Using The Kolbe Index To Build Your Life and Business Coaching Confidence
Coaches use many different profiling tools, including the Kolbe Index, to kick-start their client’s awareness of themselves. I have also found them invaluable in determining how a client with a particular profile is best coached.
My personal experience has been with the Kolbe Index and the DISC system, but there are many others you might be familiar with and want to use.
I think the important thing is to choose a profile that is simple and easy for both you and the client to use. It should help the client understand how they operate boost their confidence in who they are.
The Kolbe™ Index If you are anything like me your ultimate vision is to have a life doing what you love, having fun and being and free from strain and tension, at work and in your personal relationships.
By discovering and appreciating how you operate most naturally, and how you operate under stress, life becomes far easier and happier. This applies just as much to coaching someone as being coached.
For myself, I found taking the Kolbe™ Index one of the most freeing and empowering things I have ever done and that is why it has become an important tool in facilitating a success path for my clients.
Once I know a client’s Kolbe profile, I know how best to coach them. Some clients need lots of information and structure before they get going. Others do not! They just want to get on with it and will find too much structure restricting. The Kolbe A result gives me the information I need.
How The Kolbe™ Index works Different from, yet complimentary to, assessment tools that measure your skills, personality or intelligence, Kolbe™ identifies your basic and instinctive mode of operation (MO)- how you naturally address tasks, goals and relationships when you are allowed to do it "Your Way".
Kolbe™ makes "Your Way" right for you. The online or printed debrief you receive after taking the index shows you how. By going with your natural instincts of how to get things done and adapting any given task to you, rather than you to the task, things get done better, quicker and easier.
How The Kolbe™ Index is different to other profiles Skills can be taught, personalities can change, but instincts, as measured by the Kolbe System are hardwired into every individual. The Kolbe System is based on our unchangeable instincts.
How The Kolbe™ Index applies to teams Kolbe™ also recognizes that people with different instinctive drives are needed if a powerful team is to be created.
The Kolbe™ Team Success process has been proved to be able to actually assess the balance of a team and its chance of achieving goals and outcomes.
The Kolbe™ Index has been set up to be completed entirely online. It is well worth doing the basic
Kolbe A Index
Download and read my article 'Basic Instincts' which delves even further into the value of this unique
Kolbe Profiling Tool
