Now at last - a proven technique to improve communication in key relationships at home and at work
The ability to communicate is the foundation of all
relationships. When we give couples better tools for
communication, we improve more than their marriage.
Ellyn Bader, Couples Therapist
Based on the widely used Strength Deployment Inventory, this workshop provides an interesting and easy way to determine your preferred motivational values and hence your preferred communication style. Depending on your style, you will have a preferred way of interacting with others and a set of expectations about how they may interact with you.
When people have different communication styles - and mostly we do - there is the potential for unwarranted conflict when we do not recognize these styles and adapt our language and behaviour accordingly. This workshop explains the nitty gritty of how to do this in ways that are easy to understand and apply.
Key relationships
Relationships play a central role in our lives and deeply affect the quality of our lives. When relationships are in harmony, we feel good about ourselves and our lives and are able to move on: when relationships are in conflict - even to a small degree - we can begin to feel 'stuck', uncomfortable and unable to make progress with the things that matter to us.
Some of the central relationships in our lives include our relationships with our parents and then, if we are parents ourselves, with our children. Then there are our relationship with partners, husbands and wives, girlfriends and boyfriends. A relationship that starts in bliss can end in disaster and leave us feeling devastated.
And of course there are a whole lot of key relationships at work - with supervisors, with those we supervise and with co-workers - that can make our employment a pleasure or a purgatory.
We can also include our relationships with ourselves and with the Divine within us. But that is another story ...
Relationship skills can be learned
Relationships between couples, within families and at work, don't happen in a vacuum. There is a lot going on and each person in the relationship is usually trying their best with what they know to sort out issues that arise. Unfortunately, this is often not enough.
Few of us have been brought up to learn specific skills of communicating within a relationship. When faced with problems, we may find ourselves in a dead end, as it were; or spinning our wheels; or upset and disappointed. And having no way of moving past these experiences.
Fortunately there is a way to break this deadlock. The Strength Deployment Inventory is one of a number of tools that couples and co-workers alike can use to find new ways of talking to their partners or fellow workers so that the outcomes are more cooperation, less stress and greater satisfaction all round.
The SDI is easy to use
"The SDI quickly helped us understand how to use our individual strengths more effectively so that we could function as a productive team."
The SDI is easy to use and the learning stays part of our belief and behaviour system.
The SDI has helped thousands of individuals of many age groups and from many sections of society to recognise their strengths and feel the satisfaction of using their strengths to communicate more effectively and enjoy improved relationships.
The Strengths Deployment Inventory (SDI) and its associated tools helps people to recognize and use their personal strengths, to improve their relationships at work and at home and to manage conflict with less stress and more success.
We are never too old or too young to learn
The Strength Deployment Inventory (SDI) is equally effective with younger and more mature people because it embodies concepts that are universally valid. It offers insight into why different people behave differently when things are going well and when they aren't.
How does the SDI work?
The SDI is a self-discovery tool that helps you identify how you deploy your strengths in relating to others under two sets of conditions:
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when everything is going well in your relationships
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when you are faced with conflict and opposition.
Not a test ...
The SDI is not a test where judgments and "right" or "wrong" answers are graded. It is an inventory for taking stock of motivational values (the basis for how you feel and act in different situations).
The Strength Deployment Inventory provides a common language that people can use to discuss differences of opinion.
It enables us to recognise and accept other people's strengths and not feel threatened by them.
The Strength Deployment Inventory can assist in resolving conflict because it shows us our conflict sequence. When we know our conflict sequence, we are able to make better choices in how we respond to difficult situations.
Ring or text me now on 0400 156 069 to book a session. Learning how to communicate more effectively, avoid unnecessary conflict and enhance your personal and professional relationships could be your next step in inviting more happiness into your life.
