Remote Teambuilding with the SDI

Overview

Working in remote teams creates all kinds of (i) psychological pressures and (ii) opportunities for miscommunications, that occur to a much lesser extent in the ‘face to face’ environment. Effective teams, therefore, make a concerted effort to both take care of each other's well-being and communicate in an 'open', honest manner.

This Remote Workshop helps teams to do just that! It is based around delegates completing a psychometric inventory - the Strength Deployment Inventory (SDI) - in advance of a live Zoom Workshop, and then using the results to discuss how to improve team effectiveness.

The SDI is based on more than 30 years of research by psychologist Elias H Porter; it identifies four basic motivations that drive behaviours and influence how people work together. People who have different core values can find each other puzzling, and (depending on the context) may perceive their colleagues' behaviour as either intriguing or irritating. The SDI provides an effective means for understanding these differences so that both individual interpersonal relationships, and working together in a group, are energising, productive and gratifying.

Learning objectives

By attending this highly interactive and practical half-day teambuilding course you will:

• Learn to appreciate one another's strengths
• Become sensitive to signs of stress in ourselves and others
• Become more supportive of colleagues
• Gain ideas about how to deal with potential conflicts within the team
• Learn how to generate a set of common team values

Who should attend?

This half-day Remote Workshop is an on-line workshop and is ideal for existing teams of all types and all levels including: senior executive teams; departmental teams; project teams, sales teams, account manager groups and business partner forums.

Customisation

This programme is delivered in a remote format.

Where appropriate, we conduct interviews and facilitate focus groups to gather information with which to write bespoke case studies that precisely reflect the culture and work environment of the participants.

Feedback

Feedback is based upon peer reviews using Boulden Assessment Checklists. Completing the Boulden Assessment Checklists is not only valuable to the people involved in a given case study, it also helps those completing them to gain an in-depth understanding of skills used by communicators who demonstrate impact and presence.

Follow up Coaching Support (Practise makes perfect)

The workshop can be followed by a 3/4-month-long group coaching activity (using the Action Learning Philosophy). This involves delegates trying out the skills from the workshop in real life situations and getting support and guidance from their peers and the consultant as they do so. If this option is selected there is a Closure Workshop at the end of the coaching phase where delegates present how they have applied the techniques learned on the course into their daily work routine (using the Most Significant Change methodology).

Remote Training

All of our workshops can be delivered as Remote Training via e-learning modules plus Zoom based virtual workshops. Please see our Virtual Training page for more information.