Deep conversations
Media environments often combine speed, visibility, talent and strong opinions.
Using strengths and motivation to help people understand themselves and each other.
Work connected to SDI Core Strengths and leadership development inside one of the world's largest communications groups.
Publicis Groupe UK is part of one of the world's largest communications groups, spanning creative, media, technology and digital transformation businesses.
The context
Leaders in complex media and creative environments need practical awareness of what drives them, what happens under conflict and how to work more effectively with difference.
The work
We created the space to think clearly, together.
Clear thinking
Kate supported strengths-based leadership development, helping people use motivation and relationship intelligence as practical tools for clearer work.
Practical ways forward
Used strengths and motives as practical leadership language.
The outcome
Stronger foundations. Clearer direction. Better relationships.
- Leaders had better insight into motivation and conflict
- Difference became easier to work with
- Strengths were connected to practical leadership behaviour
- People could discuss impact with more clarity
“Kate has an expansive skill set that she utilises to support her coachees to work through their challenges in ways that are smart, helpful and engaging. This is a differentiator that sets Kate's style and approach apart from other coaches I've partnered with. Kate is always able to help her coachees to maximise their successes and to achieve the business objectives Kate is helping them to work through. I can't recommend Kate enough. She is someone I'll continue to partner with long term.”
The impact
Clarity that changed how the work could move.
In creative and media environments, the work is rarely about making people less distinctive. It is about helping distinctive people work together with more clarity.
Delve deeper
Related resources for the pattern underneath this work.
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Relationships
What is SDI Core Strengths?
A practical guide to SDI Core Strengths, motivation, strengths, overdone strengths, conflict sequences and how relationship intelligence helps teams work better.
02
Models
What is SDI and how does it help teams work better
Most team tools help people describe how they behave. SDI, the Strength Deployment Inventory developed by Tim Overman and now published by Core Strengths, does something more specific: it helps people understand why they behave as they do, what motivates them at a deeper level, and crucially, what happens to their strengths when they feel threatened or when conflict enters the room.
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Neuroscience
You know exactly what habit you need to change. So why haven't you?
Most leaders, at some point in their development, arrive at a moment of uncomfortable clarity. They can see the pattern.