The Kolbe Index™
Have you ever wondered why two successful people approach the same job differently? Boomer Consulting, Inc. offers the Kolbe Index ™ — a unique and exciting tool that provides firms with the power to build on each employee's natural strengths while assisting with some of the most difficult HR Challenges. The Kolbe Index™ will help your firm:
- Identify individuals’ instinctive strengths and abilities
- Ensure the right person is in the right job and/or the right team
- Improve communication and job satisfaction
- Pinpoint areas of stress in the organization and prescribe solutions
- Reduce conflict, strain, and tension in the workplace
- Enhance your competitive advantage by capitalizing on people’s innate strengths
- Provide the information necessary to predict and maximizing performance
- Improve team synergy to ensure long-term viability
- Maximize your employees’ Return on Effort
- Reduce selection costs while increasing your “hit” rate
Background
Developed by Kolbe Corp in Scottsdale Arizona, Boomer uses the tools that have been developed as a method for assessing and accessing 12 basic approaches to creative problem solving. Every human being is endowed with a set of creative instincts – the hard-wired part of us that makes us who we are. Understanding these natural attributes helps focus energy on what we do best. Each person contributes four of these natural abilities. The goal is to seek out people who complement each other through different combinations of creative problem solving methods.
Boomer provides the tools developed by Kolbe Corp to inventory the available and needed creative energy on project teams. Sandra Wiley, a certified Kolbe Certified Consultant, will coach leaders so they can “better their best” through building and managing teams with the synergy that results from the right combination of differing creative instincts. These products and services will allow you to shift people and resources to their most effective use as you move through the corporate decision-making cycle.
Identifying Instincts
The Kolbe Index™ allows you to discover individuals’ striving instincts and the actions they take because of them. Now you can know in advance what actions you can expect from your employees, how they will perform in teams and where they will be most effective in your organization. These instincts are identified through an easy-to-understand internet-based, 36-question index called the Kolbe A™ index. There are three separate indexes (Kolbe B™ and C™ indexes have 24 questions) that provide the foundation data for all Kolbe performance forecasting.
- Kolbe A Index™ --- validates an individual’s natural strengths and most effective contributions
- Kolbe B Index™ --- defines the individual’s self-expectations of job performance
- Kolbe C Index™ --- defines a manager’s requirements for a specific job
By comparing the Kolbe A™ and B™ indexes, employees can discover the sources of strain between their innate strengths and their expectations of a job. By comparing the Kolbe A™ and C™ indexes, employers can forecast an employee’s productivity by measuring the tension between a person’s innate strengths and the requirements of a job.
Improving Team Performance
Once you have discovered your employees’ innate abilities, how can you take that information and apply it to successful team building? Kolbe TeamSuccess® Seminars are dynamic, full-or-half day sessions that provide an interactive way to explore the workings of specific teams within your organization. The seminar will:
- Inventory the instinctive talents that make up your actual - not just desired - culture
- Leverage these talents so team members consistently and effectively work together
- Incorporate diagnostic and prescriptive information to accelerate team productivity
- Provide tools to improve communication and clarify commitment levels
Results
A customized set of 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 these reports which are given to Management for use after the seminar.
Sandra Wiley is the Kolbe Consultant for Boomer Consulting and she will spend time with the firm ownership group reviewing the Leadership reports and identifying areas needing improvements. This will include identifying challenges with team dynamics and offering prescriptive advice on required action.