Kolb Experiential Learning Profile (KELP)

The KELP is the newest version and replacement of the Kolb Learning Styles Inventory 4.0.

The Kolb Experiential Learning Profile (KELP) is an online, self-reflective questionnaire designed to help individuals understand how they learn from experience and identify their personal preferences throughout the learning process. Servicing as the modern replacement for the Kolb Learning Style Inventory 4.0, this untimed assessment takes only 10 to 15 minutes to complete. Rather than scoring technical knowledge, it maps a user’s habits across nine distinct learning styles to generate an extensive personal report mapping their behavioral flexibility, problem-solving habits, and team collaboration dynamics.

The latest version of the original Learning Style Inventory developed by David A. Kolb. Like its predecessors, the Kolb Experiential Learning Profile (KELP) is based on experiential learning theory and is designed to help individuals identify the way they learn from experience. This is deceptively important since learning is the primary process used to navigate life. All change, innovation, teamwork, decision-making, resilience, and leadership require learning and development.

The way you learn is the way you live make decisions, solve problems, change, collaborate, innovate, and improve. The first step in your awareness of your own learning is self-assessment.  The NEW Kolb Experiential Learning Profile (KELP) was created as a self-reflection tool to help learners understand themselves better through their individual preferences in approaching an ideal process of learning.  The KELP provides transformative self-awareness that you can use to improve performance, learn, and continue to develop throughout your life.  The KELP will help you and your employees or learners to understand themselves better, to collaborate more successfully on teams, and to use new learning methods to meet the demands you face.

Informed by an extensive research base of more than 106,000 scholarly citations and continuous improvements through six previous versions, the new KELP gives a broader and more personalized view of how we learn than previous learning style instruments.  Millions of users in 164 countries around the world have contributed to the KELP normative comparison group of more than 26,000 students and working adults from a wide range of occupations and educational backgrounds.  The KELP can help employees and students understand how their learning styles affect problem solving, teamwork, handling conflict, communication and career choice. The results can help teams find out why they work well together or encounter conflict. The KELP strengthens overall learning for people in all walks of life.

What It’s Best Used For

• Optimizing corporate team dynamics: Helping workforce crews discover why they work well together or encounter conflict, allowing team leaders to motivate employees and maximize collective time.
• Tailoring academic and trainee development: Guiding educators, trainers, coaches, and mentors to adjust their instruction methods based on how their students or trainees process information.
• Measuring cognitive and learning flexibility: Mapping a user’s capacity to step outside their comfort zone and utilize alternative learning habits to face complex professional challenges.
• Informing career choices and coaching loops: Providing professional guidance counselors and individual lifelong learners with data regarding how their learning archetypes impact workplace communication, career choice, and conflict resolution.

How It Works

The KELP is a self-administered assessment that you complete online. The inventory takes 10–15 minutes to complete. Once you submit your answers, you will receive an email with an extensive personal report, which includes:

• How you use the ideal cycle of learning in your life and work
• Your typical learning style from the nine ways of learning 
• Your learning flexibility, which allows you to expand your ability to use other styles for full-cycle learning 
• Applications for what you have learned about yourself to increase your learning power, become more effective, and continue to mature throughout life.

Who Should Take The KELP

• Individual lifelong learners
• Students, trainees, mentees and coaches
• Educators, teachers, administrators, trainers, coaches and mentors
• Employers, managers and team leaders
• Team members, employees and group members

Understanding how people learn can help you to target your training and development efforts, motivate teams, and make optimum use of your collective time, resources and capabilities. The Kolb Experiential Learning Profile recognizes individual learning preferences, while encouraging individuals to expand learning strengths.

Benefits of the KELP

• Individuals use the KELP to boost self-awareness and receive a map with ideas for immediate improvement and development moving forward.
• Educators use it to discover their own preferences, understand learners who are different from them, and empower learners to take charge of their own learning.
• Team leaders use it to tap deep diversity and team member strengths, minimize conflict, and improve effectiveness.
• Professionals use the KELP to build awareness of themselves and others, improve teamwork and collaboration, understand their clients, and unleash potential.
• Organizations use the KELP and Experiential Learning solutions to boost organizational learning capacity, develop leaders, promote diversity and inclusion, and inspire employees to become better.
• Coaches use the KELP and complete the KELP Certification Program to mine the gold from this unique tool for self-awareness and awareness of others with team members, employees, clients, and students.

We regret that we cannot provide refunds once your purchase has been completed.

See the other KOLB tools including the KOLB Team Learning Experience too.

• KOLB Learning Style Inventory 3.1
• KOLB Learning Style Inventory 3.2
• KOLB Team Learning Experience

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