Fact Finder is a Kolbe Action Mode. It's the term for how you deal with gathering information. There's a continuum in Fact Finder from doing things in a very simple overview way to a very complex specific way. At one end, the 1, 2, 3, level of Fact Finder, you generalize. At the other end, up to the 10, is how you become an authority or an expert.

You have a wonderful knack for being able to gather information very specifically, and that continuum in the Fact Finder mode, what you do naturally, is give the most comprehensive information that you'll find in any group. You're one of those people who is on the end of the continuum where justifying the data is just part of your game; it's what you do. Putting it into very elaborate strategies where what you've done is weighed the pros and cons, looked at things in a lot of detail to be sure that what you have is so thorough, so precise, and so on track in terms of the research having been done.

Follow Thru is a Kolbe Action Mode. It's a term we use for the method of taking action that deals with organizing, storing and sorting information. At the low number end of Follow Thru, it's an ability to be highly adaptive and multi-task. At the high end, it's being very, very systematic where you put things into sequence and build in a lot of structure. It ranges from chaos to highly organized or sequential.

I am so glad there are people like you in the world who can maintain structures; who are able to rearrange information and who are able to store it and actually retrieve it. On this continuum in Follow Thru, you are the bridge. You're the middle person who can interpret the procedures to other people. You are so good at being able to make your own decisions, because you will maintain a sense of orderliness. You will put things into a structure or a sequence when necessary. Keep in mind, you can structure and classify but you can also change that system as needed and as necessary. Give yourself not only permission to do that, but celebrate this absolutely wonderful ability.

Quick Start is the Kolbe Action Mode that deals with risk and unknowns. We all have to take risks. We all have to deal with unknowns. At the 1-2-3 level in Quick Start is where you bring stability, where you deal with what is known, and you try to manage risk so there are as few unknowns and as little risk at possible. At the high number end in Quick Start is how you innovate or improvise, or just take a risk without having to know what the outcome will be.

In the Quick Start mode you have this position in that mid zone where you are able to Modify information. You're able to deal with unknowns by adjusting what's going on around you, revising decisions. You're so flexible in this way that it's marvelous. You can work with people who are out there on the edge innovating, improvising and run and gun with them, but you'll stop just short of the danger point and pull back. Pull them back – you can save the day many, many times because of that.

Implementor is the Kolbe Action Mode through which we deal with the instinct to handle things, literally. It's a scale from the abstract to the concrete. At the 1, 2, 3 level, you imagine results. You don't have to touch and feel them, you just are able to look at them from inside your head or from a distance, or hear on the phone what's happening. At the other end, it's very concrete. You need to touch it, actually interact with it, deal with the 3 dimensional aspect of it, to build it, to be very concrete, to construct.

You don't have to touch and feel things to know they're there or to know what's happening. That doesn't mean that you don't have a sense of the environment around you - but it's a sense of it, and not hands on it, in the three dimensional where you have to touch it.