Performance tips

Below are some random tips and insights that we thought you might enjoy. Like Hodge podge soup, they are an eclectic mix of different tastes and sources. But they sure hit the spot.

B2B Magazine - Break the Performance Barrier

Most companies spend their time and resources training employees to do what they won't do. There is a low rate of return on this strategy. A far better strategy is to identify what people will do and are willing to do and then make sure they spend at least 80% of their time doing those things. Imagine what the outcome of this practical approach could be!

  • Identify the talent on your team
  • Commit to maximizing opportunities for growth and development that expands a person's natural talents
  • Clearly communicate and discuss the requirements of each person's role, how their role fits with the overall organizational purpose, and the personal actions that are required to achieve that overall purpose
  • Identify any gaps between how a person will instinctively operate and the demands of their role
  • Provide tools, aids, or other access to other team member' talents when actions are required that go against their natural talents
  • Provide promotions and career opportunities that mirror their natural talents

Taken from "Putting Kolbe in Your Toolbox"

Many of our customers who have been using the Kolbe tools for years to identify instinctual talent and utilize it to its fullest, realize they are light years ahead of their competition.

"With awareness and attention finally focusing on discovering individual talents and casting people accordingly, there is a possibility that Maslow's theories will now play out. Maslow believed that people actualize in different ways based on their instinctual makeup, and that those differences must be identified, supported and encouraged. And, when this identification, support and encouragement are happening, then true synergy within organizations will occur. Maybe, just maybe this will be the decade that his inspiring vision from the 60s will finally become a global reality."