Strength Deployment Inventory (SDI®)
Level 1 Qualification Workshop:
Improve Relationships and Manage Conflict

About the SDI: The SDI® (Strength Deployment Inventory®) is a proven, memorable way to enhance peoples' ability to communicate more effectively and handle conflict more productively. It looks beyond behavior to describe the motives and values behind behavior — encouraging a level of understanding and respect for people of all personality types. In addition, the SDI offers an innovative approach to looking at interpersonal conflict and ways to turn it into a positive force for change.

About the Qualification Workshop: This workshop qualifies attendees to administer and give feedback on the SDI in an individual and team setting. Learn the key principles of Relationship Awareness Theory, the basis on which the SDI was developed. With this instrument, attendees will be able to seamlessly integrate relationship and conflict management skills into a variety of applications such as leadership development, team building, influence and communication.

Workshop Objectives:

• Identify the motivations behind the behaviors of yourself and others
  
• Train others in conflict management approaches that can reduce the organizational cost of conflict.
• Fully explain the four premises of Relationship Awareness Theory
• Train others to give positive, meaningful feedback based on personal strengths.
• Apply at least 10 participatory exercises from the Strength Deployment Inventory Facilitation Guide and other materials provided at the workshop.

Workshop Content:

• Administration and facilitation of the SDI
• Learn how to choose behavior and communication that achieves your intended result and encourages positive relationships with others
• Learn to identify the behaviors in others that might reveal they are in conflict
• Learn to confront conflict with others in a way that achieves results satisfactory to all
• Learn and experience kinesthetic exercises that aid in the understanding of concepts
• Learn SDI facilitation techniques in group and individual settings
• Discover simple methods of charting individual and group SDI results on the triangle
• Use SDI results with a group to explain changes in motivation during conflict
• Connect SDI learning outcomes to relevant topics in your areas of interest
• Practice facilitating SDI concepts and receive peer group feedback
• Gain confidence in guiding individuals to an understanding of their own SDI result

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General Information. Fairfax, VA courses are held at OKA. They begin either at 8:00 or 8:30 AM, and generally run a full day. Please check course-specific detail for the correct start time. We provide a continental breakfast and healthy snacks throughout the day; there is a refrigerator on site if you wish to bring lunch. There are a number of restaurants and a drug store within walking distance. OKA is not a handicapped-accessible facility, though we will make any reasonable accommodation possible for our visitors.

Classes in Gainesville, FL. If you are registering for a Gainesville, FL class, you will receive pre-work and site information from CAPT. Classes in Gainesville are held at the CAPT training facility at 2815 NW 13th Street; Suite 401 Gainesville, FL 32609. (Link to Map)

Rescheduling Policy. You may reschedule one time only at no additional charge, but you must notify OKA in writing or email 14 business days prior to the start of the program, providing the registration has been paid in full. If the registration has not been paid in full, then full payment is required before a date transfer can be made. If you reschedule after the 14-day cutoff or have subsequent transfers, a fee of $100 will be due immediately for each instance.

Cancellation Policy. Cancellations must be received in writing 7 business days prior to the start of the program, and are subject to a $200 administrative fee. For one-day programs, the cancellation fee is $100. Cancellations after the 7-day cutoff and no-shows will forfeit 50% of the tuition. Materials are not refundable.

Pre-Work. Some of our classes, such as the MBTI Qualifying Workshop, require pre-work. You will receive instructions after registration; and pre-work will be mailed to the mailing address you provide in the check-out process.

Notices. OKA often participates in research designed to advance knowledge related to type and other tools. Non-identifying data from instruments you take may be used to support this research - we won't share your name or contact information with another organization without your permission. OKA may take photographs during trainings for publicity purposes. If you object to either of these notices, please notify your trainer at the beginning of the workshop.