Systems We Love: The Kolbe Profile
Dan Sullivan
Founder of Strategic Coach | Entrepreneurial Coach | Speaker | 10x Thinker | 50x Published Author
I’m a big proponent of strategic alliances. On a personal level, they help me stay within my?Unique Ability , and on an organizational level, they give us access to extremely valuable skills without having to create them from scratch ourselves.
One of the best strategic alliances we’ve made at Strategic Coach is with the Kolbe Corporation. Kathy Kolbe is a genius who’s created a marvelous system for measuring how individuals take action when left free to be themselves.
The day I got my Kolbe results will always stand out in my mind as one of the most powerful days of my life, because that profile suddenly explained where all the troubles in my life and my business came from.
I knew from experience ?that when I stayed within a small circle of activities, I was always most productive, energized, and successful. Yet, I always?felt compelled to try to be good at things outside that circle. ?Kolbe gave me permission to let myself live entirely within my small circle — and for more than 30 years, that’s what I’ve done.
My own particular profile explained why:
We’re often pressured — particularly in school — to work hard to improve on our weaknesses. But that just gives us strong weaknesses.?Why not play to your strengths? ?Systems like Kolbe and Unique Ability stop you from trying to change into someone else and let you be the person you are by nature.
Since the early 1990s, every entrepreneur who’s participated in the Strategic Coach Program has completed the Kolbe index and received their profile, and the vast majority are so taken with the system that they go on to use it with their teams — and their families too. Within Strategic Coach, we don’t hire anyone unless their Kolbe profile corresponds to the role we’re hiring them for. This avoids a tremendous amount of stress and missed expectations, and gives us the advantage of having a lot of gut-instinct wisdom at work within our organization.
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We have a total commitment to?helping people identify, articulate, and use their Unique Ability , and I believe Kolbe does the quickest job of getting you into the right place to start that inquiry — and takes away a lot of the complexity. That’s why we love it.
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Dan
If you want to understand yourself better or build a Self-Managing Company, take a look at?Kolbe .
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2 年Dan Sullivan have never heard of this test - will have to check it out. thank you for sharing
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2 年Kolbe is my favorite hiring tool. I find it so practical and when I hire with it I find the best team members for the role.
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2 年For some reason, Kolbe is the best kept secret in personal understanding. It should be ranked along side the best assessments that management books laud. The important point is that it does not measure personality. It measures something different. It measures the conative mind. Simply said, it measures your natural instincts. When I took the A Index over 20 years ago I cried. Just like Dan Sullivan, it explained me in ways I had never understood. Bravo to Kolbe Wisdom.
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2 年The only thing I write down before I meet someone is their name and their Kolbe score.
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2 年Dan Sullivan The day I got my ‘second’ Kolbe results will always stand out in my mind… as one of the most powerful days of my life, because that profile explained to me that I am who I am. You see, I took the Kolbe earlier on in my life and received my results. And then I had a traumatic an life altering event occur. After I took some time and got myself back together I retook the Kolbe because I was curious if anything that I had gone through would have changed my results. But I received the same score, the same results and it showed me that I am who I am and nothing will change that. My #Kolbe is 6-6-3-6 Thanks for sharing this post Dan Sullivan!