SDI Assessment
Insights to Improve Relationships
The Strength Deployment Inventory® (SDI) helps people understand their motives and behaviours, so they can communicate better, collaborate more effectively, and build stronger, more inclusive relationships at work.
When motives are misunderstood
Friction builds fast
When people make assumptions about the intent behind someone else's behaviour, they often get it wrong. Misread motives can quickly create tension, weaken collaboration, and make everyday work more difficult.
These misunderstandings are a common but often overlooked source of workplace friction and execution breakdown.
The SDI helps people uncover the motives behind behaviour so they can interpret interactions more accurately, respond more constructively, and work together more effectively.
Explore SDIThe Four Views of SDI
A practical, balanced picture of motivation, behaviour, and conflict supporting stronger relationships.
Motivational Value System (MVS)
At the heart of the SDI is your unique MVS. Every individual is driven by a distinct blend of three fundamental motives: People, Performance, and Process. It highlights what truly motivates you when circumstances are favourable.
- •Enhance self-awareness to improve performance
- •Align personal motives with team goals
- •Boost satisfaction by understanding personal drivers
Conflict Sequence
Learn how your motives shift under pressure. The SDI Conflict Sequence outlines how your motivations change in challenging situations, helping you navigate conflict more effectively and resolve it quicker.
- •Improve conflict management and resolution skills
- •Maintain productivity during workplace tensions
- •Foster a positive environment in high-pressure moments
Strengths Portrait
The SDI identifies your top strengths and how you apply them at work. Your Strengths Portrait maps the behaviours that contribute to your success in building relationships and achieving results.
- •Enhance collaboration through strength recognition
- •Apply strengths more strategically in team settings
- •Improve overall workplace performance
Overdone Strengths
Recognise when your strengths become liabilities. The Overdone Strengths Portrait helps you identify when your strongest qualities may be overused, leading to unintended negative effects and triggering conflict.
- •Gain greater control over your behavioural tendencies
- •Prevent conflicts caused by overdone strengths
- •Cultivate healthier, more balanced professional relationships
“With the SDI, leaders are better able to communicate with their staff, and staff interactions have improved because they better understand what is motivating themselves and their teammates.”
Katy Winecke
Learning Development Manager, CHS
Resources for Building Relationship Intelligence
Explore practical insights and expert perspectives to better understand what drives behaviour, navigate conflict more effectively, and strengthen workplace relationships.
Webinar: Building a Culture of Psychological Safety
A replay on making psychological safety a strategic priority for leaders, so teams can raise concerns and disagree without fear.
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eBook: A Leader’s Guide to Influence
Explore how understanding what drives people helps you influence more effectively and build stronger working relationships.
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Case Study: Performance Conversations Made Easy
How a financial services client used people-first conversations to make performance management more than just a process.
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Rooted in Practice
Scientifically Validated
Rooted in Relationship Awareness Theory and decades of research and practical application, SDI provides a view of personality, conflict, strengths, and how this all plays out in relationships to help people interpret behavior more accurately and improve interactions.
For a deeper look at the theory, research, and methodology behind the assessment, explore the “SDI Methodology and Meaning.”
Stronger relationships. Better results.
Use SDI to unlock self-awareness, navigate conflict, and build high-performing, inclusive teams that achieve more, together.