Kolbe’s four Action Modes are the modern breakthrough in understanding and explaining the conative part of the mind. Kathy Kolbe’s key insight was that everyone has a strength in how they operate in each of these Action Modes.

Each person is born with patterns of behaviors driven by instinct, not based on what they can do or want to do – rather they describe what they will or won’t do when free to be themselves. The Kolbe A™ Index identifies and validates these innate conative talents – the instinctive method of operation (MO) that enables each person to be their best self. An MO is represented by four numbers which indicate how a person instinctively takes action in each of the four Action Modes: Fact Finder, Follow Thru, Quick Start and Implementor.