Teams always need help. Even teams that are gifted, focused and high-functioning (and there are precious few of these) tend to run into the same challenges and face the same tensions time and time again. Within the voice and structure of OKA’s newest team tool, the TPI (Team Performance Inventory),
A Path to Dynamic Team Performance
What model or tool do you use to achieve better team performance? Team performance depends on a team's inner dynamics and focus, but they are just as dependent on external factors and support. Effective teams need not only a clear purpose and goal, but a collectively held idea of how the group will
Safe to Speak Cultures and Teams
A common barrier to productivity, collaboration, innovation and team cohesion are groups and meetings within which participants do not feel safe to speak—free to engage, suggest options, express opinions, and be open and fully participative. This might stem from a fear of retribution,
Feedback–The Powerful Gift You May Not Have Asked For
Feedback is likely the most essential interpersonal and team skill that far too few people use. Often misunderstood as an advanced skill or team activity, it should be viewed as a basic, must-have practice. We have put this video together to introduce you to 4 key insights about effective feedback;
Surviving the Beat-down
OKA Resilience Series--#1 Aging Boomers with fewer options for retirement, a crush of Millennials with limited entry points to an increasingly constricted workforce, ever greater demands for productivity, stagnant wages, economic insecurity, globalization-driven competition, intransigent