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Course project outline Professor: Sarah Hubbard Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for GM591ON Accounting and Finance By Asaid Ibzae: D01596350 Asaid82us@yahoo.com

Position | Style | Score | Percentile | 1 | Humanistic-Encouraging | 25 | 22 | 2 | Affiliative | 23 | 24 | 3 | Approval | 9 | 25 | 4 | Conventional | 10 | 20 | 5 | Dependent | 12 | 32 | 6 | Avoidance | 7 | 60 | 7 | Oppositional | 4 | 25 | 8 | Power | 0 | 0 | 9 | Competitive | 12 | 50 | 10 | Perfectionistic | 12 | 9 | 11 | Achievement | 26 | 30 | 12 | Self-Actualizing | 28 | 50 |

According to the LSI data, my primary thinking style (highest percentile), unfortunately, is Avoidance. The next two highest percentiles were Competitive and Self-Actualizing. According to the LSI Style Guide, “the Avoidance scale measures our tendency to use the defensive strategy of withdrawal.” Although my score only fell in the medium range, this was my highest percentile rank. I do think that, at times, I tend to avoid difficult problems, conflict, and responsibilities, although I do not believe that this primarily describes me. In particular, I tend to avoid conflict with other people and do not relish confrontation. This particular quality may account for my high Avoidance score. The style guide says that “Avoidance-oriented people feel a strong need to protect themselves by steering clear of anything that threatens them. These individuals prefer to stay well within their self-imposed “comfort zone,” and do so by playing it safe and avoiding risks.” This particular characterization I do not believe fits me. I actually rather enjoy new, and novel situations and people and am rather fond of certain kinds of risks. I believe that in my life and work my Avoidance tendencies are most recognizable in not being comfortable with conflict and confrontation with other people. I try to be agreeable, and this could cause me to use Avoidance techniques some of the time. It may also limit my effectiveness as a communicator in the workplace. The next two thinking styles that I ranked highest on were Competitive and Self-Actualizing. On both, however, I only scored in the 50th percentile, indicating that I am only average in displaying these traits. Individuals who score in the Medium range on the competitive thinking style “may compete primarily to get admiration and attention. You tend to see coming out ahead of others as a way to feel important.” Despite my score in the Medium range, I think that I display some qualities that are more in line with the low Competitive range, which is described as “You do not feel driven to compete. You are more likely to appreciate teamwork, and may use it to accomplish tasks and achieve goals.” In my life and work, I think that I am competitive to the extent that I enjoy competition, but I do not always have to win, and I do not “feel driven to compete.” I do, however, find some competition to be enjoyable. I also ranked in the middle of the Self-Actualizing style, and this is one of my backup thinking styles. “The Self-Actualizing scale measures a way of thinking that results in the highest form of personal fulfillment…This style is characterized by an unusually high acceptance of self, others and situations ‘as they are.’ Self-actualized people are creative and imaginative, and take a unique approach to life.” I definitely make an effort to accentuate this style of thinking in my work and personal life. In particular, I think that I have varied interests, concern for self-development, and try to take “an energetic, exciting approach to life.” In the future, Self-Actualization is something that I want to work even harder at as a result of this exercise. My limiting style would be Avoidance, which is also my primary thinking style according to the LSI data. I am choosing this style because it is the area that I ranked highest in according to the percentiles. I do think that I exhibit some Avoidance qualities, and working on this particular area would likely allow me to be more effective in the context of work as well as my personal life. The behavior that I would like to change is to be more direct and open with other people. At times I may not display these qualities to an effective extent because I tend to avoid confrontation and conflict. I think that if I am able to be more open, straightforward, and direct with other people it will allow me to be a more effective communicator, which will hopefully positively impact both my work performance as well as certain aspects of my personal life. In terms of my management style as it relates to planning, organizing, leading, and controlling, I think that my personal styles suggest that I have some strengths but also plenty of areas that I can improve on. I would rate myself only average at planning and some of my weaknesses in this area could be as a result of my tendency for Avoidance. I think that by working on some of the areas where I may practice Avoidance, I could become a better planner and improve my ability to convey plans to co-workers and subordinates. I also would rate myself about average as far as organization is concerned. I do think that my backup thinking style of Self-Actualization assists me in organizing, but my tendency for Avoidance could limit my effectiveness in this area. Another area that I need to work on which would probably help me improve my organizational skills is in Achievement where I ranked in the 30th percentile. I consider myself a strong leader but my LSI results suggest that there are a number of areas that I could work on in order to improve this quality. In particular, I should work on the Humanistic-Encouraging area, along with Affiliative. In addition, I should work to diminish my tendency towards Avoidance in order to become a clear, pro-active leader. I did not rank very highly on Controlling aspects in the LSI, and I think this is probably a good thing. I actually ranked in the 0th percentile for Power. I think that not being a power-hungry person is an attractive quality in a manager and makes the workplace relationship with subordinates easier. I try to give employees latitude to be themselves and achieve the stated goals in their own unique and individual ways. Overall, I think that this is a good thing. It is somewhat difficult for me to completely explain how I developed my personal styles that were revealed in my LSI data. In my family, I am the oldest child and have one sibling. For the most part, I had a happy family life, but maybe developed some Avoidance techniques to respond to any aspects that were not happy. In school I was a leader and well-liked, but probably did not deal with setbacks and failures as well as I should have. This could also account for why I scored relatively high on Avoidance. I also played sports competitively for many years and this might be one reason why I scored in the 50th percentile in the Competitive style. In my family, concepts like achievement, education, and self-esteem were stressed and this could have something to do with my score on the Self-Actualization style. Overall, however, I am somewhat surprised how I scored on the LSI and cannot totally account for my scores looking back at my past. One of the goals that I hope to achieve as a result of this class is to learn techniques to minimize my tendency for Avoidance while boosting practices and habits that contribute to Self-Actualization. Overall, I think that this exercise has been somewhat valuable to my personal and professional development. I can see myself in these results in some areas, while others I am still trying to grasp. This exercise has been valuable to me primarily because it has forced me to think about my own personality and has identified both strengths that I can continue to work on as well as weaknesses that I can actively work to improve upon. Specifically, I think that better understanding my weaknesses and exploring the suggestions for improving these areas will be of significant value to me.