Events
Western Carolinas Monthly Program: How the Kolbe Framework Can Improve Your Client's Self-Awareness and Improve Coaching Effectiveness
When: 5/5/2023
But how easily are those results translated into productive behaviors? How well do they really predict how we uniquely and instinctively initiate action in the performance of tasks and in problem-solving?
In this presentation, attendees will learn about the only assessment that consistently does that--the Kolbe A™ Index. Based not on personality-based preferences as most other assessments are, this flagship of the suite of Kolbe indices measures a part of the human creative process that has been neglected for centuries--conation, or striving. It reveals how we instinctively act in practical terms that directly relate to lower stress and higher personal and team productivity. Best of all it uses terminology that is easy to remember and put into practice.
Learning objective: Introduction to a tool that can both enhance coach-client communication and provide clients with a practical framework for reducing stress and increasing productivity in the workplace.
CCEUs will be available for this program: 0.75 Core Competencies and 0.75 Resource Development
Meet Your Presenter: Vally M. Sharpe, M.A.
Vally M. Sharpe, M.A., is a trained psychotherapist and psychological testing expert who left private clinical practice in 1992 to enter the corporate world as a leadership consultant. Certified in the Kolbe Concept, for the next 18 years she consulted and provided guidance in hiring and executive team building for companies ranging from micro-enterprises to Fortune 500 corporations, including Hershey Foods, Quaker Oats and Intel, providing guidance in hiring and executive team building.
In the early years of Kolbe Corp., Sharpe worked with founder Kathy Kolbe, conducting statistical research and writing interpretive content for career and team-building reports. She and a business partner ran Kolbe Corp.'s operations and scoring center from 1996 to 2000, when Kolbe Corp moved its index-scoring software online.
Sharpe continued to provide private Kolbe consulting services until 2004, when she co-founded United Writers Press, a publishing services firm providing back-office services for self-publishers and other book publishing firms. Since then, she has worked on more than 750 book projects, ranging from short-run family memoirs to commercial best sellers, such as the first volume of HarperCollins' internationally bestselling "Pete the Cat" children's series.
Sharpe was recertified as a Kolbe external consultant in 2022. In addition to publishing services, she provides Kolbe-based assessments and team-building services to individuals, small businesses and nonprofits. She is currently working with the 2022-2023 Leadership Asheville class, where she is facilitating the use of the Kolbe framework to enhance self-development, improve collaboration and enhance project outcomes.