What’s New at OKA
August 2008: OKA Continues to Support APTi Chapters
Otto Kroeger, Hile Rutledge, and Jennifer Tucker continue this Summer to donate their time to support local Association for Psychological Type International (APTi) chapters. In August, Otto presented for the Northern Virginia APTi (NoVA APT) Chapter; in September, Jenny speaks for the APTi e-Chapter on the topic of "Designing Type Sessions for Project Teams" (Download Slides). In past months, Hile has given talks for both the Northern Virgina APTi Chapter and the e-Chapter as well. Local APTi chapters provide a valuable forum for local type-based community building. We are proud to support and celebrate their work! Visit NoVA APT.
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June 2008: Jennifer Tucker Authors "Type and Project Management"
Inspired by ten years of applying psychological type and the MBTI with project teams, OKA's Consulting Director Jennifer Tucker has authored "Type and Project Management," part of the Introduction to Type series from CPP, Inc. Designed to connect the benefits of psychological type to the needs of project managers, this booklet contains practical guidance for recognizing how the eight preferences both help and hurt project efforts, and advice for getting and keeping projects on course using type insights. With checklists and mini-case studies spanning the 16 types, this booklet helps both project managers and type professionals lead their project teams towards greater success. Learn more and order.
June 2008: OKA Releases New MBTI Support Products
OKA has released several new type training support tools in Spring 2008, each designed to enhance individual and group use of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) assessment. First, check out our new MBTI® Slides, a new CD with professional and animated Power-Point presentations to support your MBTI and Temperament training and consulting efforts. Second, we have updated and expanded our MBTI and Temperament Workbooks, by Hile Rutledge. These popular books can be used independently, or side-by-side with our new slides and OKA's Type Videos. Finally, we announce a new self-guided training course on CD: Finding Balance in A Complex World. Led by Hile Rutledge, this 45-minute class discusses typological balance: what it is, and how to achieve it in yourself and with your clients.
June 2008: "Using Type Lenses" Workshop
OKA was pleased to complete a new collaboration with the Association for Psychological Type (APT) in June 2008. "Using Type Lenses in Leading Type" is an exciting new workshop illustrating how a number of two-letter type combinations, or type lenses, can be used to make psychological type accessible and actionable. Through group exercises, lecturettes, small group discussions and case studies, this experiential workshop explores a selection of type lenses and the individual or organizational issues that each best addresses. Due the success of this workshop, we will offer it again in 2009 - Come back late Fall for dates!
April 2008: Hile Rutledge Leads Teleconference for APT e-Chapter
Hile Rutledge, OKA Chief Executive Officer, conducted a teleconference for APT’s (Association for Psychological Type’s) e-Chapter on April 1, 2008. The topic was “Bridging the Gap Between Type and Temperament.” For years, there have been two opposing camps within the type community: Temperament advocates and Temperament opponents. As longtime supporters, authors, and trainers of both systems, OKA is in a unique position to offer a bridge between these too often opposing approaches. In this discussion, Hile covered the roots of this conflict, made arguments as to why the conflict is unnecessary, and gave intellectual legitimacy to Keirsey's Temperament model - while also making the case for the incompleteness of a purist Type approach.
March 2008: Hile Rutledge Part of OD Founder's Roundtable
On March 7, 2008, Hile Rutledge, OKA Chief Executive Officer, was proud to serve on the OD Founder's panel at Chesapeake Bay’s OD Network Spring Conference. Other noted speakers included Peter Block, Lennox Joseph, the Gallop Organization and Charlie and Eddie Seashore. Hile’s topic was: Contracting Nightmares: Structuring Successful Consulting and Training; he covered five contracting questions that must be answered and present on a consultant’s radar to ensure a successful engagement and a satisfied client.
