The 6 Key Ways We Help Individuals & Teams Advance Productivity
I get this question a lot.
“What exactly do you do?”
And since we’re a consultancy, the answer typically starts with, “well, that depends.”
So, in an effort to simplify the story of The Instinctive Advantage, I wanted to take a moment to highlight our areas of expertise. At the core, we believe instincts hold great influence over a team's effectiveness, it's employee's satisfaction, and the organization's overall retention of people. So, by specializing in coaching on instincts, we’re able to help individuals and teams acknowledge, understand, and utilize these instincts to increase their overall productivity.
With this in mind, we’d like to highlight the 6 key ways we help our clients become more productive.
How we work with individuals
Helping individuals understand themselves
As we mentioned above, we believe our instincts hold great influence over our lives. Because of this, we help individuals identify their own instincts, providing insights in a few specific areas. These areas, defined by Kolbe Wisdom™ include:
Fact Finder: How you gather & share information
Follow Thru: How you organize
Quick Start: How you deal with risk & uncertainty
Implementor: How you handle space & tangibles
Helping individuals understand how their instincts impact their job/role
Our instincts obviously impact our relationships and home life, but they also affect our careers. Thus, we help individuals understand how their instincts fit within their current job/role; we also help individuals assess what the right job/role would be for their unique instinctual advantage.
How we work with teams
Identifying how managers think their employees should perform in their job/role
Have you ever wondered why an employee would do something a certain way (maybe a way you never would do it)? In many cases, this is due to the leader’s instincts being different than those of the individuals on their team. With this in mind, we help managers understand why and how they think their employees should perform, providing insights and strategies on how they can lead more effectively by simply understanding their own instinctual expectations better.
Creating synergy with employees, management, and the roles involved
It’s obvious that employees and managers can each have very different instincts. In some cases this can cause tension or ineffectiveness, especially with larger teams. So, our team engages with both parties to ensure each employee’s instincts align with how they are performing their job; and that they also align with how their manager thinks they should be doing the job. This synergy creates a more productive work environment and team.
Helping teams hire the right person in the right seat
Not every instinct is a fit within your team’s environment. So, we help managers make qualified hiring decisions based on the instincts of the hiree, the expectations of the management, and the reality of the culture. This ensures that organizations hire the right person in the right seat.
Identifying how two people work together
In many workplaces, two individuals need to be working in close proximity. With this in mind, our team provides insights and tips to optimize the group's collaborative efforts instead of wasting time and energy with disagreements, communication issues, and redundant work efforts. This helps both parties be more productive together.
For each of the 6 key ways we help individuals and teams become more productive we utilize the Kolbe Wisdom™. Its resources are foundational to our approach and continue to aid in our efforts to increase productivity for our clients.
If you’d like to talk more about any of the ways we help you or your team, please feel free to reach out.
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