Unlocking Creativity and Purpose

 

Kathy Kolbe is an acclaimed theorist, best-selling author and pioneer, Kathy Kolbe was the first to prove the existence of the conative mental faculty, which causes us to act, react and interact. She has spent over 40 years collecting and analyzing conative traits to help us be ourselves. She founded Kolbe Corp, was CEO for 30 Years, and is now its Chairman Emerita. Nicole Loucks is the Vice President of Youth and Education Programs and Director of Training at Kolbe Corp, Nicole has the privilege of working directly with business leaders, educators, and students alike to help them understand their innate strengths and how to utilize them in the ways they care about most. Nicole is passionate about educational advocacy and helping children.

 

Show Highlights

 

• Take a powerful personal assessment tool to give purpose to your leadership. 

• Schools don't meet the needs of students with diverse learning styles.

• Most teachers lead with Fact Finder or Follow Through modes.

• Building on strengths is crucial for better employee performance and relationships.

• Conation vs cognition in schools.

• Student Aptitude Quiz provides tips and tricks for using strengths productively.

• Educators and parents play crucial roles in giving purpose to youth.

• Communication possibilities for cognitive conflicts

 

“‘We're going to change everything.’  That's super stressful for a lot of people to hear in the education field. It's all about how to communicate and deliver work collaboratively together with those differences so that you are able to reach that purpose. I don't know any educator who's gone past the first year principal or teacher or assistant who's not there because their purpose is to help kids, but you have to understand their approaches to help. Bottom line, to educators, if your purpose is to help kids learn, I think the first thing they have to help is how they learn. They need to understand themselves and how they learn best. And by helping students learn how they learn and the joy of learning, then they become purposeful in their learning. And then the teacher feels I've accomplished a goal.”

-Kathy Kolbe

Get the episode transcript here!

 

Kathy Kolbe and Nicole Loucks’s Resources & Contact Info:

 

• Kolbe A Assessment

• Student Aptitude Quiz

• Kids and Parenting Solutions | Kolbe.com

• The History of Kolbe Corp

 

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