Wouldn’t you love it if there was a personality test you could use that would tell you if the virtual assistant, or office manager or project manager you are about to hire for your team, is actually a great fit for the role they will fill.
How can you be sure you won’t end up micro-managing them or if you will be communicating in a way that they could never cope with?
Well, there’s a test for that!
I’ve just recently discovered the Kolbe Test after a discussion with my mastermind group where many of the business owners, responsible for hiring (and firing) a wide variety of staff all swore by The Kolbe test.
I also share what section of the test is really important for you to know when you are hiring a Virtual Assistant.
Cheers
Janet
P.S. You can do the test here: www.Kolbe.com and hey, if you’re curious, my results are 2,4,10,3 (So an innovator with a knack for simplifying things and who should never, under any circumstance, pull apart anything mechanical to try and fix it!). I’d love to hear if you’ve done the test and if you’ve used it to hire staff.
Transcript

Janet: Hello and welcome. Janet Beckers here with your Wonderful Web TV tip of the week. Today I’m going to share with you a personality test that I just came across recently, it’s been out for a while, but one that I’ve just done for myself. It’s absolutely excellent or working out when you’re hiring an assistant so that you can work it out if they are going to be right for the job for you. Let me share with you the details.
Have you heard of the Kolbe test? I’ve got the links down below. It’s K-O-L-B-E. Kobe test. Now, it’s been around for quite a while, but it’s one of the ones that I haven’t done before. It had been recommended to me by a few different people when I was talking about building your team and finding who is the right person to do the right job for you. Especially when you’re looking at getting a virtual assistant, or a personal assistant, or somebody who’s going to be responsible for turning your ideas into reality. For doing that grunt work. The Kolbe test was the one that a lot of the people who I really respect were saying, “We use this for every single person that comes into our business and we don’t hire people without doing it.” That was the Kolbe test.
Out of curiosity, I’ve put my links down below. I’ve put my down my results for you below and the links for you to go and do it. If you do decide to do it, it’s about 50 bucks, so you just want to make sure you only do it for people you’re thinking about putting on your team. I’ll be really interested to see what kind of results you’ve got, so come back and share them. Not surprisingly, mine have come out as being a person who takes a lot of action and is the innovator, is the person that comes up with the ideas and thinks and kind of always look at different ways of making something work, and also very good at simplifying. It also gave me the advice to never, ever, ever pull any piece of machinery apart. There you go.
The important thing here is one of those things that they do is called a follow through, which is how is it you’re a person who follows systems, are you a person who creates systems, or are you a person who destroy systems? When you’re looking for somebody who’s going to be your assistant, the person who’s going to be responsible for making things work in your business, you want to make sure that they have a higher follow through number than you. Now, this is advice I was given the other day and I thought, “How clever is that?” I like the idea that I don’t have to guess.