1. www.bluteaudevenney.com

2. The Natural Advantage Session How to Lead and Perform at Your Best

3. What is the foundation of leading and performing at your best personally and for your team?

4. Our Objectives today:

7. The three dimensions of the human mind:

8. The Performance Process Productive Action Motivation Reason Instincts Will Affective Cognitive Conative

9. What is Kolbe?

10. What is conation? Conation is your natural striving instincts for taking action – your initiative.

11. Conation is your knack forgetting things done Separate from your personality or your intelligence

12. Our action mode stays constant throughout our lifetime Explains the link between who you are and how you achieve

13. 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

14. Kolbe A Index Results

15. Your Kolbe Action Modes

16. Fact Finder

17. FollowThru

18. Quick Start

19. Implementor

20. Individual Profiles

21. Corinne Larkin

22. Kacy Huang

23. Jan Blades

24. Sarah Atkinson

25. Matthew MacInnis

26. Jeremy Bast

27. John Lawrence

28. Matthew Mahoney

29. Myles Wood

30. Summary of Strengths

31. Summary of Strengths

32. Summary of Natural Advantage

33. Summary of Natural Advantage

34. Exercise Three

35. How Often Are we Wrong About Kolbe Results When we Guess? Spouses – 85% of the time Bosses – 75% of the time Teachers – 64% of the time Self – 50% of the time

36. Where you are insistent, it explains a lot about you:

38. Ideal Candidate McCain Obama

39. Natural Fit of Each Candidate 80% Fit 85% Fit

40. What Profile do you think would be a natural leader on a deserted island.

41. 2.What Profile do you think would make a better athlete?

42. 3.What Profile do you think would make a better surgeon?

43. 4.If you wanted to change dinner plans (restaurants), how would you go about doing this: a) Fact Finder – b) Follow Through – c) QuickStart – d) Implementor -

44. Break Into 3 Groups 1)Dealing with Change – How Do you Approach People 2) Setting Up a Meeting 3) Delegating

45. Applying Kolbe 1) Communication 2) Leadership

46. One Word to Describe Each Fact Finder– Analytical Follow Through– Logical Quick Start– Impulsive Implementor – Tactile

47. Questions to Take Action: Fact Finder– Why? Follow Through– How? Quick Start– Where? Implementor – What?

48. 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?

49. How Would You Present an Idea to: 8724 4292 6841

50. Is it best to work with people who are conatively like you?

51. The foundation of a high-performing leadership team is each person working naturally, individually and together with their strengths

52. Working using your natural advantage: Builds initiative Builds Relationships Builds ownership

53. Case Study – Harvard Business Review “Gen Y in the Workforce”

54. The 3 x 3 Goal Planner

55. Thank you!