Empowering Team Results

Applying Motivational Value Systems for Effective Team Collaboration

Improve relationships, manage conflict and collaborate more effectively by learning how your motivation and values influence your behavior.

Who Should Attend

This course is for leadership teams and team members in organizations and individuals who want to improve their relationships.

Course Program

Increase your effectiveness and reduce conflict by understanding the premises of Relationship Awareness Theory. We’ll discuss universal motivation, intention and behavior while exploring how motivation changes in conflict and the impact of conflict triggers. Learn how motivation and values influence behavior and gain insights into how you can improve relationships and manage conflict.

Relationship Awareness Theory centers around empowering people to relate better with others. Through applying the Core Strengths Strength Deployment Inventory (SDI) when things are going well and when in conflict, we can learn more about ourselves through this heuristic tool that involves learning through self-discovery and experiences. SDI does not look at preferences or behavior; rather it looks at the purposeful strivings and why we do what we do. The more we learn about ourselves, the more effective choices we make. Better understanding ourselves and others can lead to better relationships and communication, which can decrease conflict and improve business results.

Capture relationship-building techniques that you will be able to apply immediately. With instructors certified to facilitate Strength Deployment Inventory (SDI), our interactive workshops aid your employees in understanding the basis of their motivation and learning techniques to communicate more effectively and produce better results for your company.

Course Mechanics

Participants take part in high-impact learning assessments to better understand their motivation behind behavior. The assessment includes an inventory of questions and is based around 7 key Motivational Value Systems (MVS). These MVS are represented by 3 key colors (RED, GREEN, and BLUE) including blends. The color themes provide a helpful way to describe motivations that break down barriers and highlight strengths.

Some of the questions the SDI workshop will teach to individuals, as well as break down the best way to break down the found attributes include:

  • What motivates me?
  • How can I increase my value to the team and organization?
  • How can I improve my performance in terms of achieving business goals?
  • How can I adapt my behavior to bring out the best in everyone else?

The workshops consist of a series of modules and training sessions for team members (management teams) and a breakdown of the assessment to better understand different motives behind behaviors.

Learning Outcomes

  • Discover how motivation and values influence behavior
  • Gain a better understanding of motivators that influence the behavior of others
  • Become aware of personal responses to conflict & make more effective choices as a result  
  • Learn ways to anticipate, prevent and manage conflict situations
  • Increase communication effectiveness

About the Trainers


Maria Matarelli

Maria Matarelli is an international business consultant, experienced Agile Coach, and Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) who consults and trains companies on reaching true agility. Maria travels to consult organizations and speak at industry conferences with locations from Shanghai to Singapore and Thailand to Nova Scotia. Maria is the Founder and President of Formula Ink, an international consulting company and is passionate about working with people and organizations to inspire agility.

While looking for ways to continue to expand Agile outside IT, Maria and her team have been applying Agile to the Marketing realm with incredible results, which led to Maria co-founding the Agile Marketing Academy and becoming one of the first Certified Agile Marketing Trainers (CAMT). Maria also co-founded the Personal Agility Institute and is dedicated to helping people discover how to do more of what matters by applying Agile techniques in a holistic view of their lives.

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