Revealing the hidden mind
Is your team fully engaged and working to their natural strengths?
Discover how Kolbe assessments can help you understand and utilize the natural talents of your team members. Align roles with instincts to boost productivity, enhance teamwork, and achieve better results.
What Kolbe is...
- It identifies the instinct that drive your natural behaviors
- It describes "MO"
- It focuses on strengths
- It identifies traits that are universal and equal (unbiased)
- Not by race, gender, ethnicity, etc.
What the Kolbe is not about..
- How smart you are
- Your capabilities/skill level
- Personality
- What you can do and can't do
- What you want to do
- Social style
Three Parts of The Mind
The human mind comprises the Affective (emotions and feelings), Cognitive (thoughts and reasoning), and Conative (instincts and actions domains).
The Cognitive Mind
This part of your mind defines your “intelligence.” It grows as you learn and is everchanging. IQ tests are the most common form of testing; however, anyone that has taken a test more than once knows that the results only showcase a portion of a person’s true ability to learn, retain and recall information.
The Affective Mind
A person’s affective strengths lie in their ability to use emotion effectively. Assessments such as the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator measure a person’s reaction to circumstances and assigns a “personality type” that defines the emotional tools that you use to cope, grow and communicate in your daily life. Like the cognitive mind, your affective traits evolve and fluctuate given your experiences and circumstances.
The Conative
Mind Simply put, conation drives action. Actions drive performance. To understand how you and others achieve peak performance, you need to understand the conative part of the mind. While philosophers through the centuries discussed the existence of conation, Kathy Kolbe was the first to identify its key attributes and how to measure them.
The Cognitive Mind
This part of your mind defines your “intelligence.” It grows as you learn and is everchanging. IQ tests are the most common form of testing; however, anyone that has taken a test more than once knows that the results only showcase a portion of a person’s true ability to learn, retain and recall information.
The Affective Mind
A person’s affective strengths lie in their ability to use emotion effectively. Assessments such as the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator measure a person’s reaction to circumstances and assigns a “personality type” that defines the emotional tools that you use to cope, grow and communicate in your daily life. Like the cognitive mind, your affective traits evolve and fluctuate given your experiences and circumstances.
The Conative
Mind Simply put, conation drives action. Actions drive performance. To understand how you and others achieve peak performance, you need to understand the conative part of the mind. While philosophers through the centuries discussed the existence of conation, Kathy Kolbe was the first to identify its key attributes and how to measure them.
MORE THAN 1 MILLION PEOPLE HAVE USED THE KOLBE A INDEX TO UNDERSTAND THEIR NATURAL STRENGTHS.
FACT FINDER
The instinctive need to probe and the way we gather and share information Behavior ranges from gathering detailed information and documenting strategies to simplifying and clarifying options. This Action Mode deals with detail and complexity, providing the perspective of the past.
FOLLOW THRU
The instinctive need to pattern and the way we organize and design Behavior ranges from being systematic and structured to being adaptable and flexible. This Action Mode deals with structure and order and provides focus and continuity.
QUICK START
The instinctive need to improvise and the way we deal with risk and uncertainty Behavior ranges from driving change and innovation to stabilizing and preventing chaos. This Action Mode deals with originality and risk-taking and provides intuition and a sense of vision.
IMPLEMENTOR
The instinctive need to demonstrate and the way we handle space and tangibles Behavior ranges from making things more concrete by building solutions to being more abstract by imagining a solution. This Action Mode deals with physical space and provides durability and a sense of the tangible.
