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OKA has worked for years to boost collaboration within teams—teaching leaders and colleagues to co- create and nurture environments that are safe to speak. Being willing to speak up, share ideas, offer suggestions, risk being wrong—these behaviors require collaboration and an atmosphere within which
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Using the Pearman with Teams
The Pearman Personality Integrator—a new Type tool published by MHS—presents personality Type in new levels of specificity, opening up any number of new and useful avenues of Type development for those who take it. The benefits of the Pearman to individual development and to coaching are clear from
The Millennial Big 5
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
Airheads and Anchors–Using Different Change Styles
Change is constant, and how we each view and deal with it--understanding, flexing to and even using different Change Styles--is an important detail in our team, leadership and organization development efforts. Change Styles Example Claudette and Jim each manage one of two separate but
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