Enable Yourself To Be You: The Greatest Opportunity Entrepreneurs Have During COVID-19 with Kathy Kolbe and Joe Polish – Episode #145

Episode Summary

Are you enabling yourself to be you? Learn the importance of knowing and embracing who you are in today’s episode of the Genius Network Podcast. In this episode, Kathy Kolbe, the founder of Kolbe Corp and creator of the Kolbe Assessment, reveals why the greatest opportunity for Entrepreneurs to do good work and make a big difference is right now. Kathy and Joe will also discuss how to avoid conflict and create harmony in your home and within your business so everyone can have the freedom to be themselves while supporting the growth of the team. 

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Here’s a glance at what you’ll learn from Kathy and Joe in this episode: 

  • Why now is the greatest opportunity for Entrepreneurs to do good work and make a big difference
  • The difference between cognition and conation, and how to use your Kolbe to have more success
  • How to avoid conflict and create harmony between the “Four Action Modes” in Kolbe during a crisis
  • One of the best things you can do if you or someone you know is depressed during the COVID-19 crisis
  • Creating synergistic teams with Kolbe so you have the right mix of people in the right place
  • Stick To You: Maintaining momentum when you’re feeling stable, focused and decisive
  • What is happening (and what could happen) with the current educational system
  • How young people can express their talent, develop innate abilities and have more confidence
  • One thing you should do as soon as possible to enhance your personal and professional relationships

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Show Notes

  • This is the best time in history to do good work and make a difference.
  • Disruption creates opportunity – you can and will do something in the home, in your business, and in your community. 
  • Entrepreneurs know what it takes to get things started – and you can do it from home. 
  • Kathy hasn’t been in an airplane in a decade and it hasn’t slowed her down. 
  • Kathy loves her iPhone and watch, they keep her connected in healthy. 
  • Don’t stop because it’s tough; strive and use your cognitive gifts. 
  • We are meant to be who we are; we are not who others think we are. 
  • High quickstarts operate like, “Ready, fire, aim”.
  • Smart people can only tell us about the truth we already know.
  • Quickstarts are vision-oriented; they look to the future, not to what we already know. 
  • We all have a conative that is different than our cognitive which is our natural ability to create solutions. 
  • The conative is what you do about what you know, the cognitive is only what you know. 
  • Emotions are what drive you to take action. 
  • Kathy has collected data to prove and validate the Kolbe A Index. 
  • Everyone has an equal amount of conative ability; it’s about how well we know ourselves and use it. 
  • Kathy’s definition of success is the freedom to be yourself. 
  • You’re still free to be you at home; don’t feel stuck because you can’t go out.
  • Take the assessment and have your partner take it, too. 
  • The fact-finder ability is the ability to simplify. 
  • Create new programs and products; make new customer relationships.
  • Turn your partnership into teamwork, not conflict, and energize each other. 
  • In follow-though, there are people that have a natural way to systemize. 
  • If you initiate structure, this is a tough time for you. 
  • Lean into people that give you the conative abilities you don’t have. 
  • There are a lot of spousal issues in follow-through.
  • There are as many resistant follow-though females and males. 
  • The more quickstart you are, the more you thrive in uncertainty. 
  • If you’re a 7 or higher, this is your time – get out and do the uncertain. 
  • A resistant quickstart is having lots of challenges right now but provides stability for others; they cognitively understand but need stability.
  • Learn to love what you sometimes don’t like.
  • Implementers need quality; it’s important to set up your space to fit your needs. 
  • Resistant implementers can imagine solutions and an initiating follow-through can help build it. 
  • Keep checking your synergy and Kolbe dynamics.
  • Depressed people need to hear how much they have to offer – the Kolbe helps build self-efficacy.
  • Sometimes people see kids as being problematic – they drug them so they aren’t free to be themselves. 
  • Parents, trust your instincts and judgment – what most parents are doing now is better than what was happening in school.
  • Very few teachers know how to capture an audience online; kids are seeing the struggles and learning a lesson about technology and their teacher’s reality. 
  • Kids are evaluating, seeing inconsistencies, and becoming wise to what’s going on. 
  • Watch fun TV; you can learn from it. 
  • We don’t need to use classical education programs; teach the reality.
  • We are dependent on people in the middle to keep us centered – without follow-through the world wouldn’t move. 
  • As long as we can have the freedom to be who we are, everything will be okay. 
  • Use “quickstart muscles” to maintain stability. 
  • To kill a business, start a business with another quickstart. 
  • Brainiac is the newest Kolbe product for young children. 
  • Figure out what you miss the most during this time and do something to express your feelings.

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