High-performing teams are the backbone of collaboration, goal achievement, and skills-driven success.

Building High-Performance Teams

Most important among all the team building strategies noted for strong team performance is the quality of the relationships that hold team members together. In fact, relationships make or break team success. Relationship Intelligence (RQ) is the metric that matters most but is addressed the least.

Relationship Intelligence takes team building to a higher level

Essentially, relationship intelligence is emotional intelligence for teams. It hinges on our ability to reflect on our motivations and communication style and recognise and value those of others. It allows teams to collaboratively develop ways to work together in the best way possible. High-performance teams know what makes each member tick and leverages those skills for optimum results.

Team Building – Our approach

At Skill and Will, we use the Strength Deployment Inventory (SDI 2.0) to help individuals assess and reflect clearly on their motivations and behaviour. Moreover, it’s a highly effective tool that provides the team with a shared understanding of, and language for, how individuals operate within the larger group. Fundamentally, the SDI can be used as a roadmap to understand the team and plan for effective action.

Through our assessment, training, and online platform, your teams will use Relationship Intelligence to appreciate each other’s strengths and develop a strong team culture that prefers taking the initiative over personal credit.

What can you expect in a Team Building Workshop?

In our sessions, you’ll discover how to:

• communicate effectively with your teammates and clients so you can achieve mutually beneficial results
• know your core strengths and deploy them at the right time for the right reason for greater effectiveness
• increase people’s commitment to and responsibility for achieving shared positive outcomes
• assume a greater sense of ownership for producing outstanding results
• collaborate with members of your team to make the best decisions for your organisation
• create a Results Action Planner for a high-stakes situation you are facing right now.

The Strength Deployment Inventory (SDI 2.0)

Core Strengths is powered by the Strength Deployment Inventory 2.0. This award-winning, scientifically validated assessment provides four views of you. It is an incredible team building platform because it reveals why you do what you do and how you relate to others. Using Relationship Intelligence, SDI 2.0 provides a common language for understanding what’s important to the people around you and how you can work together more effectively. It provides tools for choosing the right strengths to make the right decisions, even in high-stakes situations.

The Strength Deployment Inventory Shows What Drives You

The Strength Deployment Inventory maps the three intrinsic motivators of behaviour:

People — a drive to help and develop others

Performance — a drive to direct action and achieve results

Process — a drive to establish clear and meaningful order

The unique way you prioritise People, Performance, and Process places you in one of seven Motives regions on the Strength Deployment Inventory Triangle. Beyond behaviours and strengths, your motives describe who you are at the core and show why you do what you do. The Strength Deployment Inventory powers the relationship intelligence you need to make better choices and use your strengths to improve your interactions with others.

Apply Relationship Intelligence insights at work

To help you extend the learning beyond the coaching session, you’ll be able to access your relationship intelligence insights anywhere, anytime. With the Core Strengths Platform, you can now access your results and use the online learning platform to develop and nurture collaborative and effective relationships with key stakeholders in your workplace.

Building Connections – Building Teams

Make authentic connections at work with the people that matter most. You’ll discover how to assess motives, bring the right strengths to meet the demands of even the most challenging situations, and communicate in the right style – even with difficult people. Ultimately, you will develop the skills needed to collaborate, connect, and get things done.

Read our article on achieving high performance through better relationships at work.

Where we work

Skill and Will provide professional Team Building programs throughout Australia. Our programs are available for individuals, groups and organisations. We offer Team Building in Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Adelaide, Perth and Brisbane. In addition, we’re available for consultations, meetings and seminars via video call or in-person.

Now is the time to take the first step toward building high-performing teams by getting in touch.

How We Work