal values
- Culture change initiatives
- Organisational motivational values mapping
- Implementing desirable behaviour changes to support values
- Presenting to small and large groups
- Understanding what audiences really need to hear
- Influencing decision-making through effective communication
- Engaging people and insipiring action
- Understanding cultural differences and the role they play in problem solving and decision making
- Building tolerance, a better working environment and relationships
- Increasing awareness of workplace diversity of people’s motivations
- Helping team members appreciate the value of differences
- Increasing mediator and participant self-awareness around issues related to personal reactivity and motivational drivers
- Recognizing personality differences and empowering people to make meaningful and informed decisions
- Enabling conflict shifts and achieving conflict transformation
- Gaining skills relating to effective mediation communication techniques
- Acknowledging what matters most to individuals in life, and how to effectively use their strengths in various settings
- Helping people gain new insights into how they view themselves, the way they prioritise their life, and the ways they act on their values
- Understand and appreciate differing perspectives, as well as helping individuals adapt their communication in ways that will be meaningful and effective for the others as well
- Addressing underlying conflict productively and with integrity, so that it will preserve the relationship
SDI Applications
SDI® has endless applications, revolving around Relationship Awareness Theory® and how it can improve human interactions and resolve conflict in a more effective way. Here are some examples of the ways in which SDI® can be used:
SDI® Leadership is about motivating, inspiring people and building winning teams.
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SDI® helps salespeople to see that the key to a successful sales career lies in being able to relate to people on their own terms.
SDI® is powerful in that it shows that in order to appeal to potential customers, one needs to speak to them in their own language, tailoring the communication style to each individual.
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Team Development can take many different shapes and forms, depending on what you want to achieve, the function of the team, and the stage they are at in their development.
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SDI® is effective in enhancing project team's interpersonal and communication skills. It is useful to assist "traditional" project managers to broaden their "people" focus.
SDI® assists managers in task distribution and resource allocation, based on the insight the SDI® tool provides, regarding each team member's Motivational Value System (MVS).
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SDI® ffits very well within any coaching situation, be it in individual or group sessions. As a coaching tool it is recognised by ICF and the SDI facilitator qualification is an accredited programme by ICF.
It gives coaches and coaches an accessible and comprehensive framework, as well as a fast way to implement the desirable changes.
- SDI® helps the coach with:
- SDI® helps the coachee with:
SDI® conflict management gives teams the tools they need to recognise and resolve conflict. Relationship Awareness helps people understand their own changing motivations during conflict situations and recognise what's important to other people and more importantly, what to do to resolve conflict effectively.
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SDI® Strategic Planning ensures that strategic goals are clear, teams are aligned to these strategic goals and strategy is communicated to everyone concerned.
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SDI® is a powerful tool to support change advocates, change managers, those implementing change and groups affected by change. SDI® helps with:
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SDI® supports company vision and values implementation, and offers insights into organisational strengths, value sets and cultural norms across the organisation.
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SDI® allows team members to understand key principles of communication, and how to present mesages in an effective and powerful way.
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SDI® supports company diversity values by encouraging team members to recogize, accept and work through and with their differences.
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SDI® suports alternative dispute resolution professionals by giving them a simple, yet effective tool to enable empowerment shifts in the mediation process.
Recognizing differences in personalities and conflict interaction, gives both participants in mediation sessions, and the mediator as well, the chance to achieve meaningful conflict transformation.
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SDI® is a useful tool for any counselling professional, psychologist or social worker. Having been designed by a psychologist, Dr. Elias Porter, SDI® is an effective vehicle in understanding different personalities, relationship dynamics and addressing areas for self and relationship development.
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