Type Books
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OKA’s Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) Introduction and Temperament Workbooks are designed as complete training resources for type trainers. They can be used beautifully with OKA’s PowerPoint slides, or on their own. |
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This page includes OKA’s Typewatching Profiles excerpted from Type Type, and OKA’s Workplace Profiles excerpted from Type Type at Work. Great type leave-behinds for clients and groups! |
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In this groundbreaking first book, authors Otto Kroeger and Janet M. Thuesen introduce the principles of Typewatching® and give readers a new way to understand themselves and others. Based on the theories of psychologist Carl Jung, Type Talk has become required reading for anyone interested in learning about personality type and how it affects daily life. |
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Bestselling authors Kroeger, Thuesen and Rutledge make it easy to recognize your type and those of your co-workers in Type Talk at Work, a revolutionary guide to understanding your workplace and thriving in it. Revised and updated for its 10th anniversary, this popular classic now features a new chapter on leadership. Get the most out of your employees-and employers-using the authors’ renowned typological expertise. With Type Talk at Work, you’ll never look at the office the same way again! |
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Otto Kroeger and Janet Thuesen address relationship issues that are always challenging and often entertaining, such as communication, sex and intimacy, finances, and conflict. It is truly a must read, whether you have a significant other or are searching for one! |
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Roger Pearman, author of the dynamic Hard Wired Leadership, gives us another powerful tool for business in the new millennium. By linking type and leadership behaviors, this guide provides practical suggestions for executives, managers, and supervisors who want to increase their effectiveness in motivating others, improve productivity and job satisfaction, and refine awareness of their leadership style while discovering self-imposed barriers to development. |
Generations and Type Workbook Many clients, trainers and consultants ask OKA for advice on how to both manage and facilitate generational differences in the workplace. With four generations spanning more than 50 years in age, generational awareness is a vital element in today’s organization development toolkit. To respond to this need, Rita Murray and Hile [...]
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This monumental book presents a dynamic look at human behavior that gets to the very heart of leadership. Based on his firsthand experience working with leaders and managers around the world, and on the field research of the Center for Creative Leadership, Pearman brings us a new way of thinking about leadership. Hard Wired Leadership offers readers the tools and step-by-step guidance they need to evaluate their strengths, identify their blind spots, and plan a course of action for mastering the leadership competencies of the twenty-first century. |
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Introduction to the CommunicationWheel™ is Dr. Thompson’s latest book describing his critically acclaimed CommunicationWheel™ system. Focusing on the role of psychological type and interpersonal communication, it provides an excellent overview of communication and detailed tables describing various languages, dialects and styles. Also includes a communication style portrait for the sixteen psychological Types. Powerful resource for the Type practitioner as well as a take-away for seminar participants. |
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This booklet, authored by OKA’s consulting director, connects the framework of psychological type with the activities and processes of project management. The booklet includes an introduction to type and key project management terms and processes, a section connecting type to project management from a diagnostic and intervention perspective, an overview of 16 “project types,” and five case studies. This booklet is a great supplement for a type workshop with a project team, or as an independent resource for project managers continuing to deepen their leadership expertise. |
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The standard for MBTI® feedback in career counseling, this book describes how type is useful in career selection, linking type to interests, values, skills, decision making, and action planning. Contains career descriptions for each type and lists the most and least chosen careers from research on type and career selection. |
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| Written for both students and teachers, this book helps people discover learning preferences and decide which tools and techniques will give the best results. Examines strengths, key motivations, and blind spots as they relate to learning or teaching. Included are guidelines to assist teachers with practical ways to provide for students’ learning differences. |
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Are you excited by active expression of your spirituality, or are you more interested in opportunities for reflection upon the divine? Learn more about how these preferences can have a powerful impact on how you express your spirituality, common stumbling blocks to spirituality, and how your spirituality can grow deeper. |
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A fundamental introduction to how an individual’s psychological type affects daily interactions at work and can influence everyday workplace activities such as responding to conflict, work style, being part of a team, making decisions, dealing with change, and communication. |
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Looking at Type™: The Fundamentals is designed to give a clearer picture of results from the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® assessment tool. This insight can enrich relationships, aid decision-making processes, and increase sense of self-worth and personal competence. The book includes the basic nature of type as a dynamic model of personality and lifelong development. Detailed descriptions of all 16 personality types are included. Each description indicates unique paths to personal growth, achievement, and applications of type in daily life. |
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This collection of 97 tried and tested exercises with reproducible masters for them is a unique resource for any trainer working with type. There are exercises that demonstrate the differences between extraverting and introverting, sensing and intuiting, thinking and feeling, judging and perceiving. It also includes exercises that demonstrate the differences among temperaments, eight functions and attitudes, and full types. |
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Combining pastoral and behavioral science expertise, the authors spell out ways type and temperament theory illuminate the clergy role. Learn how to use the 16 Myers-Briggs personality types to recognize and affirm your gifts, work with your liabilities, and understand and accept those with whom you minister. |
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Nearly 2 million copies of this best seller have been sold. A 40 year clinical study of differences in temperament and character in mating, parenting, teaching and leading. Defines four types: Dionysians (SP), Epimethians (SJ), Prometheans (NT), and Apollonians (NF). Keirsey Temperament Sorter included. |
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An indispensable compilation of more than 60 tried-and-true exercises developed by experienced MBTI® trainers and consultants to introduce type concepts to any group. Helpful hints, tips, and humor provide a variety of ways to help others appreciate the wonderful gifts each type has to offer. |
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In this book, find practical advice, ideas and inspiration to manage time effectively. Stories from each of the 16 personality types illustrate how we all manage our time differently, and provide techniques to manage it successfully. The stories and advice are unique, interesting, sometimes painful and often funny, and will resonate with others of similar personality types. |
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In this update of the classic, Beside Ourselves, psychologist Naomi Quenk explores what we keep hidden within but reveal when we are stressed. Outlining the stress patterns of the 16 personality types, this newly revised edition includes startling information on work-related stress and what happens to us when we operate in a stress mode over a long period. |
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Discover the archetypal patterns and themes that influence daily life with this new and expanded companion guide to the Pearson-Marr Archetype Indicator® (PMAI®) assessment. Awaken your unrealized potential and hidden strengths to improve personal and business relationships, find new direction in career planning, or replace unproductive life patterns. |
