1. Kolb Learning Style Inventory
Created by Olga Maleyev
2012
Text and images are based on the Hay’Group Learning Style Inventory LSI Workbook 3.1
Kolb Learning Style Inventory

2. How we learn We all learn in different ways
The Kolb Learning Style Inventory (LSI) is designed to help us to understand how we learn best in educational settings or everyday life
Learning can be described as a cycle made up of four basic phases
The LSI takes us through those four phases to give us a better understanding of how we learn

3. Knowing Your Learning Style Helps To Understand:
How to maximize your learning from educational programs
How you solve problems
How you work in teams
How to manage disagreement and conflict
How you make career choices
How to improve personal professional relationship

4. Understanding The Learning Styles
Once you marked the point on the axes on the Sheet#2 you can see that the connected dots have formed a kite shape.
Each person’s learning style is unique and therefore everyone’s kite shape will be different
The shape of your kite will tell you about your own particular learning style and how much you rely on that style.
Before we start interpreting everyone’s kite we need to learn few more terms.
When you look at this diagram you see that each sector/quadrant defines a Learning Style .
Combination of Concrete Experience and Reflective Observation phases creates a Diverging style
While The Abstract Conceptualization and Reflective Observation creates an Assimilating style
On the same token the Abstract Conceptualization and Active Experimentation gives us a Converging style and
Accommodation style is a combination of Active Experimentation and Concrete Experience.

5. What Is Your Style? Accommodating Diverging Converging Assimilating
Here are the possible example of the kites that are specific to each style
Let’s take a look at your kite.
And try to match the shape of your kite to the examples above.

6. Diverging Style (concrete, reflective)
Best viewing situation from many different points of view
Prefer to observer rather than take action
Enjoy brainstorming sessions
Have broad cultural interest and like to gather ideas
In formal learning situation may prefer working in groups to gather information, listening with an open mind and receiving personalized feedback
Arts and entertainment, communications, social service

7. Assimilating Style (abstract, reflective)
Best understanding wide range of information and putting it into concise , logical form.
Less focused on people and more interested in abstract ideas and concepts
Find it’s more important that a theory has a logical soundness than practical value
In formal learning situation may prefer lectures, readings, exploring analytical models and having time to think things through on their own.
Sciences and mathematics, legal profession, research and higher education

8. Converging Style (abstract, active)
Best in finding a practical uses for ideas and theories
Have an ability to solve problems and make decisions based on finding solutions to questions or problems
Would rather deal with technical tasks and problem than with social and interpersonal issues
In formal learning may prefer experimenting with new ideas, simulations, laboratory assignments and practical applications.
Computer science and engineering, finance and economics, medicine, applied science

9. Accommodating Style (concrete, active)
Learn primarily from “hand-on” experience
Enjoy carrying out plans and involving yourself in new and challenging experiences
Have tendency to act on intuition rather than on logical analysis
In solving problem rely more heavily on people for information than own technical analysis
In formal learning situation may prefer to work with others to get assignment done and to test out different approaches
Management, HR, teaching, sales, nursing

11. Learning to ride a bicycle:
Divergent
Thinking about riding and watching another person ride a bike.
Assimilative
Understanding the theory and having a clear grasp of the biking concept.
Accommodative
Receiving practical tips and techniques from a biking expert.
Convergent
Leaping on the bike and have a go at it.

12. Basic Strengths Of Each Learning Style

13. Strengthening and Developing Each Learning Style
Tips for strengthening a use of the Diverging Style
Tune in to people feelings
Be sensitive to values
Listen with an open mind
Gather information
Imagine the implications of the ambiguous situation

14. Strengthening and Developing Each Learning Style
Tips for strengthening a use of the Assimilating Style
Organize information
Test the theories and ideas of others
Build conceptual models
Design experiments
Analyze data

15. Strengthening and Developing Each Learning Style
Tips for strengthening a use of the Converging Style
Create new ways of thinking and doing
Experiment with new ideas
Choose the best solution
Set goals
Make decisions

16. Strengthening and Developing Each Learning Style
Tips for strengthening a use of the Accommodating Style
Commit yourself to objectives
Seek new opportunities
Influence and lead others
Become personally involved
Deal with people

17. Solving Problem Process
Identifying the problem
Selecting the problem to solve
Seeing different solutions
Evaluating possible results
Implementing the solution
Understanding your learning process makes you an effective problem solver
Nearly every problem that you encounter on the job or in your life involves the following processes ( see screen)
As you can see these processes mirror those in the learning cycle.
The cycle comprises four different stages of learning from experience and can be entered at any point but all stages must be followed in sequence for successful learning to take place. The Learning Cycle suggests that it is not sufficient to have an experience in order to learn. It is necessary to reflect on the experience to make generalisations and formulate concepts which can then be applied to new situations. This learning must then be tested out in new situations. The learner must make the link between the theory and action by planning, acting out, reflecting and relating it back to the theory.
The diagram identifies your potential strengths of as a problem solver.
You can identify problem-solving process that corresponds to you and same time areas you would like to develop further.
For example, as a Diverger you might be strong in identifying a problem but need develop Accommodating skill to implement a solution.

18. Other Areas Of Life Understanding the Learning Style helps:
Working in a team
Resolving a conflict
Communicating at work
Communicating at home
Being a parent
Managing money
Considering a career
Designing training materials for students