New Two-Day Workshop on Generations and Personality Type

OKA just released this message regarding their upcoming workshop on Personality Type and Generations:

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Generations and Type Workshop - Now enrolling for September
Check out OKA's latest type offering

Some generational facts - and what they mean: Traditionalists (born between 1920 and 1945): About 50% of the men of this generation served in the armed forces at a time when the US military won a World War and defeated fascism. This group learned the lessons of this service well, and as a collective took these hierarchical, traditional, command-and-control systems and structures into the workplace, and they tend to establish and maintain these structures to this day. Baby Boomers (born between 1946 and 1964): A baby was born in the United States on average every 8 seconds for nearly 20 years - a birthrate not seen before or since in this culture. As a result, the 76 million members of this generation grew up in crowded families, schools, playgrounds and communities where social interaction skills, sharing, mediation, collaboration, competition and team work all become required for survival. These are skills that Boomers have brought with them into the workforce - paving the way for organization development and professional development - now standard features in most work places. Generation X (born between 1965 and 1980): Starting in the mid 1960s, and throughout the 1970s, a number of important things happened in US culture - among these were that the birthrate plummeted, the economy stalled, the divorce rate skyrocketed and dual-income or single-parent families became increasingly the norm. Originally termed the "Baby Bust" generation, members of Generation X were the first to grow up with these realities as the new standard. As a result, this group developed an independent, realistic, and at times cynical edge that questions authority, tends to be more open to change and skeptical of the benefits of organizational loyalty or promises of tomorrow. Millennials (born between 1981 and 2000): A tidal wave of Millennials (over 75 million) is entering and will be entering the workforce in the upcoming decade. This group is a collection of people who have never experienced a world without personal computers, the internet and technology-enhanced or enabled personal connections. This group is plugged in and paying constant, partial attention to everything, and they are about to benefit, change and stress your organization in ways that just ten years ago we would not have been able to imagine.

OKA now offers Generations and Type, a fast-paced two-day course that presents the generations model (drawn from extensive research) and then offers type as a vocabulary and structure to use in bridging gaps that exist in the understanding and values of the generations. Taught by Hile Rutledge and co-designed by Rita Murray and Hile Rutledge, Generations and Type will be offered September 24 and 25, 2009 at OKA's training center in Fairfax, Virginia. The class is supported by a new workbook, Generations, Bridging the Gap with Type, by Rita Murray and Hile Rutledge, an interactive piece designed to establish both the generations and type models and then knit the two together.

For information about, or to enroll in the upcoming class visit Generations and Type Workshop.

For information about, or to order the workbook visit Generations, Bridging the Gap with Type.