Our Head of Customer Support has a Kolbe score showing a very high Quick Start and low Follow Thru, which makes him great at handling escalation crises but terrible at building the repeatable escalation playbooks we need to scale. How do we restructure his seat to leverage his strengths without leaving our processes in chaos?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

This is a classic conative mismatch. Your Head of Customer Support has the right core values, but his instinctive way of taking action is misaligned with the structural needs of a scaling department. He is built for firefighting, not fire prevention.

Do not try to force him to change his conative wiring. A person's Kolbe index is stable and unchanging. If you keep demanding that a low Follow Thru individual document detailed standard operating procedures, you will end up with frustration, burnout, and incomplete documentation.

Instead, restructure the seat by stripping out the systems and process documentation roles. Create a new, distinct seat on your Accountability Chart specifically for Customer Support Systems and Enablement. This seat should be owned by someone with a high Follow Thru conative profile who loves building, organizing, and maintaining structured playbooks.

Your existing leader can then focus entirely on customer retention, high-level customer escalations, and team motivation, where his high Quick Start conative strengths are a massive asset. This keeps him in a seat where he truly GWCs the roles, while ensuring your scaling processes are documented by someone naturally wired to do so.