The first tool to rethinking success is to review the value of our relationships. Being able to understand people and to work with different people in a positive and constructive way has a positive impact on our health and happiness. It reduces stress, provides opportunity to grow and improves your effectiveness.
Why would you invest in the relationship intelligence of your people?
Because everything you do relies on working well with others.
We are all relationship builders.
Relationship intelligence is a skill we all need to succeed with our colleagues, customers, peers, business partners and managers.
In today’s service-based economy work gets done with and through people.
Organizations too depend on positive interpersonal connections to accomplish their goals. For this reason relationship intelligence is a foundation skill.
How do we develop relationship intelligence?
By getting down to what really matters for every individual.
High-performing teams with great relationships know each other at the core.
Relationship Intelligence means having insight into people’s core motives and strengths and being able to make adjustments, so you communicate in a style that you colleagues better understand.
We use Strengths Deployment Inventory (SDI) family of tools to achieve this.
SDI is a powerful and effective tool that helps us to better understand how to influence people who think, behave, and communicate differently than us.
SDI goes deeper than other tools because it focuses on motives that drive behaviour.
Create a workplace where relationships thrive.
Because talent doesn’t work alone.
By helping people understand what matters to people and why, and by providing a safe, common language for discussing tough issues, the SDI provides a non-threatening way to deal with conflict.
What services do you provide with SDI?
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What can I expect?
“SDI is easy to understand. It’s like psychology in 4 hours. Whenever I work with a team, they have to do SDI. Because they then work easier together.”
(Iza Login, Deputy CEO & Founder of Outfit7 Ltd., director of Login Establishment)
“SDI helped me in discovering who I am and what drives me.”
(Anja Križnik Tomažin, communication skills trainer, coach, SDI master facilitator)
“SDI provides us with a good platform for building better relations and managing conflicts. This is something every employee should know.”
(Živa Gorup Reichmann, Competence development manager at ComTrade IT Solutions)
“In IT world most challenges come from interpersonal communication. I get a lot of ‘a-ha’ moment on my workshops. I see benefits that people get a lot from this for their personal life as well.”
(Marko Kostelec, business trainer, consultant)
“Our participants love the workshop but what really give us motivation is that even though our people attended many different communication workshops, SDI really resonates with them and it works.”
(Sara Olenik, Senior HR Development Specialist at Zavarovalnica Triglav)
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Testimonials
Djurdjica Preočanin, Training & Development Manager, Coca Cola Beverages Croatia
As much as we were clear about what our needs are when it comes to ‘influencing’ as training, the more difficult part was sourcing training suppliers who could actually recognise what we need and design and deliver a customized programme. Fast Forward did the job perfectly, from Training Needs Analysis to training design and delivery. The impact of the training is now visible every day when you talk to delegates - the profiling tool itself (SDI®)
Andrej Grčman, General Manager, Klicni Center Odmev, GROM informacijske rešitve
Our business aim is to have the highest quality of customer service for our clients and to grow our business for the future. We knew that to achieve this, we must raise the attitude and skills of our team and for this reason we chose Fast Forward as our partner.
With Fast Forward we used the SDI profiling tool for all our team to increase internal teamwork and communication as well as better understand the different ways of giving great service
Tomana Burger Pajic, Personal Development Supervior, Siemens
The main purpose of introducing SDI training to target employee group in our company was usage of SDI for enhancing internal selling skills and influencing across the company.
Although majority of participants already went through various communication skills programs before, the main feedback was that this training was something completely different in a sense not only that it is an interesting model helpful for better understanding of differences between people but
Igor Boševski, Supplier Relationship Manager ESO Chemicals, Lek d.d.
We gained quite a new perspective on how we are different, with some people that are thinking deeply, while others are just goign straight ahead and some taking care more fort he people or putting the emphasis on strong relationships. Indeed, fort he phrase that we value diversity, we got a flavor of what that really means in our day-to-day work.
Nada Grozl, Customer Service Manager, The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company.
Fast Forward helped our Customer Service team to realise that an individual cannot win as an individual, but as an individual, but as a team. By using SDI we learned how to react to different types of people and this really helps to make our dialy work with customers and colleagues easier. This has helped us to solve problems together and to adapt easier with less stress to all the changes we are facing daily.
Dominik Gaser PhD, Department Head, Cell and Molecular Biology, Lek d.d.
The communication was better after our teambuilding and also performance of the whole team increased. People were speaking more openly about tehir values, style of communication and different personality types were better undestood after the workshop. This workshop helped also me as a leader since I can slightly modify the communication with each individual.