February 2008: Jennifer Tucker Speaks at the DC Chapter of ASTD
Joining a panel of organization development and assessment professionals at the ASTD Washington DC Chapter February meeting, Jennifer Tucker participated in a lively discussion about different assessment instruments available to trainers and organization development professionals. Jenny's talk specifically focused on the newly released Klein Group Instrument (KGI) and the Pearson-Marr Archetype Indicator (PMAI), with some "bonus materials" on psychological type and Reversal Theory.
December 2007: What Type is Santa?
A reprise of a client favorite, this letter answers a very important holiday question from one of our students, What Type Is Santa Claus?!? Link to Santa Letter
December 2007: Hile Rutledge Speaks for Piedmont APT Chapter
Hile Rutledge, OKA Chief Executive Officer, served as an invited speaker at the Piedmont APT Winter Conference in December 2007. Speaking about "The Power of Type Dynamics," Hile's talk shared new and powerful ways to apply type both personally and with clients - cutting through the complexity of type theory, and turning it into a tool that is both understandable and applicable.
November 2007: Two Archived Webcasts Available from OKA
Two archived OKA webcasts are now available through our partner ULiveandLearn. Presented by Jennifer Tucker, OKA's Consulting Director, these webcasts include "Understanding and Diagnosing Teams and Organizations," a webcast that teaches OKA's Wrapped Cable Model; and "Managing Talent by Building Self-Awareness: Personality and Team Assessment Instruments," a webcast that previews five instruments used frequently by OKA. Each webcast is 1-1/2-hours in length. Link to ULiveandLearn to learn more and purchase the webcast archives.
October 2007: OKA Publishes Article on Motivation and Emotion
The November 2007 issue of CrossTalk Magazine, the Journal of Defense Software Engineering - read by thousands of people in the defense sector each month - included an article by Jennifer Tucker and Hile Rutledge. Entitled "Motivation and Emotion in Technology Teams," this article describes how Reversal Theory can be used to impact the motivational and emotional well-being of technology teams. It includes a summary of what Reversal Theory is, and how it can be used with teams. This is Jenny and Hile's third article for CrossTalk. Link to Article: PDF Version | HTML Version
August 2007: OKA Releases Consulting Skills CD!
OKA’s Consulting Skills class, previously offered as a public workshop, is now available as self-guided training at a low introductory price! In this class, OKA’s Consulting Director walks you through the critical steps involved in approaching new potential clients, identifying their needs, crafting a proposal, and effectively delivering on the work once won. This class comes on a CD-ROM, and combines audio, slides, and templates – for a complete resource you can refer to again and again. Read More.
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July 2007: Jennifer Tucker Speaks at Reversal Theory and Type Conferences
Jennifer Tucker, OKA Consulting Director, presented to both Reversal Theory audiences and Psychological Type audiences at conferences in July 2007. First, she traveled to Wales to discuss "Reversal Theory and the Motivational Dynamics of Scientific Data Sharing" at the 2007 International Reversal Theory Conference. The following week, she presented "Type and Project Management" for type enthusiasts at the APT International Conference in Baltimore, MD. While leveraging different theories and models, both presentations were born from the same passion: applying the complex dynamics of human personality to the very real challenges of today's world.
May 2007: OKA Publishes Reversal Theory Materials
Since 2002, OKA has been consulting and training with Reversal Theory, a ground-breaking approach to personality, motivation and emotion. Long researched and clinically analyzed, Reversal Theory is relatively new to the field of organizational change and development. As such, few established handouts, training procedures, and support materials have existed to make this theory accessible to most trainers, consultants and clients.
Reversing Forward: A Practical Guide to Reversal Theory changes that. This 76 page full-color fieldbook serves as both an introduction to Reversal Theory, and a structural guide to an interactive and actionable training session. Supporting the fieldbook, OKA's Reversal Theory PowerPoint slides offer a ready-to-go training tool for trainers/consultants who wish to deliver this exciting new tool. Qualification training is not required to purchase OKA's Reversal Theory materials.
Last Updated: 15 September 2008
