Virtual Crucial Teams Trainer Certification

Becoming a certified Crucial Teams® trainer enables you to build stronger, more collaborative teams by equipping others with the skills to understand motives, leverage strengths, and navigate conflict productively. Certification authorises you to deliver Crucial Teams training and facilitate Strength Deployment Inventory® (SDI®) debriefs within your organisation - two powerful capabilities in one certification.

Crucial Teams is built on the SDI®, a research-based workplace personality assessment that helps people better understand themselves and others for healthier relationships and more effective teamwork. Because the SDI® is embedded throughout the Crucial Teams experience, trainer certification places a strong emphasis on confidently facilitating SDI insights and applying them to real workplace interactions.

By certifying internal leaders and facilitators, organisations can embed Crucial Teams in a cost-effective, scalable way while tailoring delivery to their culture, teams, and challenges. This leads to deeper skill transfer, stronger relationships, and more sustainable improvements in team performance.

Crucial Teams Trainer Certification prepares and authorises you to confidently deliver the course through a blend of content mastery, video-based learning, facilitation practice, teach-backs, and coached group discussion.

Course Details:

• Duration: 1 full day
• Format: Virtual

Prerequisite:

You must have completed the Crucial Teams® virtual or in-person course prior to attending certification.

Certification prepares you to:

• Deliver the Crucial Teams® course with confidence and consistency
• Facilitate SDI® assessments and debriefs within your organisation
• Apply SDI® insights to strengthen relationships, collaboration, and trust
• Guide teams in understanding motives, strengths, and conflict patterns
• Confidently manage group dynamics and team-based learning experiences

Criteria to become a certified trainer include:

• Complete the Crucial Teams® course (virtual or in-person)
• Sign a Trainer Agreement with Crucial Learning
• Attend at a one-hour virtual Orientation Meeting held four weeks prior to certification
• Previous facilitation experience is helpful but not essential

Additional benefits of becoming a certified trainer:

• Authorisation to deliver Crucial Teams® and SDI® debriefs internally
• Access to the Trainer Zone with tools, resources, and updates
• Access to Fast Track certification, enabling streamlined certification in other Crucial Learning programs
• Membership in the Crucial Dimensions Trainer Community, with exclusive events, peer learning, and resources
• Ongoing support to assist with rollout, embedding, and impact