The document describes a Core Strengths Accountability Workshop that teaches how to build a culture of accountability in teams. The workshop helps participants unlock the power of accountability, take personal responsibility for outcomes, deploy their strengths, adopt an ownership mentality, and navigate difficult conflict situations. It uses online assessments before and personalized tools during to reveal each participant's strengths and how they prioritize people, performance, and process. Participants leave with an Accountability Action Planner to apply the skills to a specific high-stakes work situation.

1. Get Your People to Want to Be Accountable
Attend a Core Strengths Accountability Workshop to learn how to build a proactive
culture of accountability in your teams.
How do the best-performing managers and teams get to the top? You’ve seen these rare individuals: They figure out how to
make “it” happen – regardless of what “it” is. They’ve mastered the secret of consistently producing high-quality results. They
take personal responsibility with every task, in every challenge.
They don’t wait for others to hold them accountable for results. And they don’t merely comply
with others’ expectations. Instead, they choose to embrace personal accountability.
How do you build a culture of accountability?
Attend a Core Strengths Accountability Workshop:
• Unlock the power of real accountability
• Create a system to become personally responsible for outcomes
• Deploy your strengths – the accelerant for better decision making
• Adopt an ownership mentality for achieving results
• Navigate the difficult conflict situations that eat away at accountability
• Create an Accountability Action Planner for one of your high-stakes situations
What the Workshop Covers
Before . . .
You will create a highly personalized experience by completing two online assessments – the Strength Deployment Inventory (SDI ) and
Strengths Portrait – before the workshop begins.
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Spotlight: The SDI and Strengths Portrait
Core Strengths is powered by the Strength Deployment Inventory (SDI)
and the Strengths Portrait. These valid and reliable assessments reveal your
strengths when interacting with others and provides the tools for choosing the
right strengths to use in high-stakes situations. They provide a foundation for
insights you and your team need in order to make the right decisions and own
the results.

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The SDI . . .
. . . is a tool that maps three critical priorities:
• People—a concern for helping and developing others
• Performance—a concern for directing action and achieving results
• Process—a concern for establishing clear and meaningful order
Everyone prioritizes these concerns differently. The SDI defines seven categories —called Motivational Value Systems (MVSs)—
based on how you prioritize People, Performance, and Process. During the workshop you’ll gain your MVS that will help you
choose the best course of action (strengths you deploy) to achieving effective results in high-stakes situations. This decision-
making matrix generates the power of choice that creates personal responsibility and accountability for outcomes.
The Strengths Portrait . . .
. . . reveals the way you prioritize 28 strengths. By analyzing the results, you’ll gain insight into the broader range of strengths
you can draw on during a given situations.
Together, the SDI and Strengths Portrait give you and your team unique, personalized insights needed to:
• Take personal responsibility for results .
• Develop innovative solutions.
• Make better decisions.
• Navigate opposition and conflict.
• Strengthen relationships within your team.
During . . .
The Core Strengths Accountability Workshop features:
• Interactive lessons on how to assess situations and choose the right strengths to for different situations.
• Provocative discussions with peers about overcoming common stumbling blocks that get in the way of personal accountability.
• State-of-the-art tools that deliver personalized results (the SDI and Strengths Portrait).
• Compelling videos showing strengths-based accountability in action.
• Hands-on exercises that let you practice the skills essential for Accountability by Choice.
Spotlight: Your Accountability Action Planner
You’ll leave the workshop with the knowledge and skills critical for creating
effective decision making for your high-stakes situations—including an
Accountability Action Planner tailored to a specific situation you’re facing.
Your plan will detail:
• A situation deemed important to you and your organization.
• Something you’re currently facing as a manager.
• A situation with measurable outcomes.
• A situation that involves working closely with other stakeholders—whether they are direct reports, peers, senior
executives, or customers.
The Accountability Action Planner focuses on:
• Your current reality and the critical decisions you need to make.
• Who your stakeholders are and what drives their priorities.
• What actions (core strengths) you need to use with your stakeholders to create the best possible outcomes.

