Friday Session Kolbe presentation

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The Natural Advantage

SessionHow to Lead and Perform

at Your Best


What is the foundation of leading and performing at your best personally and for your team?


Our Objectives today:

1. A clear definition of natural advantage

2. Understanding your natural advantage

3. Understanding how to Communicate & Lead Effectively


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


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


The three dimensions of the human mind:

Affective“Feeling”

Cognitive

“Thinking”

Conative

“Doing”


The Performance Process

Motivation Motivation

Reason

ProductiveAction

Affective Conative Cognitive

WillInstinctsInstincts


What is Kolbe?


What is conation?

Conation is your natural striving instincts for taking action – your initiative.


Conation is your knack for getting things done

Separate from your personality or your intelligence


Our action mode stays constant throughout our lifetime

Explains the link between who you are and how you achieve


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


Your Kolbe Action Modes

•Gathering and communicating information

FactFinder•Sort

ing and storing information

FollowThru

•Dealing with risks and unknowns

QuickStart

•Handling space and tactile efforts

Implementor


Fact Finder


Follow Thru


Quick Start


Implementor


Individual Profiles


Corinne Larkin


Kacy Huang


Jan Blades


Sarah Atkinson


Matthew MacInnis


Jeremy Bast


John Lawrence


Matthew Mahoney


Myles Wood


Summary of Strengths


Summary of Natural Advantage


Exercise Three

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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


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


McCain

Ideal Candidat

e

Obama


Natural Fit of Each Candidate

80% Fit

85% Fit


1. What Profile do you think would be a natural leader on a deserted island.


2. What Profile do you think would make a better athlete?


3. What Profile do you think would make a better surgeon?


4. If you wanted to change dinner plans (restaurants), how would you go about doing this:

a) Fact Finder – b) Follow Through – c) QuickStart – d) Implementor -


Break Into 3 Groups1)Dealing with Change – How Do you Approach

People2) Setting Up a Meeting3) Delegating


Applying Kolbe

1) Communication2) Leadership


One Word to Describe Each

Fact Finder – AnalyticalFollow Through – LogicalQuick Start – ImpulsiveImplementor – Tactile


Questions to Take Action:

Fact Finder – Why?Follow Through – How?Quick Start – Where?Implementor – What?


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?


How Would You Present an Idea to:

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Is it best to work with people who

are conatively like you?


The foundation of a high-performing leadership team is each person working naturally, individually and together with

their strengths


Working using your natural advantage:

Builds initiative Builds Relationships Builds ownership


Case Study – Harvard Business Review

“Gen Y in the Workforce”


The 3 x 3

Goal Planner


Thank you!

Friday Session Kolbe presentation

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