Janie Cedillo July 18, 2010 GM591 Life Styles Inventory: Self-Description My primary style is the Humanistic-Encouraging Style. According to results in this area, I have a high tendency to care about others and accept others for who they are without any question. My second highest ranking style is the Affiliative Style. According to the guide, when ranking in this category, People are categorized by: A tendency to value relationships above all else * A need to build relationships that
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LSI ASSESSMENT Introduction The Life Styles Inventory (LSI) is a self-assessment diagnostic instrument that measures 12 key thinking patterns, or "styles". The LSI promotes performance change and improvement by increasing personal understanding of one's thinking and behavior. By responding to these, individuals learn exactly where they need to focus their development efforts, without ambiguity or guesswork. The results of the self-description are plotted on a circular graph for easy visualization
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LIFE STYLE INVENTORY The life styles inventory is a survey of questions that help us to see our own personality and what type of behaviors we have on others. Also, it helps us to look at the positive and negative qualities of our personalities and ways to improve upon them. The LSI Style Profile helps to identify ones perception on how they reflect and behave in work involved circumstances. The profile is broken up into three style categories. 1. Constructive Styles: Reflects self-enhancing
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LSI research paper Dennis Miao dmiao8@gmail.com MGMT 591 Professor Rick Lochner 09 September 2013 My primary (highest percentile score) personal thinking style according to my circumplex is Humanistic-Encouraging at the 1 o’clock position. And my “backup” (second highest percentile) personal thinking style shown on my circumplex is Achievement at the 11 o’clock position. My Humanistic-Encouraging and Achievement are both scored at 99%, therefore my primary and secondary thinking styles
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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)
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Lafferty developed The Life Style Inventory (LSI) for self-improving purposes for the reasons of increasing a personal and professional effectiveness. The LSI measures 12 specific styles of patterns of thinking that can either help or hinder a person from reaching his or her potential. The 12 styles measured by LSI are organized into three general clusters: Constructive, which includes: achievement, self-actualizing, humanistic-encouraging, and affiliate thinking style. Passive/Defensive, which includes:
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2011 My Life Styles Inventory Interpretation I enjoyed taking the LSI because I like to seek individual growth so receiving results which reveal my strengths and weaknesses was like a gift to me. The LSI exercise has made me understand how my thinking and behavior affect myself and others. It has also given me the option to either choose to improve on myself or not. With that being said, the following are my interpretations of my LSI results. Part I: Primary and Backup Thinking Styles According
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Personal Conflict Style for Self-Development (Primary, Backup, & Limiting) In my opinion, the Life Styles Inventory illustrated scores on how I recognize my conflicts. Below conflict styles represent my strengths and weakest styles. • My primary conflict style was Conciliator, which I scored the highest on and (95th percentile). • My backup conflict style was Pragmatist, which I scored the second highest score(93rd percentile) • My limiting conflict style was Dominator, which
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Personal Thinking Styles After taking the LSI (Life Styles Inventory) survey, I noticed certain things about my personality and my thinking styles. Certain styles rated higher than others, but there were a few that stayed constant. The two longest style extensions have the greatest influence on my behavior, and are called your primary and backup styles. Going through these styles in particular, I noticed my primary style is approval and my backup style is conventional style. In the LSI index, “The Approval
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The Life Styles Inventory Survey is assessed to allow me to answer the question of, “Who am I, and what causes me to act the way that I do.” It gives an insight to one’s personality and an insight as to how we may treat others. By giving my honest opinion of several questions the results are going to give me an insight on how my thinking styles will influence my behavior as a manager and allow me to use the results for self-improvement. My results show that I Research has shown that the styles
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