Create a better company culture and relationships with Core Strengths® SDI Assessments and Training
Do people in your company understand their natural strengths and motivations?
Does conflict arise within your team due to poor relationships, miscommunication, or lack of trust?
Core Strengths® excels in unlocking team potential by aligning with individual strengths and enhancing conflict resolution skills, essential for effective leadership and organisational success.
After decades of research, the science is clear. Teams with Relationship Intelligence (RQ) build trust faster and outperform the rest.
Core Strengths® excels in unlocking team potential by aligning with individual strengths and enhancing conflict resolution skills, essential for effective leadership and organisational success.
Measure what motivates high-performance teams
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Motives
Discover the three main reasons behind how you deal with people, work, and processes. This mix defines your Motivational Value System (MVS).
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Strengths
Get to know all 28 strengths you bring to your job through your Strengths Portrait. It also sheds light on how our motives influence the strengths we lean on the most.
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Conflicts
Find out about your Conflict Sequence, which is unique to you. It shows how your reasons change when conflicts heat up, offering you a chance to steer things back on track.
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Overdone Strengths
Sometimes, we all push our strengths too far. You'll learn which ones you overdo—an insight that helps you stay effective without going overboard.
Core Strengths Key Features
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Why It Works So Well
Personalised assessments for individuals and teams: Engaging and insightful assessments provide creatives with a deeper understanding of their unique strengths and motivational drivers.
Interactive, So What-Focused Workshops: Facilitators lead dynamic workshops using Core Strengths tools, fostering an environment conducive to creative thinking and open dialogue.
Rich Learning Materials: Participants receive high-quality resources including detailed reports and practical guides, all designed to resonate with creative minds.
Conflict Management for Creative Minds: Core Strengths offers specialised tools for understanding and managing conflict in creative settings, turning potential disagreements into sources of innovation.
Customisable to Business Needs: Core Strengths adapts to address specific challenges in creative fields, enhancing leadership, team collaboration, and communication.
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Addressing Personal Relationship Issues:
Core Strengths is especially adept at improving key relationship dynamics within creative settings:
Resolving Creative Differences: Creative fields often experience tension due to differing artistic visions. Core Strengths helps individuals understand and respect these differences, leading to more harmonious and productive collaborations.
Enhancing Communication: Miscommunication can stifle creativity. Core Strengths enhances interpersonal communication skills, ensuring ideas and feedback are conveyed effectively and empathetically.
Managing Stress and Burnout: The creative industry is notorious for high-pressure environments. Core Strengths teaches coping strategies to manage stress, preventing burnout and maintaining a healthy work-life balance.
Navigating Ego and Recognition: In fields where personal expression is key, ego can lead to conflict. Core Strengths helps in understanding and balancing these dynamics, fostering a culture of mutual respect and acknowledgement.
Collaborating Across Disciplines: Multidisciplinary projects can suffer from a lack of mutual understanding. Core Strengths bridges this gap, enhancing collaboration across diverse creative disciplines.
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Benefits for Creative & Media Industries:
Boosted Creativity and Innovation: By understanding individual and team strengths, creative professionals can harness these insights to fuel innovation.
Enhanced Team Synergy: Appreciating diverse motivational drivers enables creative teams to collaborate more effectively, producing more cohesive and innovative work.
Effective Conflict Navigation: Equip teams to transform creative disagreements into constructive discussions, enhancing the creative process.
Leadership Empowerment: Leaders in creative fields learn to recognize and utilize the diverse strengths and motivations within their teams for maximum creative output.
Cultural Evolution: Adopting these tools can lead to a more collaborative, open, and creatively vibrant organisational culture.
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Application in Creative & Media Sectors:
Particularly effective in creative environments, Core Strengths is a vital tool for:
Creative brands aiming to enhance team synergy and creative output.
Advertising and media agencies seeking to improve client relationships and internal team dynamics.
Architectural and design studios focusing on collaborative innovation and effective project management.
Businesses with multiple locations seeking a common tool to improve internal communication and collaboration.
Understanding different communication styles helps teams see the positive intentions behind each other's actions, making it easier to work together. The Core Strengths assessment and platform give each user a clear understanding of their own motives and strengths, as well as those of their team. This insight fosters better collaboration, appreciation of unique contributions, and a more cohesive, productive work environment.
