Kolbe Index A. Can it really predict your strengths?

Hi, today we are going to talk about one of the most popular personality tests around. The famous Kolbe Index Personality Assessment purports to help people reach their highest potential and help companies make the right appointments, but in actual fact it really helps no one. This is because the test itself is based on dubious notions of human instinct, which can actually end up hampering people from reaching their full potential. Let’s look at why this is.

Kathy Kolbe is a bestselling American author, entrepreneur and speaker. She has famously designed a number of assessment and performance tests widely used across the world. She is possibly best known for her rather controversial conviction that the abilities of human instinct itself is capable of neutralizing and trumping all learning disabilities. She is also famous for popularizing the term Conation, which is what she calls the faculty of the brain that enables action in accordance with instincts. She is founder and Chair of the non-profit Center for Conative Abilities.

The Centre claims to provide training and to educate individuals and communities in practical ways to engage conative strengths constructively.

One of Kolbe’s most well known “contributions” is her Index Personality Assessment, which she developed based on her perception of herself as “the world’s leading authority on human instincts.” Sadly, there are many others who share this misconception of her, leading some of her more ardent followers to even bestow upon her bizarre titles such as “Maslow’s successor.” Kolbe, dissatisfied with an IQ-based identification of abilities, consequently “discovered” what she identified to be the “mysterious conative patterns of human behaviour,” and which she claims has been largely ignored by academics. And it’s probably being ignored for good reason. Her point of departure was the idea that every single person is gifted with the innate ability to creatively find solutions to solve problems. She bases this ability on human instinct, which she portrays as innate neurological processes which structure and shape our every action. She claims that the reason small children have seemingly inexhaustible energy resources is because of the fact that they act in accordance with their instincts, whereas if we act contrary to our instinct it is essentially like swimming upstream. Does it make sense to you? Well, let’s dig a little deeper, shall we?

The theory claims to be “bolstered by 35 years of scientific research and validation,” but in reality, this is nonsense. One of its major problems is that her fundamental proposition is all people possess equal creative potential—making her a proponent of a kind of psychological equality, if you will. But this is nothing more than wishful thinking that simply has no correspondence with reality. If it were true we’d all have the ability to be Albert Einstein or Stephen Hawking simply by instinctively believing ourselves to be so.

The primary challenge is that like most personality tests, especially those that require a computer algorithm, the Kolbe Index Personality Assessment expressly claims not to show you what is potentially lacking with you, but to highlight your strengths and help you improve your levels of confidence, energy and productivity. Thus, in reality the “result” you get is more of a motivational speech than anything else. It categorizes everyone in the world into four different types based on their so-called instinctual or conative types: the fact finder, the follow thru, the quick start and the implementer. These personality types then purportedly determine your natural Modus Operandi, which is supposedly the way you ought to act in order to be true to yourself.

Ironically, the very reason why such personality tests which categorize people into certain personality types remain so appealing to many people is primarily because it inflates our egos and makes us feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

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