The Kolbe Method allows you to maximize organizational performance by freeing people to utilize their instinctive talent and harnessing that talent in synergistic ways to drive productivity. With Kolbe’s unique assortment of software, training, and coaching services, you will be able to

• discover employees’ natural or instinctive ways of taking action
• redirect talent where required and leverage underutilized talent
• increase team members’ performance capabilities and better align expectations for a specific job.
• understand how those abilities apply to team participation
• identifying candidates who match the ideal profile to replicate top performers 
• optimize the deployment, effectiveness and retention of more satisfied, productive employees
• select the right people for the right job
• reduce stress in the work environment
• provide the highest probability for team success and the overall effectiveness of your organization.
• develop effective, objective organizational development strategies to achieve your team or company goals.

The Benefits of Kolbe
Assessment tools have historically focused on measuring the cognitive (IQ) and the affective (personality) parts of the mind. While these tools are helpful in selecting, training, and managing people, something has been missing. IQ scores are influenced by opportunities to learn and being smart doesn’t necessarily predict success. Personality traits are situational and people who get along don’t always do a job successfully or accomplish the team’s goals.


What’s missing? The third part of the mind - the conative, or instinctive, part.
Human instinct is the power behind our actions. It’s the source of our mental energy. Understanding how instincts combine with intelligence and personality will help you optimize the hiring, deployment, retention, and effectiveness of your employees. Assessing and understanding the instinctive methods of all of your employees will create a less stressful work environment where employees are more satisfied and more productive in their positions. The Kolbe Method does this.

The Kolbe A™ Index
Determine the resident talents within your organization using the Kolbe A™ Index  which measures an individual’s instinctive or natural strengths. It describes the natural way each person takes action in four distinct modalities or Action Modes. The Kolbe A results give employees a language with which to describe these strengths and a method to communicate with others more effectively.

Overview
The four Kolbe Action Modes are summarized in the box below. The corresponding number from 1 to 10 on the Index determines an individual’s MO (Mode of Operation or Modus Operandi).

Kolbe Action Modes®

Zones of Operation

Each Action Mode is displayed across three Zones of Operation:

1. • Prevent (1 to 3 on the index): how you won’t act or how you will prevent problems
2. • Respond (4 to 6): how you are willing to act or respond to opportunities

• Initiate (7 to 10): how you will act or initiate solutions
People are often referred to by their MO numbers. For example, “Susie’s a 7653” means that she initiates in Fact Finder (7), responds in Follow Thru (6) and Quick Start (5), and prevents in Implementor (3).

An Operating Zone indicates the perspective through which a person naturally uses a mode – how you make the best use of a mode

Paths to Success™
The Kolbe Paths to Success are the 12 ways we approach problem-solving determined by our MOs. Although we can solve problems using any of the 12 methods, each of us has four — one in each Action Mode — that allows us to do our best, most efficient, creative work. We will instinctively begin the creative problem-solving process using our most insistent mode of initiation.

Additional Indexes - Kolbe B™ and Kolbe C™
Two additional tools to help increase your employees’ performance capabilities and better align expectations and requirements for a specific job. These indexes, when compared to the Kolbe A, measure the gaps within your organization. They help you solve problems and provide solutions for emerging issues.

The Kolbe B Index measures the employee’s own expectations about fulfilling his/her job. A significant difference between the expectations in the Kolbe B and the reality of the Kolbe A identifies a stress point or strain.

Reports
Kolbe Organizational Analysis™ and Leadership Reports offer the highly-quantifiable, diagnostic information you need to maximize the effectiveness of any work group. These reports assess team synergy and effectiveness and identify areas of individual and team stress in the organization. Processed through the Kolbe WAREwithal online software system, prescriptive advice is presented in a series of reports, including

Spreadsheet of Strengths™
Spreadsheet of Strengths is an at-a-glance reference of the organization’s available talent. It lists all of your team members and their Kolbe results.

Team Synergy Report™
Synergy results from instinctive diversity. Groups with optimal synergy have proven as much as 225% more productive! Let Kolbe help you measure your team’s synergy and give you prescriptions for improving your team’s probability of success.

Inertia Analysis™
Just as inertia in the physical world inhibits forward momentum, mental inertia bogs down a team’s efforts. The Inertia Analysis will identify reduced productivity causes by evaluating the amount of energy within Action Modes.

Leadership Bottom Line
This report predicts the team’s viability and projects its probability of success

Your Complete Management View
Once you have discovered your employees’ innate abilities, you can take the information and apply it to successful team building. Achieving a diverse mix of instinctive talent on your team will do more to help you meet your organization’s goals than almost any other factor. Having this diversity, or synergy, means the product of the team’s combined efforts will be more significant than the individual members’ efforts alone.
                                                                                
Kolbe TeamSuccess™ Seminar

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