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The mind has three parts – thinking, feeling and doing. You have been tested for how
much you know by taking tests in the classroom – that’s the Cognitive part of the
mind. Your personality or emotions are the feeling or Affective part of the mind.
What you do comes from the Conative part of the mind, the part that originates
the way you take action, strive towards a goal and exercise your willpower.
The Kolbe Concept deals with the Conative part of the mind.
Each of us have varying intensities of four instinctive actions as identified by the
Kolbe Concept. Those instinctive actions are to probe, to pattern, to innovate and
to demonstrate. The names assigned to them under the Kolbe Concept are Fact
Finder, Follow Thru, Quick Start and Implementor. The following descriptors briefly
introduce each of the instinctive actions:-
- Fact Finders: practical, specific, objective, detailed
- Follow Thrus: design, coordinate, methodical, systematic
- QuickStarts: spontaneous, risky, intuitive, flexible
- Implementors: tangible, tactile, skill oriented hands on
These descriptors apply to people who have a high intensity level (insistence) in
a respective action mode, measured by a Kolbe Conative Index intensity in the
7 – 10 range. An action mode in the insistent zone predicts how one will act.
No one has an insistence in all four modes.
As a matter of fact, most people will have an insistence in only one action mode,
and occasionally two. Having an insistence in two action modes normally means
having at least one resistance on one of the two remaining modes.
A resistance, measured by the Kolbe Conative Index intensity in the 1 – 3 range,
means that instinctively resist that action. In other words an action mode in this
resistance or preventative zone means that you won’t do things, and will try and
avoid this if you can. An action mode on the mid-range of 4 – 6 means that
you will respond or accommodate doing things in this way you are willing to
do things.
The Kolbe Concept identifies your striving talents - the combination of action
modes and their zones- which make up your modus operandi (MO). When you
work ‘in your grain’ and in harmony with your MO, this is when you will be
most productive and effective in what you do.
Information presented on this page was gleaned from The Conative Connection
by Kathy Kolbe, published by Addison Wesley. |
