The connections to resilience and emotional intelligence were immediate and strong. The EQ-i presents itself as an ideal—almost obvious—entry point to understanding, assessing and building resilience. Type, however, and the MBTI assessment are not as clear a set of resilience access tools as the
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EQ Under Fire
EQ Under Fire Last year Adam Grant caused a flap in the Type (MBTI assessment) community when he criticized the validity of the Indicator and questioned the decision to ever use it. This year Grant is at it again, this time taking aim at the
Resilience and EQ
Resilience is hot. 2014 has brought with it a spike in the number of requests for resilience training, keynotes and support materials. As we at OKA have flexed to respond and take this topic on, I have discovered resilience to be a topic that has spawned a good deal of research, and while there is
My Sharpest Type Tools
In my 20 years of using and teaching Type, three tools or approaches have emerged as most useful: Type Dynamics and Balance Type Development Portraits of Jung Type Behavior Type Dynamics and Balance To understand and make useful the dynamic building blocks of Type (Dominant,
Resilience and Happy Endings
OKA Resilience Series #4 Does your story have a happy ending--will you let it? If resilience is the ability to bounce back, to endure and/or to come through difficult times better off for the struggle, that means that there is a happy ending to the story, or at least to that chapter of