StrongSuits® Certified Facilitator Training
Give Your Teams a Language for Strengths.
A 2-day interactive facilitator training that equips you to run StrongSuits sessions, helping teams name their strengths, understand each other better, and start the conversations that matter.
September 17th-18th 2026 · Vienna
What StrongSuits is
StrongSuits is a strengths-based team and personal development tool that uses playing cards and games to help people have fun, feel energised, and have meaningful conversations about how they work together.
The tool gives teams a shared language for strengths, communication styles, and what each person brings. That shared language is often exactly what's needed to open up conversations about the people dimension of teamwork that might otherwise be hard to start.
StrongSuits was originally developed by Dave Corbet, who has designed and delivered leadership and team development programmes for over 70 organisations, working with more than 8,000 senior executives and managers. Now, there is a growing community of global practitioners working with the StrongSuits cards (https://strongsuits.com/)
What makes StrongSuits distinctive
Most tools in this space focus on individual personality profiles. StrongSuits was built from the outset to be used with teams: to build trust, improve communication, and create the kind of psychological safety where people feel free to bring their strengths and engage honestly with each other.
Practical, immediately applicable, and genuinely enjoyable to use. No lengthy computer-generated reports. Just good conversations, sparked by simple card games.
What you'll bring back to your practice
After the two days, you'll have the tools and confidence to facilitate fun, energising sessions that leave people feeling positive, and to:
Help teams identify their individual and collective strengths using the 52 workplace strengths embedded in the StrongSuits cards
Give people a shared language for how they communicate, how they prefer to interact, and how their different styles show up across the team
Use the Team Strengths Map to visualise communication styles across the team and open up conversations about where differences might create friction
Work with overplayed strengths, helping individuals and teams recognise when a strength is being stretched too far and explore how it can be transformed
4 insights from modern psychology
This is what StrongSuits is built on, and what you'll learn to work with.
People perform at their best when they play to their strengths
Diversity makes teams stronger
People interact and communicate in different ways
Every strength can be overplayed and become a limitation
Who this training is for
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Team Coaches, Facilitators, Agile Coaches, Scrum Masters and those in similar roles who want to build stronger teams
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Leaders in HR, Talent, Culture, L&D, OD, DEIB and those in similar roles who want to develop a more engaged, diverse and inclusive workforce
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Career and Business Coaches who want to support their clients to play to their strengths and to communicate more effectively
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Leaders and Managers who want to truly understand and play to individual strengths on their teams for innovation and high performance
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Entrepreneurs who want to recruit a diverse team of talent as they grow
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Career Changers and Personal Development Enthusiasts who want to play to their strengths and transform their limitations into opportunities for growth
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Universities and Academic Institutions who want to foster greater teamwork on projects and assignments
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Organisational Change Agents who want to understand how each team responds to and contributes to the change
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Inter-personal Mediators who want to facilitate a safe and non-intrusive way of resolving conflicts that is both appreciative and improvement-oriented
Structure of the Training
The training is spread over 2 parts, each with a distinct focus:
In part 1 you will experience the best of the StrongSuits Team Strengths and Team Insights workshops as a participant in the group. This will allow you to experience the power of StrongSuits as a group or team member. You will experience theory and practice in small chunks, reflect on inspiring stories, work through fun games and exercises and focused group discussions.
In part 2 we will dive into facilitation practice for each topic and you will gain hands-on practice by facilitating games yourself and exchanging feedback with each other. The goal is to give you the confidence and provide you with everything you need to get started right away using StrongSuits to build stronger teams and in one-to-one coaching.
Topics Covered
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The Big Ideas – StrongSuits is based on the most current insights from modern psychology about what makes teams work and what limits them
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Your Winning Hand Game – You will identify your own strengths and develop an appreciation of the group’s strengths
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Your Opposite Number Game – You’ll develop an appreciation of the cognitive diversity in the group and how this contributes to team performance
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Your StrongSuit Game – You’ll identify how you and others prefer to interact, how you deal with conflict and how you handle responsibility
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Your Shadow StrongSuit Game – You’ll identify how your interaction style changes under negative conditions
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The StrongSuits Team Strengths Map™ – You’ll map how you behave as a team under positive and negative conditions and explore how you can develop.
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Overplayed Strengths – You’ll understand how strengths can become limitations when they are overplayed
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Transforming Allergies – You’ll identify what qualities in others you might be allergic to and a simple yet powerful tool to transform those allergies
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Transforming Overplayed Strengths – You’ll learn a simple way of identifying and transforming self-limiting overplayed strengths
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At Your Best.. and Even Better If.. – You’ll learn a powerful technique to appreciate each other’s strengths and to give and receive constructive feedback on areas for growth
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Your Point of Breakthrough – You’ll identify the difference that makes the difference and the change that you’re committed to working on
What You Will Receive
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StrongSuits Team Insights™ Foundation cards
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The StrongSuits Facilitator Manual containing
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Class worksheets, detailed instructions and facilitation guides for all games and exercises
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Notes on how to use StrongSuits in coaching to support individuals
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Notes on the derivation of the StrongSuits multi-layered meta model of human personality in the workplace
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Post-course digital downloads
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Access to an exclusive online community of StrongSuits Certified Facilitators
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An official certificate from StrongSuits in digital format
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You will also have the option to apply to become a Licensed StrongSuits Trainer to use the StrongSuits materials and brand to organise, promote or deliver in-company or public workshops, sessions, events or trainings.