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After . . .
While the workshop inevitably must end, you personal growth must continue. You’ll receive a unique code for accessing LearnerSource,
an online resource that will help you reinforce what you discovered during the workshop and continue building the skills to create and
sustain a culture of accountability in your team.
Spotlight: Supporting Resources
As a Core Strengths Workshop attendee, you’ll receive $355 worth of key resources to support your learning:
• Core Strengths Learner Guide – $100 value
• Strengths Portrait (online assessment and results) – $30 value
• Strength Deployment Inventory (online assessment and personal reports) – $50 value
• SDI Quick Guide – $25 value
• Working with Core Strengths (book) – $29.95 value
• Access to LearnerSource (online resources) – $50 value
• Guest access to one SDI and Strengths Portrait (with an online learning module
for the guest) – $70 value
The Workshop Covers Five Modules:
Accountability Through Strengths: The Key to Personal Responsibility
Our research shows that taking ownership of personal responsibilities and taking initiative for results are the
essential ingredients in developing personal and organizational accountability. Discover that while accountability
is a choice you make, it’s also a skill you can develop. Learn why accountability systems (task management,
meetings, etc.) can never effectively drive behavior change until they are linked to something deeper within
you. Use your Strengths Portrait assessment to see the actions you typically use to achieve results. And
begin using the Accountability Action Planner to delve into a high-stakes situation you’re facing with two key
stakeholders at work.
Understanding Your Core: The Drive for Accountability
The Strength Deployment Inventory (SDI) provides an easy to understand look at how you prioritize a concern
for People, Performance, and Process. Learn how your unique priorities drive the way you take ownership of
your responsibilities. Discover how these priorities form the basis of your Motivational Value System (MVS) and
the key to sustainable accountability. Participate in experiential activities to explore key MVS concepts and how
they drive your decision-making. Use the SDI Quick Guide to further build your Accountability Action Planner,
linking your high-stakes situation to what truly matters to you and your two stakeholders.
The Impact of Filters: Owning Your Perceptions
Filters help you frame a situation so you know where to focus your attention, but at times they block information
that would be useful. Explore how filters affect your ability to accurately perceive situations and effectively take
ownership of your responsibilities. Learn to see beyond the limitations of your filters to refine the assumptions
you’re making about your stakeholders.
Accountability in Conflict: Triggers and Changing Conditions
Conflict can have a profound effect on a high-stakes situation and the people in it. Hone your ability to spot the
sometimes subtle signs of conflict. Learn to choose strengths that de-escalate or prevent conflict. Discover
how your Conflict Sequence (part of your SDI results) explains the changes in the motives you experience and
the choices you make during conflict. Continue using your Accountability Action Planner to assess conflict in
your high-stakes situation and capture ways to improve your effectiveness.
Working With Core Strengths: Developing the Skill of Accountability
Learning new skills is meaningless if they aren’t put to good use. Learn how to put the skill of accountability
to work. Use your Accountability Action Planner as a guide to select more productive strengths to use in your
high-stakes situation and in your interactions with your two stakeholders. Practice taking initiative with your
chosen strengths. Learn how to link any strength to your core and take ownership for your results.
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4. W H A T ’ S N E X T
Your organization will benefit from the skills taught in the Core Strengths Accountability Workshop.
Visit www.CoreStrengths.com to learn more, or call 760.602.0086 to speak with one of our
Client Managers about your unique needs.
www.CoreStrengths.com
Phone: 760.602.0086
About Core Strengths
Core Strengths is a division of PSP, Inc. For the past 40 years, PSP has provided manager-level, strengths-based training—
backed by assessments taken by more than 2 million leaders in 40 countries. The numbers tell our story:
• 90 Fortune 100 companies use the Strength Deployment Inventory (SDI).
• Top institutions use the SDI, including Harvard University, Johns Hopkins, and Yale.
• Worldwide delivery through 14 offices serving 28 languages ensures global consistency of training and development programs.
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“Core Strengths is foundational to our leadership programs.
Our managers are excited by what they learn, and are eager to use the tools and resources.
The improvement in working relationships and communication have led to increased accountability.”
T I M P E R L I C K
S E N I O R . D I R E C T O R , P R O F E S S I O N A L D E V E L O P M E N T, C M E G R O U P ( C H I C A G O M E R C A N T I L E E X C H A N G E )
“Core Strengths is about creating a sense of hyper-awareness of what makes each of us unique—
and how we can use understanding of our differences to work more productively with each other every day.”
P E T E R B A K E R
G L O B A L H E A D O F L E A R N I N G A N D O R G A N I Z A T I O N D E V E L O P M E N T, M A E R S K L I N E
“The Core Strengths approach has helped people in our company articulate, for the first time, what drives real
accountability. It has tapped into things they had sensed about themselves but weren’t able to put into words until
now. We now have a whole new language for talking about who each of us is at our core and how we can work
together productively while still being true to ourselves.”
O R N A S A R F A T Y
P H . D . , S E N I O R . D I R E C T O R O F H U M A N R E S O U R C E S , S A N D I S K