Organizational Development Videos, Human Resource Videos

For Everyone

“I Opt” Advanced Leader Report Orientation ~ 9 MIN

This movie reviews the report that shows how “I Opt” styles and patterns create themes, strengths and vulnerabilities. Relations with individuals, groups and superiors are covered.

Keywords: ”I Opt“, leader, leadership, styles, patterns, strategies, strengths, vulnerabilities, themes, learning, executive, individual, group, team

“I Opt” LeaderAnalysis™ Orientation ~ 17 MIN

This is an introduction to the “I Opt” Leader Analysis report. The report analyzes the leader in the context of the specific group of people being led. This movie offers extensive explanations of analytical technique as well as the construction of the various supporting graphics.

Keywords: “I Opt”, leader, leadership, styles, patterns, strategies, strengths, vulnerabilities, coalitions, executive, manager, staff, decisions, corporate, team dynamics, individual, group, majority, consensus, pinwheel, leader pull, compatibility, cross compatibility matrix, communication, team size.

“I Opt” Coaching Report used for Self-Study ~ 10 MIN

This movie shows how the Coaching Report can be used as a self-study tool. It shows how the Coaching Report ties into the Advanced Leader Report on a page-by-page basis.

Keywords: “I Opt”, Socratic Method, leader, leadership, styles, patterns, strategy, strengths, vulnerabilities, themes, learning, executive, individual, group, team

“I Opt” TeamAnalysis™ Orientation ~ 10 MIN

This movie walks the viewer through each of the three sections of the “I Opt” TeamAnalysis Report. It shows how the viewer can use the report and “I Opt” technology to improve team performance.

Keywords: “I Opt” strategic style, strategic pattern, strategic profile, strengths, vulnerabilities, leadership, team dynamics, individual, group, team personality, majority, consensus

“I Opt” Individual Report Orientation ~ 8:30 min

This movie explains the basis of ‘I Opt” technology in simplified form. It then provides a page by page explanation of the report contents.

Keywords: ‘I Opt” s trategic Style, explanation, theory, teams, learning, application, guidance, teams, learning

Social Intelligence “I Opt” Emotional Impact Management Report — 9:40 MIN

This movie describes how the emotional responses of others can be predicted and managed using “I Opt” strategic style technology. Both short and long-term emotional relationships are addressed

Keywords: “I Opt” strategic patterns, social intelligence, emotional intelligence, emotions, feelings, leadership, emotional cascades, attribution, mirror strategy, mirroring

“I Opt” Sales Report ~ 10min

This movie shows how “I Opt” technology can be used to improve sales performance. The integration of sales with other staffs is addressed as are self-management issues for the individual sales person

Keywords: Sales, sales training, ÒI OptÓ strategic styles, strategic patterns, test, assessment, support staffs, product knowledge, prospecting, presentation, closing , referrals, telemarketing, goals, selling, sales profile

“I Opt” Career Report Orientation ~ 6 min

This movie shows how “I Opt” technology can be used to identify and leverage natural strengths into long-term career success.

Keywords: “I Opt” strategic style, strengths, exposures, guidance, career navigation, elevator pitch, success formula, favorable positions, teams

“I Opt” Strategic Styles and Patterns ~ 8:30 min

This movie explains how styles and patterns work together to set both short and long term decision making behavior. Common experiences are used to illustrate concepts.

Keywords: ‘I Opt” strategic styles, strategic patterns, ‘I Opt” Grid, measurement, short & long run, decision behavior.

For Professionals

“I Opt” Split Style Exlplained ~ 10 min

The Split Style profile occurs infrequently and involves the display of apparantly contradictory behaviors. This evidence-based video explains the implications of this profile to both the person holding it and the people with whom they interact.

Keywords: “I Opt”, split styles, team, coordination, prediction, transparency, attribution, advantages, types, frequency, intensity.

Creating Resume Content using “I Opt” Technology ~ 20 min

This video shows how the Career Report can be used to identify and develop the qualities, capacities, accomplishments and other material that combine to create compelling resume content. The video takes the viewer step-by-step through the process.

