Your Kolbe A™ strengths profile is a foundational and transformative step towards greater self-awareness and focus.

What is Kolbe?

A METHODOLOGY

Developed by Kathy Kolbe it’s a methodology that measures how people naturally take action when striving. It’s about your instinctive way of problem-solving and getting things done.

THE CORE PREMISE

You’ll perform best when you work with your instincts rather than against them. There's no "better" or "worse" pattern, just different ways of operating.

DIFFERENT THAN PERSONALITY OR IQ ASSESSMENTS

The Kolbe A™ Index identifies the innate drives that determine how you initiate action, known as the conative part of the mind.

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Everyone possesses innate strengths that are measured along a continuum of 1-10 within each of four Action Modes:

Fact Finder: How you gather & share information

Follow Thru: How you organize systems & structure

Quick Start: How you deal with risk & uncertainty

Implementor: How you handle physical space & tangible items

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The Assessments

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IDENTIFY AND OPTIMIZE

We start with the Kolbe A™ Index, a straightforward, online assessment with 36 questions that reveals your natural instinctive strengths and how you’ll most effectively contribute when free to be yourself. If you’re part of a team, we give attention to everyone’s strengths distributed across the Action Modes, discuss synergies as well as opportunities to lean into the collective strengths of the team.

ALIGN

Boost productivity by matching strengths to job requirements. Use advanced Kolbe reports to pinpoint job-related stress and get each person performing at their best.

The Kolbe B™ and C™ Indexes—each with 24 questions—create a complete picture of role alignment when compared to the A™ Index result.

Kolbe B Index – Captures your own perception of what your role requires of you
Kolbe C Index – Captures your manager's expectations for what the role requires

When there's a gap between someone's natural strengths (A Index) and what they believe the role requires (B Index), or what their manager expects (C Index), that's where strain and tension occur, and productivity drops.

These assessments help you see those gaps clearly and address them—not by trying to change people, but by realigning roles and expectations to work with people's natural wiring rather than against it.

EXPAND:

Kolbe’s RightFit™ Hiring approach removes the guesswork in your hiring efforts. This proven and unbiased method is the missing link to evaluating candidates’ innate problem-solving methods against what’s required for success in any job.

What Kolbe is not: It doesn't measure intelligence or personality. It measures instinct—how you naturally get things done.

Kolbe A™ Index

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When you understand how you're wired, you stop fighting your own nature. You make faster decisions, communicate more clearly, and stop wasting energy trying to operate like someone you're not. Kolbe gives you a proven framework for honoring your instincts—and the confidence to trust them.

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Takes 15-20 minutes to complete

Provides actionable insights & tips

Captures how you gather and share information, how you structure and organize things, how you deal with risk and uncertainty, and how you interact with physical space and tangibles

Kolbe for Teams

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Why do some team collaborations flow, while others grind? Most team friction isn’t personal. It’s instinctive. Leveraging the diversity of problem-solving already on your team helps reduce friction, leads to better delegation, and you’re able to build and lead a team that complements each other’s strengths rather than competes.

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Individual Kolbe A™ results

Customized 1:1 Review Sessions

Consultation with Leaders

Team Success Reports

Team Optimization Reports

Facilitated Team Engagement Sessions

Resumes tell you what someone has done. Kolbe tells you how they'll actually work. RightFit™ uses Kolbe's validated methodology to match candidates' instinctive strengths to the real demands of the role—so you build teams based on natural fit, not just credentials, and reduce the costly churn of hires who look right on paper but struggle in practice.

RightFit™ Hiring Approach

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Possibilities abound. Let's chat.

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