As clients and long-time friends of OKA know, OKA was founded on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). We were the most popular certification provider for the MBTI for almost 40 years. However, the MBTI – the tool, its psychometrics, its underpinning assertions, and the way it is marketed – does
Extraverts & Introverts: Relationship Survival Tips
A fundamental clash I just received an urgent question from a client whose been working from home--in close quarters with her family--for over three months now. I would hate to see all the pain, anxiety, and tumult that we are collectively experiencing reduced to the E/I lens alone, but it is an
Paths Through Conflict
The Critical Yet Overlooked Skillset Of all the skills and behaviors essential for effective performance, the one that scares the most people into inaction and disengagement is conflict. To increase the ability for and the likelihood that our clients will take on this critical topic, OKA has
Top 10 Ways to Use a Type Table
Chief among the reasons that the MBTI is both so popular and so useful is the fact that a group’s Type data can be captured, studied and communicated through a Type Table. OKA has long put a lot of time and attention in both using and teaching others how to use these amazing training aids. Below are
Introversion Is Not a Shield
Type as an excuse I have been a passionate user of psychological type (with the MBTI and more recently the Pearman assessments) for more than half my life now, and a growing concern of mine is people’s masking—consciously or not—troubled or dysfunctional behavior with type terms. Bad decisions or