About Reversal Theory:
Motivation in Action
How do you foster a healthy concern for deadlines, without the stress and anxiety that accompany them? How do you motivate everyone to follow rules and procedures, and encourage innovation? Balancing, even encouraging, conflicting needs demands an understanding of motivational states and how to work within them.
Reversal Theory provides this understanding. A practical, yet well-researched theory of motivation and emotion, Reversal Theory focuses of the variability and changeability of motives in response to the meaning that a person attaches to a given situation.
OKA has been teaching and using Reversal Theory with clients since 2002. Now, we offer a variety of resources to introduce this tool to you, and to prepare you to use it for yourself and with your groups.
OKA's Reversal Theory Training Site. This "Motivation in Action" website is a free resource for learning about Reversal Theory, with audio-slide shows, sample videos accompanied by Reversal Theory analysis, and excerpts from OKA's Reversing Forward Fieldbook. Link to Reversal Theory Training Site
Learn How to Use Reversal Theory. OKA offers a self-guided Reversal Theory Skillshop Web-Based Training program to teach trainers and consultants how to use Reversal Theory with clients. Build on your understanding of Reversal Theory, so you can use the tool with leaders and teams! Link to Reversal Theory Skillshop
Motivation and Emotion in Technology Teams. This article, published in the November 2007 issue of CrossTalk Magazine, the Journal of Defense Software Engineering, 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. Link to Article: (PDF Version) (HTML Version)
Connecting Reversal Theory and Psychological Type. OKA is frequently asked how the instruments we use relate to one another. This research was conducted by OKA to look at the relationships between the preferences of psychological type and the states of Reversal Theory. (Link to Fact Sheet) (Link to Research Paper)
Order OKA's Reversal Theory Fieldbook. OKA's Reversing Forward: A Practical Guide to Reversal Theory is designed specifically to make Reversal Theory accessible to most trainers, consultants and clients. This 76 page full-color fieldbook serves as 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. The slides are included in OKA's Reversal Theory Skillshop.
