Kairos Assessment
What is the Kairos Assessment?
The Kairos Assessment is a set of 53 straightforward questions designed to capture your reflexive responses to information, how your attention activates, what it locks onto, and what it ignores.
The result is a detailed profile of how you process, manage, and transfer information across key cognitive channels like listening, observing, moving, reading, and speaking.
What is the Kairos Assessment?
The Kairos Assessment is a set of 53 straightforward questions designed to capture your reflexive responses to information, how your attention activates, what it locks onto, and what it ignores.
The result is a detailed profile of how you process, manage, and transfer information across key cognitive channels like listening, observing, moving, reading, and speaking.
Why This Matters
Much of the friction people experience, losing focus, feeling overwhelmed, struggling to follow through, isn’t about discipline. It’s the result of trying to work against how they operate on a cognitive basis.
We don’t have one single attention system. We have multiple processes competing for input, each activating and resting in different ways.
Some act like radar—always on. Others require more stimulus to engage and more effort to sustain.
The Kairos Assessment makes those patterns visible.
How the Kairos Assessment Is Different
Unlike traditional assessments that blend personality, emotion, and performance, the Kairos Assessment isolates cognition and separates it from how you feel. It gets underneath skill and aptitude to something more fundamental: how your mind is wired to engage with information.
Think of it like handedness. It doesn’t determine what you’re capable of, but it dramatically affects how you perform best.
Once you understand these patterns, you and your coach can begin to design a system that works with your attention, not against it, reducing friction, improving focus, and making consistency easier to maintain.
What GTD® Founder David Allen Says
"Discovering what is really under the hood of your car can make a world of difference in how you drive and utilize its power. The Kairos Assessment does the same thing for the mind, producing awareness for creating the best strategies for our own thinking and working. It has been a brilliant resource for me personally, as well as for hundreds of our clients."
All GTD Coaching clients receive the Kairos Assessment as part of their program.