Jim flew helicopters for a living for 57 years, 27 of them as a military pilot and 30 more as a civilian air rescue pilot running emergency medical, search and rescue, and law enforcement missions. Every one of those flights ran on the same rule: if an order came down and it was not clear to him, he had to dig in and find his own answers. He is retired now, living on the road in a 41 foot motorhome with a car towed behind it, and the outside pressure that used to force every decision is gone. So what happens to a man built to dig in when nobody is setting his deadlines anymore?
In this Private Session, David Kolbe (CEO of Kolbe Corp) reads Jim's Kolbe A™ Index result out loud for the first time. He starts with Jim's Natural Advantage™, Hands-On Hero, then breaks down the full result one Action Mode® at a time. By the end, the procrastination Jim came in worried about looks less like a discipline problem and more like an 8 in Fact Finder with nothing left to stop it.
Jim's Natural Advantage™: Hands-On Hero.
Jim's full Kolbe A™ Index result:
8 in Fact Finder
6 in Follow Thru
1 in Quick Start
7 in Implementor
This session breaks down what each number means, why fixed-wing pilots cluster exactly where Jim does, and why the checklist that ran his career is the one tool he needs to rebuild now that it is gone.
Curious about yours? Discover your Natural Advantage™, then unlock your full Kolbe A™ Index result: https://linktr.ee/naturaladvantage
CHAPTERS:
00:00 You Need to Build It, Touch It, Construct It
00:45 Natural Advantage™: Hands-On Hero
02:48 Fact Finder: The 8 (Has to Be the Expert, Redoes the Research)
04:20 Quick Start: The 1 (Find What Works, Stay With It)
10:30 Implementor: The 7 (Every Repair on a 41 Foot Coach)
18:00 Follow Thru: The 6 (Lives Inside a Plan, Does Not Build It)
22:56 Redoing the Research She Already Did (Not a Trust Problem)
29:33 Working With the Way You're Wired
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
- What a Natural Advantage is (and how it's just one piece of your full result)
- How your full Kolbe A Index result reveals strengths across all four Action Modes (Fact Finder, Follow Thru, Quick Start, Implementor)
- Why an 8 in Fact Finder redoes research somebody has already done, and why that is not a trust problem
- What happens to a 1 in Quick Start when retirement takes away the outside deadline
ABOUT KOLBE
Kolbe measures how you naturally take action, your conative instincts. It's not personality. It's not IQ. Every Private Session follows the same path: the guest's Natural Advantage™ first, then their full Kolbe A™ Index result, one Action Mode® at a time. You see yourself in someone else's session before you ever take the assessment.
Discover your Natural Advantage™ and unlock your full Kolbe A™ Index result: https://linktr.ee/naturaladvantage
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