Assessments

My definition of success is the freedom to be yourself”, says Kathy Kolbe, founder of Kolbe Corp and ground-breaking theorist in the field of conation.

With the freedom to be yourself, you can make great strides in your career, business, family life, and other personal relationships. People who’ve taken the Kolbe Indexes have become more confident, more energetic, and more powerful—just from understanding their natural talents.

There’s a type of stress people don't talk about: the stress of trying to act like somebody other than your true self.

Kolbe can help you relieve this burden by showing you how to be free to be yourself. Identifying your natural talents will help you understand how you do your best work and why certain things come so easily to you while others do not. You will learn to emphasize the things that come most naturally to you and stop fighting your natural instincts.

Backed by more than 30 years of research and practical applications, Kolbe provides an amazingly accurate map of an individual’s natural instincts, or modus operandi (MO). The Kolbe A™ Index is quick and easy to complete online. Kolbe is the only profile that identifies and quantifies conative (doing) talents, how one instinctively and intuitively takes action. This differs from cognitive (thinking) profiles that measure knowledge and experience, or affective (feeling) assessments that measure emotional behavior.

The Kolbe B™ Index measures an individual’s expectations of how he or she should perform in a current job. Comparing a Kolbe B Index result with an A Index result yields insights into how to leverage instinctive talents at work.

Kolbe Career MO+™ is a supplemental report to the Kolbe A Index that identifies job categories that are best suited to an individual’s Index result. The Career MO+ also allows users to see how well their MO fits different career paths and offers customized strategies for leveraging natural talents in a current job.

Kolbe Sales MO+™ is a supplemental report to the Kolbe A Index that helps individuals use their instinctive talents to improve sales performance. Designed for individual salespeople as well as teams, the Sales MO+ offers tailored advice on how best to handle basic sales functions and improve return on effort.

Kolbe TeamSuccess® seminar is a full or half-day customized program designed to introduce organizations or workgroups to key Kolbe concepts and strengths-based strategies for improving performance. Each session provides a complete inventory and analysis of individual instinctive strengths. Participants learn how their natural abilities align with their personal expectations for performance as well as with their employer’s requirements for success.

Kolbe RightFit™ is Kolbe’s statistically proven hiring tool that helps companies screen and select the best job applicants. Instead of guessing how well a prospective employee will perform, RightFit helps you identify the required methods of operation, or profile, of the ideal candidate. The software then ranks each candidate on an “A” to “F” scale based on how well their individual instincts compare to the requirements for success in a given role. RightFit can also be used to select individuals who match the methods of proven high-performers, as well as individuals who can fill a critical gap on a team.

Key benefits of Kolbe’s approach include cost savings and reduced turnover. One national financial services company using RightFit estimates saving more than $10 million between interviewing, retraining and downtime. Another employer reports 0% of the employees hired using RightFit left for job-related reasons.

Kolbe’s Leadership Analytics™ (LEAN) Solutions don’t just identify the cause of team productivity problems. They deliver strategies to solve them. By relating the instinctive strengths of team members to the factors that determine group success, LEAN provides managers, entrepreneurs and leaders with proof-of-improvement metrics for a wide range of group challenges.

A complete set of LEAN documents helps team leaders to:

• Pinpoint sources of conflict
• Break through group inertia and organizational paralysis
• Accommodate differing approaches to problem solving
• Align team member expectations with supervisor requirements
• Inventory the collection of instinctive strengths on the team
• Accomplish more with fewer people
• Improve individual and group productivity

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