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The Natural Advantage
SessionHow to Lead and Perform
at Your Best
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What is the foundation of leading and performing at your best personally and for your team?
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Our Objectives today:
1. A clear definition of natural advantage2. Understanding your natural
advantage3. Understanding your organization’s
Kolbe Culture
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There are two flawed assumptions for success:•Each person can learn to be
competent in almost everything•Each person’s greatest room for
growth is in their weak areas
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The right assumptions for success:
• Each person’s talents are unique and enduring
• Each person’s greatest room for growth is in their strong areas
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AffectiveFeeling
CognitiveThinking
ConativeDoing
The three dimensions of the human mind:
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The Performance Process
Motivation
ReasonReason
ProductiveProductiveActionAction
AffectiveAffective ConativeConative CognitiveCognitive
WillWillInstinctsInstincts
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What is Kolbe?
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What is conation?
Conation is your natural striving instincts for taking action – your initiative.
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Conation is your knack for getting things done
Separate from your personality or your intelligence
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Our action mode stays constant throughout our lifetime
Explains the link between who you are and how you achieve
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Our action modes affect…..
• How we take initiative• The degree of effort we impart• The stress created environment• How synergy is created with others• How to target your energy
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Kolbe A Index Results
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Your Kolbe Action Modes
FactFinder Gathering and communicatinginformation
FollowThru Sorting and storing information
QuickStart Dealing with risks and unknowns
Implementor Handling space and tactile efforts
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Fact Finder
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Follow Thru
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Quick Start
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Implementor
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Summary of Strengths
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Summary of Strengths
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Summary of Natural Advantage
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Summary of Natural Advantage
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How Often Are we Wrong About Kolbe Results When we Guess?
Spouses – 85% of the timeBosses – 75% of the timeTeachers – 64% of the timeSelf – 50% of the time
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Where you are insistent, it explains a lot about you:
FF FT QS IM
Communication
In writing By Diagram By Talking By Showing
To Learn Something New
Read By Design By Trying It – Experiment
By Putting it Together
Organize Priority Alphabetical Colour By Quality
Time Management
Past Past/Present/ Future
Future Present
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One Word to Describe Each
Fact Finder – AnalyticalFollow Through – LogicalQuick Start – ImpulsiveImplementor – Tactile
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Questions to Take Action:
Fact Finder – Why?Follow Through – How?Quick Start – Where?Implementor – What?
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When Stressed out or Blocked, ask:Fact Finder – What’s Most Important
Follow Through – What does the end result look like?
Quick Start – What’s another way?
Implementor – How do we build it?
Mediators – What’s in in for everybody?
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Working using your natural advantage:
• Builds initiative• Builds Relationships• Builds ownership
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Application:
• Working individually• Working with others
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The foundation of a high-performing leadership team
is each person working naturally, individually and
together with their strengths