What is the Kolbe A test and why use it for a dental team? The Kolbe A is an operational test, and that distinction matters. It does not measure intelligence or personality. It measures how you actually approach getting things done, how you instinctively work. I prefer it over personality testing because personality results are hard to apply on the floor of a real practice. Operational traits, on the other hand, show up everywhere, at work and at home, and they barely change over a lifetime. I have run it on doctors and entire teams, and dentists tend to cluster around [...]