Leadership Development
Learn leadership as a relationship
Most leaders use a one-to-many communication approach, leading to misunderstandings and lost productivity. But it’s possible to tailor your leadership style to every person you manage.


Close the Gap Between What You Said and What They Heard
Successful leadership is about more than just people skills.
- Understand your own motives and strengths
- Understand each direct report’s motives and strengths
- Use that knowledge to adjust your communication approach with each person
- Coach your people without fear of being misunderstood
- Talk about challenges you’re experiencing within a team
- Forever leave behind “That’s just who I am; take it or leave it” as a leadership style
The Core Strengths Approach to Leadership Development
Recast the Past, Master the Moment, Co-Create the Future
Relationships are built on shared experiences and future expectations. Relationship Intelligence (RQ) helps you adjust your approach to bring out the best in each person you lead.Â
By shifting past perceptions, leaders are better equipped to have productive interactions with colleagues in the present moment. Leaders use awareness of team members’ motives and strengths to collaboratively set goals for the future.
Recast the past​
Master the moment
Co-create the future
This approach fosters a sense of inclusion and instills all team members with personal responsibility for getting results.
Leading now
Relationship Intelligence and four trends in leadership
Read our white paper to learn how to reduce conflict on teams, foster inclusion, eliminate bias, and build trust.
Leadership Development, Designed Just for You
Assessments, Training, and the Core Strengths Platform
We believe that one-size-fits-all leadership doesn’t work, and a one-size-fits-all leadership development approach doesn’t work either. That’s why our offerings allow each individual to discover their own strengths and practice their own leadership style.
Our solution is flexible and easily integrates with any other leadership development training you use.








Our Strengths Deployment Inventory 2.0 (SDI 2.0) is at the center of our leadership development approach. When leaders understand themselves, they better understand the behavior of the people around them.
Experiential workshops allow you to practice leading with RQ in real time, through virtual or onsite training.




















Real-time access to insight into how to lead each direct report, at your fingertips, so you don’t have to memorize anything.
The Results
Customer Success Stories
Core Strengths has a strong track record of delivering results through its comprehensive leadership development offering as well as integrating with our clients’ new and existing training efforts. Learn about the results our customers have achieved by leveraging Core Strengths to build great leaders within their organizations.