Natural Advantage Session -Part 1 - Oct.21.09

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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 advantage2. Understanding your natural

advantage3. Understanding your organization’s

Kolbe Culture


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


AffectiveFeeling

CognitiveThinking

ConativeDoing

The three dimensions of the human mind:


The Performance Process

Motivation

ReasonReason

ProductiveProductiveActionAction

AffectiveAffective ConativeConative CognitiveCognitive

WillWillInstinctsInstincts


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


Kolbe A Index Results


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


Fact Finder


Follow Thru


Quick Start


Implementor


Summary of Strengths


Summary of Strengths


Summary of Natural Advantage


Summary of Natural Advantage


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


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?



Working using your natural advantage:

• Builds initiative• Builds Relationships• Builds ownership


Application:

• Working individually• Working with others


The foundation of a high-performing leadership team

is each person working naturally, individually and

together with their strengths

Business

Natural Advantage Session -Part 1 - Oct.21.09