...Running Head: LSI – LIFE STYLES INVENTORTY 1 LSI – Life Styles Inventory DeVry College – Keller Graduate School of Management GM591 Overall, I was rather surprised at the results from my LSI – Life Styles Inventory. I believe I openly and candidly responded to the questionnaire, but none the less am both surprised by a portion of the interpretation of my personality, while other aspects of the interpretation are really spot on. I will review my primary and secondary thinking styles as revealed by the LSI, along with one limiting style. I will also discuss how these styles have an impact on my potential management styles, and my personal styles. Even though I may not like to admit the accuracy of the LSI results I find they are shockingly accurate. As I have spent the past couple of days reviewing the result and contemplating the interpretation it has opened my eyes. As shown in my LSI Circumplex my primary style is The Oppositional Style. This trait is found in the 7 o’clock position of the LSI Circumplex and is defined as “…scale measures our tendency to use the defensive and aggressive strategy of disagreeing with others, and to seek attention by being critical and cynical.” (Human Synergistics Inc, 2010). This is not a style that I had thought I would be so strongly tied to, however when reviewing the generalized characteristics of the style I found myself in agreement with the summary. I often tend to 1) ask tough probing questions, 2) have a sarcastic...
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...GM591 PREPARATION GUIDE: LIFE STYLES INVENTORY(LSI) Introduction: Thinking and Behavior "The quest for leadership is first an inner quest to discover who you are” (p.391).[1] --Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner--- Self-awareness is foundational to effective leadership and organization success[2]. Research in leadership and organizational behavior indicates that managers who are blind to who they are, and to the effects they have on other people in their organizations, place their effectiveness and their careers at risk. A frequently cited axiom is "the first commandment of leadership is to know thyself." For example, in their studies of managerial and executive derailment, the Center for Creative Leadership found that successful managers: (1) understand their values, personal styles, and strengths and weaknesses; (2) know the impact of these values, styles, and strengths and weaknesses on their ability to effectively work with others and achieve their goals; and (3) are quick to reflect upon and learn from their own experiences. Despite these advantages, we often resist opportunities to increase our self-awareness or to acknowledge error. We fear that learning something new about ourselves will be painful -- doing so may require us to change our treasured and habitual ways of seeing, thinking, and behaving. Self-awareness is also an important barometer to ensure that even the best leadership practices don't become destructive. As Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner caution...
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...Life Styles Inventory Paper Title Page MGMT591: Leadership and Organizational Behavior Student: Rodney Belk Dr. Kimberly Hunley May 15, 2016 After taking the lifestyles inventory interpretation test my primary and secondary personal thinking styles are more apparent to me. I have scored the highest in percentile of Oppositional and Power styles and very closely followed by perfectionist and competitive styles. My percentile scores in these areas were 99% for oppositional, 99% for power, and 95% for competitive. Regarding the primary style, oppositional, it is a very close perception of who I am. Taking the Life Styles Inventory (LSI) survey has really made me realized and confirm many things or styles that I've already knew about myself. On the Life Styles Inventory survey, I scored very high on the "Oppositional", "Power," “Perfectionist”, and "Competitive" styles of life. I strongly agree with this. I've always went about with that mindset. I can honestly say that for every decision I have ever made, I have taken these particular "styles" into consideration. At work as well as in my social life I have a strong tendency to be all of those things. I look at it as a way to survive. I believe in Darwin's concept of survival of the fitness idea. In order for me to live up to that belief, I need to be strong in a society that requires an individual to have those aspects in life. If you are weak, not driven, and make mistakes...
