Natural Advantage Session -Part 1 - Oct.21.09
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The document discusses the Kolbe assessment tool which identifies individuals' natural strengths and advantages for taking initiative and achieving goals. It analyzes four main action modes - FactFinder, FollowThru, QuickStart, and Implementor - and how understanding one's natural strengths can help maximize performance both individually and as part of a team. Understanding one's Kolbe results helps leverage each person's unique talents and improves motivation, productivity, and synergy when working with others.
Natural Advantage Session -Part 1 - Oct.21.09
- 2. The Natural Advantage Session How to Lead and Perform at Your Best
- 3. What is the foundation of leading and performing at your best personally and for your team?
- 4. Our Objectives today: A clear definition of natural advantage Understanding your natural advantage Understanding your organization’s Kolbe Culture
- 5. 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
- 6. 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
- 7. The three dimensions of the human mind: Affective Feeling Cognitive Thinking Conative Doing
- 8. The Performance Process Motivation Reason Productive Action Affective Conative Cognitive Will Instincts
- 10. What is conation? Conation is your natural striving instincts for taking action – your initiative.
- 11. Conation is your knack for getting things done Separate from your personality or your intelligence
- 12. Our action mode stays constant throughout our lifetime Explains the link between who you are and how you achieve
- 13. 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
- 14. Kolbe A Index Results
- 15. Your Kolbe Action Modes FactFinder Gathering and communicating information FollowThru Sorting and storing information QuickStart Dealing with risks and unknowns Implementor Handling space and tactile efforts
- 16. Fact Finder
- 17. Follow Thru
- 18. Quick Start
- 19. Implementor
- 22. Summary of Natural Advantage
- 23. Summary of Natural Advantage
- 24. How Often Are we Wrong About Kolbe Results When we Guess? Spouses – 85% of the time Bosses – 75% of the time Teachers – 64% of the time Self – 50% of the time
- 25. 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
- 26. One Word to Describe Each Fact Finder – Analytical Follow Through – Logical Quick Start – Impulsive Implementor – Tactile
- 27. Questions to Take Action: Fact Finder – Why? Follow Through – How? Quick Start – Where? Implementor – What?
- 28. 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?
- 30. Working using your natural advantage: Builds initiative Builds Relationships Builds ownership
- 31. Application: Working individually Working with others
- 32. The foundation of a high-performing leadership team is each person working naturally, individually and together with their strengths