Strengths Deployment Inventory & Integrated development workshops
Creating tools and best practices
to support
to enable
to build confidence in
your team.
SDI
The Strengths Deployment
Inventory Tool
The Strengths Deployment Inventory is a simple fun tool I use to help people to build better relationships and to avoid or resolve conflict.It can be used by individuals, or by teams/departments who benefit from completing the programme and sharing the results to help them work better together.
It’s excellent for people who regularly need to build new relationships with, for example, new clients. It’s also a great tool in helping to determine the make up of a team for a new project or new client.
SDI is usually delivered in a workshop format but can be used as part of one to one coaching. Either way clients will explore principles, what they mean to the individual concerned, and how they can easily and immediately apply what they’ve learned to business and every day situations.
Workshops
Team building & effectiveness workshop
A workshop is available to use the ‘P.E.R.F.O.R.M’ process for assessing and improving team effectiveness. The workshop is useful for teams that will be working together on projects or that have collective responsibilities within a department/sector. It looks at:
Productivity
Empathy
Roles and goals
Flexibility
Openness
Recognition
Morale
Focus is also given to the importance of Trust (and how to establish it) and the behaviours that contribute to a high performing team.
The workshop can be run as a half day or full day event. The choice of duration should be based on considerations such as the size of the team concerned, the extent and complexity of the issues it is facing and the degree to which it is ineffective.
The coaching sets and SDI (Strengths Deployment Inventory) tools can be used in conjunction with this workshop.
Workshops
Objective setting and performance review (for reviewers)
The aim of this workshop is to prepare reviewers for the appraisal and objective setting process to improve the quality of the review conversations and the business objectives set by themselves and their teams.
The workshop covers:
How performance management, personal development, objective setting, reward and business success fit together;
Feedback models, the stages of giving and receiving feedback, making feedback easier to accept and more useful;
Practice sessions on giving feedback;
Best practices in setting objectives.
Each half day workshop is suitable for up to 8 people.
The workshop complements the coaching workshop. The subject matter is different and the techniques are different. The role of a reviewer, giving feedback and setting objectives, differs greatly from the role of a coach.
Objective setting and getting the most from your performance review meetings (for those being reviewed)
The aim of the workshop is to increase the skills of individuals in objective setting (personal development and business delivery objectives) and getting the most from their performance review.
The workshop covers:
How performance management, personal development, objective setting, reward and business success fit together;
Self assessment – objective self appraisal
Preparing for performance review
Making feedback easier to accept and more useful
Best practices in setting objectives
Each half day workshop is suitable for up to 8 people.
Workshops
Integrated development programme for emerging talent
This programme is tailored to your needs and incorporates Selection/Assessment Centre, Skills Workshops (strategic thinking, presenting, conflict management, maximising potential, influencing, future thinking) Coaching and Live Project Management.
A version of this programme has been delivered by in2minds for an international back in each of the last 11 years.
Testimonials
in2minds bring a rich blend of knowledge, skill and insight. After a short conversation, they were able to understand our business aims and design bespoke solutions which had a measurable impact. We have used both training events and coaching, and seen colleagues energised by the experience. So much so that I often find myself asking "what would Alan do…?”
RM (RBS)
“The Talent Programme is a holistic development programme which blends theory and practical learning and guides real life project management and experience, driven by a robust coaching and self-improvement regime.
Essentially, it’s the perfect storm of theory and guided development built around a high profile, high impact project".
Sponsored by ExCo
Being on [the programme] creates a strong bond as you work and develop together with mutual support, creating a dynamic and diverse network throughout the business.
[The programme’s] unique benefit is that it adapts to the needs of the participants through the personal coaching sessions.
I can hardly imagine having not been through [the programme], and consider it the most rewarding and enriching experience of my career so far. I would recommend it to anyone who feels they haven’t reached their full potential and wants to take control of their career".