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...Life Cycle Inventory Mohamed Elamin Date: 05/15/2011 DeVry University-Keller Graduate School of Management GM 591: Leadership and Organizational Behavior Professor: Michael Belak Life Style Inventory Human behavior is one of the most complicated issues, hundreds of thousands researches had been held to understand it. Human behavior is influence by culture, attitude, emotions, value, ethnic and other genetics factors. Most of the people knew that there is no perfection especially when talking about human behavior; also it’s very difficult to measure or evaluate it. Many people may be able to describe their strengths, but they do not like to talk about their weaknesses. On the other hand, people who can objectively identify their strengths and weaknesses. But in the same time they found difficulties to recognize how they can enhance their strengths and how they can overcome their weaknesses. Therefore, Human Synergistic In. developed computer software called life style inventory, which will be referred as LSI. The LSI software helps users to assess their behavior, not only that, it work with them to improve strengths and reduce the effect of weaknesses. LSI is tremendously helpful software especially when you come to the working behavior, which requires interacting, dealing and working with people who are different from you. In the rest of this paper I will try articulate my life behavior base on LSI test. I found that my primary behavior is “competitive” and...
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...The Life Styles Inventory (LSI) Paper MGMT 591 Leadership and Organizational Behavior Instructor: Barbara Vallera 5/21/14 Introduction The Life Styles Inventory™ (LSI) presents a cycle of questions in the areas of personal fulfillment, tension, usefulness and value of interpersonal relationships and then collates participant responses into a circumflex identifying twelve exact patterns or styles of thinking, behaving and interacting on a personal, management and leadership level representing the essence of an individual's usefulness. The circumflex provides an image of an individual's thinking and behavior and then compares results with those of other individuals having taken the inventory in order to create self-awareness of strengths and weakness in order to create awareness of constructive behavior. The forming base for the LSI represents nearly ten thousand individuals from various organizations, ages, levels of education and from both genders. The results plotted on the circumflex a divided into area defined by higher order and lower order needs of satisfaction and security; and task-centered and people centered orientations. Within these spheres are twelve separate styles (agreement, conservative, reliant, prevention, oppositional, power, aggressive, obsessive, success, self-actualizing, humanistic-encouraging, and affinitive) which are consequently grouped into three exact patterns (success and reliant; self-actualizing and avoidance; humanistic-encouraging/oppositional;...
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...The Life Styles Inventory™ (LSI) Paper MGMT 591 Leadership and Organizational Behavior Introduction The Life Styles Inventory™ (LSI) presents a series of questions in the areas of personal satisfaction, stress, effectiveness and quality of interpersonal relationships and then collates participant responses into a circumplex identifying 12 specific patterns or styles of thinking, behaving and interacting on a personal, management and leadership level--representing the essence of an individual's effectiveness. The circumplex provides a visual description of an individual's thinking and behaviour and then compares results with those of other individuals having taken the inventory in order to create self-awareness of strengths and weakness in order to create awareness of constructive behaviour. The norming base for the LSI represents nearly 10,000 individuals from various organizations, ages, levels of education and from both genders. The results plotted on the circumplex a divided into areas defined by higher order and lower order needs of satisfaction and security; and task-centered and people-centered orientations. Within these spheres are 12 separate styles (approval, conventional, dependent, avoidance, oppositional, power, competitive, perfectionistic, achievement, self-actualizing, humanistic-encouraging, and affiliative) which are subsequently grouped into three specific patterns (achievement/dependent; self-actualizing/avoidance; humanistic-encouraging/oppositional;...
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...frequencies, and usually statistical tests. Qualitative research takes the information collects and analyzes it to describe which will think of anything that can take the eventual form of a text, such as interviews or to observe the behavior. Quantitative is numerical based with numbers etc. Qualitative is based off of observation the color, or shape, and style. Out of the two it is easier to prove statistically with Quantitative research but not as easy to see the insight. With Qualitative hard to see the relationship and casual data. With Quantitative strengths can research market size, demographics, preferences all of which can provide information for the business. Qualitative research provides data that is valuable, user needs, use cases, and behavior patterns. One strength of Quantitative research is providing data, a weakness is the interpretation can be complicating. Quantitative and qualitative presented as completely incompatible. Both of these strategies used separate or combined, they can both mean different things and be used for different thing depending on the objective. Both can provide insights for the interpretation and examples. Quantitative and Qualitative complement one another. One can formulate the question and the other judge and scale the findings. Based on results Quantitative is better used for general and Qualitative is used for techniques. Both methods together thy complement one...