Keywords: “I Opt”, resume, chronological, functional, technical, core competencies, specifics, cpability summary, formats, career navigation.

“I Opt” Free Emotion Training Program ~ 6 min

This movie describes the content of a 66-slide PowerPoint training program available free from iopt.com. The slides have full text annotation and audio narration (in the notes section). Exercises and discussion topics are included.

Keywords: Emotional Intelligence, Social Intelligence, mirror neurons, emotions, feelings, cascades, strategic styles, patterns, long-term, short-term, stress responses, culture, management, strategies, attributions, executive

“I Opt” Technology vs. Psychological Assessents ~ 9 min

This movie explains how ‘I Opt” differs from the various psychological tests available.

Keywords: MBTI, Myers-Briggs, scope vs depth, durability, style names, reports, field experience

“I Opt” Validation Summary ~ 9 min

This movie summarizes the “I Opt” Validation Study in easily accessible language. It summarizes each of the 8 validity tests (plus reliability) and shows how these tests work together to create high confidence in “I Opt” technology.

Keywords: Validity, content validity, construct validity, face validity, predictive validity, concurrent validity, discriminant validity, convergent validity, conclusion validity, reliability, theoretical integrity, individual validation, group validation

Setting your Optimal Team Size with I Opt ~ 5 min

How to set your optimal team size with i-opt and organizational engineering.

Keywords:Team building, team size, transaction, cost, channels, Organization Development, bureaucracy, exponential, cost

Organizational Engineering -Leadership, Diversity, and the Goldilocks Zone ~ 15 min

This movie shows why teams offer an advantage for certain kinds of problems. It also shows why there is an inescapable decline in performance as team size increases over defined limits.

Keywords:Team building, ”I Opt“ team size, leadership, thought diversity, information processing, Measurement, organizational Engineering

“I Opt” and Communications ~ 10 minutes

The “why” and “how” of communication are explained in practical terms. It shows how a universal process will behave differently when using different channels. You learn about the many buttons you can push to get your message across.

Keywords. Communication, “I Opt”, transaction channel, communications channel, failure paths

Applying “I Opt” for Communications Success ~10 minutes

This video outlines how to use a mini-system of three ”I Opt“ tools. They offer varying levels of precision and apply to both individuals and groups. All are available free to certified individuals and established client firms.

Keywords. Communication, ”I Opt“, Snowflakes, ”I Opt“ Card deck, tools, goal directed strategies, consensus, majority

”I Opt“ and the Kolb Model ~10 minutes

How to use ”I Opt“ in learning is explained and illustrated. It’s relationship to and compatibility to (not identity with) the Kolb Learning Model is outlined.

Keywords. Learning, ”I Opt“, Organizational Engineering, Kolb Learning Model, classroom, instructor alignment, comparison

For Scholars

“I Opt” Gender in the Executive Suite ~ 9 min

This movie outlines "I Opt" research into whether executive men and women differ in the way they make decisions. It explains in easily understood, but technically accurate terms the basis and the findings of the study. It also demonstrates how “I Opt” can be used to address major policy and social issues.

Keywords: "I Opt", leader, leadership, styles, strategies, executive, Vice President, Director, Manager, decisions, Mann-Whitney, men, women, males, females, sample size, glass ceiling, gender differences

Setting your Optimal Team Size with I Opt ~ 5 min
(Also appears in "For Professionals section")

This is the first of a two-part series. This part demonstrates that human biology sets the limits of team size. It draws on a large sample of teams to demonstrate that the theoretical limits are empirically verified in practice.

Keywords:Team building, team size, transaction, cost, channels, Organization Development, bureaucracy, exponential, cost

Why There is an Optimal Team Size ~ 14 min
(Also appears in "For Professionals section")

This is the second of the two-part series. This shows that diversity sets the "benefit" side of the team size equation. The video then shows how diversity benefit interacts with transaction channel cost (see Optimal Team Size video). The result is a cost/benefit ratio that explains why the "Goldilocks Zone" exists.