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Late Shoppers: We Know Who You Are
You haven't even started to shop yet. There's still
plenty of time and usually gut instinct kicks in and bails
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Greetings!
The closer we get to year end, the more time
compresses. Our challenge is to maintain perspective.
As much as we hurry to close one more deal before
shutting down for the holidays, let's make time to reach
out to someone who needs a hand, a kind word or
some holiday spirit. 'Tis the Season.
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Quote of the Month
"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they
make as they fly by."
- Douglas Adams, humoristic novelist and author of
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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Questions for Kathy Kolbe
Question: You've identified four
Action Modes® that you say determine a person's
MO. Couldn't our modus operandi just be the way we've
been taught to act?
Answer: Learned behavior is
something you will try when you have time to think
about it. In a crisis, it's been shown that we all revert
to instincts. Learned behavior is not an MO, but
acquired knowledge of what you could or should do -
according to whoever taught you.
Since we keep acquiring knowledge (from experience
and more formal learning as well), our ideas about
what's smart to do often change. Your MO is
predictable because it is ingrained. It is the one
constant in your life. In fact, it's the only thing about
you that you can count on to always be the same - no
matter what job you're in, what courses you take, or
who tries to convince you it's the wrong approach.
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The Market Has Turned
A big developing problem for business may soon
represent a market opportunity for Kolbe consultants.
Some analysts feel that as the pace of economic
recovery picks up, voluntary labor turnover among U.S.
corporations will skyrocket. While many business
leaders (dumb, fat and happy) feel the workforce
should be grateful to just have a job, astute observers
are predicting the amount of pent-up turnover to be as
incredibly high as 45%.
Management is caught up in reporting that their
surveys show worker satisfaction to be quite high.
This should be small comfort, however, because in
conative terms we know that what workers say they
like or appreciate
is not an indicator of what they would
do when given multiple
opportunities.
Furthermore, according to the Harvard Business Review
one of the key reasons employees quit is the difference
between their expectations and the deliverables in
regard to job content. This is a
tailor-made opportunity for Kolbe consultants who have
the products available to help employers define job
expectations and to match them against an employee's
natural talents. When an employee's talents are well
utilized in the organization, they are less likely to be
seduced when job opportunities are more plentiful.
This is the kind of bottom-line issue that should be of
immense value to business. If you'd like to explore this
opportunity further or you have a success story to
share, please contact us.
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