How Core Strengths facilitation works
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The SDI Corestrengths assessment is a self-discovery tool that evaluates individual strengths, motivations, and communication styles. It typically takes 20-30 minutes to complete. Participants respond to a series of questions, which generate a personalised report outlining their core strengths, potential areas for development, and insights into their interpersonal dynamics. This comprehensive assessment offers valuable insights for personal and professional growth.
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In a two-day workshop led by a highly experienced Core Strengths facilitator, participants delve deep into understanding their assessment results and applying them to real-world scenarios. Through interactive exercises, group discussions, and role-playing activities, the facilitator guides participants in:
- Exploring individual and team dynamics
- Identifying strategies for effective communication and conflict resolution
- Leveraging strengths to enhance collaboration and productivity
- Developing actionable plans for personal and professional growth
The workshop provides a supportive environment for participants to gain valuable insights and practical skills for success.
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Following the workshop, I can provide ongoing support and spot coaching to ensure sustained growth and effectiveness for leaders. Through regular check-ins, individual coaching sessions, and targeted interventions, I:
Reinforce key learnings and insights from the SDI assessment and workshop
Offer personalised guidance tailored to each leader's unique challenges and goals
Provide timely feedback and support to address specific issues as they arise
Encourage continuous reflection and application of core strengths in daily interactions and decision-making
By offering ongoing support and spot coaching, I assist leaders in embedding their learnings from SDI into their everyday practices, leading to long-lasting positive change and enhanced effectiveness.
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As a qualified Core Strengths facilitator, my fee for group workshops starts at £1,000 per day. This covers delivery only and does not include pre- and post-workshop planning or expenses.
For groups of 5–20 people, I recommend a minimum of two days to ensure depth and impact. For larger teams, please get in touch for a tailored proposal.
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If you already use Core Strengths and TotalSDI in your organisation, I can collaborate with your in-house team to offer additional facilitation services and ongoing support. This helps leaders and managers continue to develop their relationship intelligence and maximise your investment in Core Strengths.
Hannah Beckett
People Operations Partner, Unknown
Because, how do you truly understand others if you don't understand yourself? And how do we help people stay their amazing authentic individual selves, when they move into manager mode?
We decided that SDI would be the best fit for us, and last week we locked Kate in a room with us for 48 hours until we better understood ourselves and one another.
Together we explored our individual and collective Motivational Values System - basically, why we do what we do and what things others do that really annoy us!
Thanks to Kate, we've come away with a much clearer perspective of how we can best work together as a leadership team and how this will support the future success of our team and clients.
I'd highly recommend Kate, and SDI to any ambitious team who are looking to realign.
I’ll help you to be yourselves but, with more skill.'
This is how Kate Southerby summarised how she could support our leadership team training at UNKNOWN, and it made so much sense to me.
About Kate Southerby, Core Strengths TOTALSDI® Certified Faciliator
Kate is a highly collaborative and dynamic Coach and certified Core Strengths TotalSDI® facilitator, specialising in the delivery of Core Strengths® programmes to drive behavioural change and culture creation.
With a proven track record and two decades of experience of delivering transformational change programmes, Kate is unique in her ability to energise and inspire teams and individuals and brings the theory and results to life in lively, on-your-feet workshops and team build sessions.
TotalSDI® is used by thousands of organisations across the globe, including the BBC, the NHS, Lloyds Bank, Arcadia, Twitter, Barclays, the Royal Air Force and HMRC to increase motivation and engagement, reduce conflict and improve relationships.
Kate Southerby has delivered over 100 TotalSDI® courses to over 1000 individuals from graduates through to senior directors.
Want to find out more about Core Strengths TotalSDI ?
I’ve been a Core Strengths TotalSDI facilitator for over 15 years, delivering interactive workshops that bring the assessment to life over 1,000 individuals and companies including Aracdia, ITV Media, Publicis Groupe, Lightspeed and creative agencies and brands including Accept & Proceed, UNKNOWN and Kiss House.
Contact me if you would like to work with me or find out more about Core Strengths.