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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
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
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
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
People Want Their Leaders Certain
There are now over two dozen people vying for the 2020 Democratic Presidential nomination, and the questions to these candidates are coming fast and pointedly--"Senator, what do you think about this?" "Governor, what would you do about that?" The price for not having and answer and not knowing what