Since OKA started writing, training and consulting on generational issues in 2008, I’ve noticed a constant, and at times urgent, request to focus on Millennials (folks born between 1981 and 2000) and the need for specific tools and techniques to deal with the challenges that this large and demanding
Mixing Your EQ Cocktail: Balance, Blends, & Behavioral Change
MHS’s EQ-i2.0 model of Emotional Intelligence is comprised of 16 elements that collectively make up our behavioral face to the world—what we look and sound like to and the impact we have on the world around us. The most common approach taken with this popular tool (EQ-i) is considering the score of
To Include or Not to Include–Using the Decision Style Profile
You need to decide about a number of schedule issues regarding an upcoming holiday that impacts your office and its workers. Who works; who takes off, and when will the office open and close? Your division, just having exceeded an important delivery goal, gets a lump-sum cash bonus. How is the
Teaching Old Dogs
You can’t teach an old dog new tricks, or life begins at forty. Which is it? Teaching Christine--using the MBTI Christine, 38 years old, struggled in her new position to understand and motivate her staff. Five years prior, she claimed she would have just forced her new direct reports to do her
Baby You Can Drive My Car
Type's Building Blocks At the heart of Jung’s theory of Psychological Type are the four mental functions and the assertion that we are constantly toggling back and forth between these four essential mental processes: Sensing, iNtuition, Thinking, and Feeling. Jung’s full theory implies more