Influence Working with leaders and teams for over twenty years, I have often been asked to address and develop a person or group’s influence skills. We like to use the Influence Style Indicator (ISI) to support this work. While not all, many (if not most) people regard influence as an act of force
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Why the EQ-i
In the couple of decades since Emotional Intelligence (EI) burst on the scenes as a research topic, a number of assessments have emerged as popular and/or industry favorites. So how does someone interested in Emotional Intelligence choose a tool? While OKA is most associated with the EQ-i, we
Why Emotional Intelligence?
What is Emotional Intelligence? Emotional Intelligence emerged as a field of curiosity and study, and not long after a focus of training and coaching, in the 1990s. It is still considered a new kid on the block in the world of training and development. So why has Emotional Intelligence gotten such
Meet the TPI–Team Performance Inventory
Team Performance Inventory (TPI) The Team Performance Inventory (TPI) is rooted in Impact International’s own Team Performance Model (TPM) comprised of six domains—each contributing a vital and inter-dependent component of effective teamwork. Unified Purpose — a shared understanding of why
Proving Type–Seeing It Work
Making Type Experiential Type skeptics abound. There are many in the world who don’t understand or who struggle with the content of Type theory or the MBTI specifically. For these people, I find the best course of action to be interactive training designs and the use of experiential data from