My Kolbe A Index Test Results and Review Taken Through Strengths Mastery Advantage

The Kolbe A Index Test was created by Kathy Kolbe, roughly 30 years ago.

Kathy also wrote these books that also may help you in finding your strengths:

• Conative Connection, Acting on Instinct
• Powered by Instinct – 5 Rules for Trusting Your Guts
• Pure Instinct

In addition to the books, after your done taking the Kolbe A Index, on slide 18 of 27 for your results, at the bottom it says Expand Your Horizons. Each person that takes the test will have a different Natural Advantage CD that Kolbe recommends. In my case, my CD was, Entrepreneur. There are actually 18 different Natural Advantage CDs at Kolbe.com. I went to Audible.com and searched for the title: Kolbe Natural Advantage Entrepreneur.

There are 5 Kolbe Assessments, but I’ll be focusing on the Kolbe A Index.

There are many reasons why You’d take the Kolbe A Index:

• Build Better Teams in your Business
• Hire The Right People
• Know how to motivate and retain those “right people”
• Learn more about yourself to find your strengths
• Once you know your strengths you can identify ways to be more productive
• Find a job that’s less stressful and more satisfying by knowing your strengths

The Kolbe A Index measures your natural instincts or the Conative part of the mind that deals with “Doing Something”. In other words if your thrown into a situation, what are you going to do.

It’s important to understand that this isn’t a personality assessment. While you can change yourself from an introvert to an extrovert with some focused effort, your natural talents or instincts are pretty much what your born with.

The 3 Parts of the Mind

Conative = Doing. Your drive, instincts, and natural talents.

Cognitive = Thinking. Your IQ, skills, reasoning, knowledge or experience.

Affective = Feeling. Your desires, motivations, attitudes, and values.

My Kolbe A Index Results 

My MO or Modus Operandi is:

7 – Fact Finder

3 – Follow Thru

8 – Quick Start

2 – Implementator

Click Here for an example of the Kolbe A Index Results you get back after taking the test.

For some, these results may be enough information. But for others you may want more clarification on what your MO really means and how you can apply it in the real world?

I chose to take the Kolbe A Index test through Rich Schefrens Strengths Mastery Advantage since you get additional materials for added clarification. What’s great about the 37 page e-book, 11 Ways To Leverage Your Strengths and Manage Your Weaknesses, is that its written specifically for Entrepreneurs and Business Owners. “Most” of the Strengths based books are written for Managers.

Taking the kolbe a test through strengths mastery advantage is the same exact test on Kolbe.com.

If you have already taken the Kolbe A Index test you can get additional clarity from the resources I mentioned at the beginning of this article. Kathy Kolbe’s books and the Natural Advantage CDs.

Kolbe Career Choices For Entrepreneurs

Just out of curiosity I also wanted to see which “jobs” (not that I wanted one) were best suited for me based on my Kolbe A Index, so I also took the Kolbe MO Index. The Kolbe Career MO Index identifies jobs and careers that fit your MO. It also offers guidance on how to make the most of your natural talents in your current job.

So based on my Kolbe A Index results of 7 – 3 – 8 – 2, my Natural Advantage was the Entrepreneur. Here are the recommended career paths based on this. You can only get the Kolbe MO if you’ve taken the Kolbe A Index. These are my numbers and the careers correspond with my numbers. So even if you have the Natural Advantage of the Entrepreneur, but have slightly different Kolbe A Index numbers your jobs may be different. Also, its obvious that most of the jobs may not even be to our liking. Out of all these jobs below here are the ones that appeal to me, a radio interviewer, sports writer, publisher, alternative school educator, therapist, new product developer, recruiter.

Now as an Entrepreneur I’m not really looking to do any of these jobs individually. What I was looking for was, how could I take these jobs or careers that would work well for me and change these positions to fit me in Entrepreneurial roles in my own business, instead of a “job”.

Lets say Blogging:

Publisher – that’s exactly what I’m doing with this blog, publishing articles.

Radio Interviewer – I could interview other experts based on a skill I want to master and post the interview on my blog.

Sports Writer – to me this would be really boring. The content is already outdated in 1 day. No value is provided. I don’t really enjoy writing all that much, so for me to write I have to have an interest in the subject.

Alternative School Educator – Even in most good schools, they are still antiquated and hard to get around the red tape. I would prefer to coach or teach in a seminar or webinar format. You can teach exactly what you want and how you want and also get paid a lot more. Lets just say I wouldn’t be teaching math, english, or science…

Therapist or Counselor – this could be helpful in doing group coaching sessions.

Recruiter – I could use this to recruit partners in blogging on my site and when creating a new product

New Product Developer – this is probably the perfect match for me as based on my self assessment tests I’m a creator.

What I Learned From Taking The Kolbe A Index Test

My score was very close to Rich Schefren, so it was helpful to me in how he dealt with his weaknesses and what he did with his strengths.

1. I’m good at starting projects but need help finishing them as I like to start multiple NEW projects all the time which limits my focus to each project. I need to find a person or group of people who would be in the 4-6 range for Fact Finder to manage my projects and see that my projects get finished. If I actually hired someone who was just like me to manage my projects in the 7-10 Fact Finder range nothing would ever get done. We would be both trying to create.

2. Give Myself a time limit and say that’s enough information gathering. I like to learn and question everything frequently and thoroughly. I like to be precise and seek all the details about something before presenting information, thus this is why I have to put a time limit on learning. Like writing a new post on this blog, preparing for a speech, etc…

3. I look to create shortcuts, to find an easier way to do something. Someone who is a 7-10 in Follow Thru wants closure and are good at finishing projects, I was a 3.  If your a 7-10 in follow thru you stick to one thing and only look at other stuff until your finished with your current project.

4. I’m always experimenting with changes, alternatives and looking at the best way to do something, my way. I should not look to conform, stick with the script or edit one of my many ideas. It will throw a wrench in my learning and experimenting with alternatives. This could show up in any area of my life.

5. I will probably get bored after starting a new business and its up and running producing a profit. Add a new challenge to it by creating a new product or service or look at how to make current products better. Change is important to me as I get bored easily.

6. I’m a generalist through my Quick Start and a specialist in my Fact Finder. I become an expert for awhile on a lot of things and may not stay with it because I want to continue to learn and create. I start way too many projects that never see the light of day because I like to create and learn new things. How an Entrepreneur manages this is critical to our success.

The Biggest Thing Kolbe A Index Test Is Going To Help Me With

1. Creating an effective team so I can hire people for my weaknesses and focus on my strengths. This applies to any small business to almost any situation. Whether your a 1 person team, a husband and wife duo or a small business with 3-100 independent contractors or employees. Anything you suck at, makes you stressed, outsource it, but find the correct person to do so and use the Kolbe Test to help you in hiring.

Test 5-10 people with the same hour project and see how they perform. See how they follow directions and see how they deliver their work. With the 1-2 people remaining have them take the Kolbe A Index, but you pay for it. You will save you lots of headaches down the road. There’s a big difference between someone saying their “like this” but behave a completely different way when put in a situation.

If you have any questions about the Kolbe A Index Test please submit your questions in the comment box.

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