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...Leadership and Organizational Behavior March 17th 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 to the LSI Styles Circumflex results, it shows my highest score as Affiliative Style (2 ‘o clock position) with a high percentile of 93. Affiliative people are described as individuals who appreciate people and enjoy being in the company of others. I also chose certain words listed by the LSI used to describe affiliative people: friendly, helpful, relaxed, tries to help others, trusted by others and warm. I was totally shocked how accurate this was regarding my personality trait especially since most of the words used in the description reflect the kind of person I truly am. I admit that I love being in the company of people because there is always so much love and happiness around. I do not like being in a negative environment where people are insulting themselves or just having a bad day in general. I always feel obliged to turn over such negative feelings because it really hurts me when I see friends, family and even strangers...
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...the affected individual rarely seeks help. This would have to involve the person suffering from a disorder to be in serious trouble or until their families, or in some cases; the law mandates treatment. People with personality disorders do not believe they have a disorder or have not come to terms with the disorder they believe others are at fault. Diagnosis of a personality disorder depends in part on the individuals’ age. Although personality disorders originate during the childhood years, they may not be diagnosed until adulthood. Some patients, in fact, are not diagnosed until later in life because their symptoms had been modified. Personality tests attempt to measure ones basic personality style and are most used in research or forensic settings to help with clinical diagnoses, two of the most well-known personality tests are the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) and the Rorschach “inkblot test” (Richmond, 2008). Researchers were motivated to uncover unconscious aspects of the psyche, so they devised what is known as projective tests. According to Britannica Online Encyclopedia (2012), a projective test is defined as an examination that commonly employs ambiguous stimuli, notably inkblots and enigmatic pictures to evoke responses that may reveal facets of the subject's personality by projection of internal attitudes, traits, and behavior patterns upon the external stimuli. Projective tests ask individuals to respond to stimulus such as a word...
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...Lifestyles Inventory Assessment Strengths, Weaknesses, & Goal Improvements Arik Seiler arikwynn@yahoo.com GM 591: Leadership and Organizational Behavior Professor Sharolyn Hergott November 4, 2011 After an honest and conscious examination of the self, the Life Styles Inventory has probed my responses to several statements, thereby creating an analytical tool of my personal human behavior and orientations. With these results I am able to assess my strengths and weaknesses, which will allow me to fabricate constructive methods to develop myself into a more refined individual. According to the results, my “primary” thinking style is “Dependent,” depicting a score of 75 and indicating that this style is most representative of me. My “backup” thinking style is “Competitive” with a score of 65. I would have to immediately agree to both results as I am extremely competitive, to the point where at times it is seen as unattractive and exhausting to others. In my current situation, I would have to agree that dependency is up there, however generally I feel that I am highly independent. Being “Competitive” is a trait that has been engrained in me since I was a young child, as it is factored into how I was raised and the culture I was born into – that being a German-style upbringing. Combining this form of culture, being a competitive athlete since the age of five, and with a strict father who expected nothing...
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... Life Style Inventory (LSI) November 9 Part 1 Personal Thinking Styles: Upon my completion of the LSI survey, I have identified my primary and secondary (backup) thinking styles. They are conventional and self-actualizing. My results in the conventional style of thinking have me ranked in the 90th percentile with a raw score of 22. This is my primary thinking style. The conventional thinking style describes individuals who are pretty much set in their ways of doing things. They will tend to have a fixed and unchanging daily routine which they are comfortable with as long as it does not change very much or too often. Conventional thinkers tend to conform to the general rules that are around them, they seldom dispute these rules, and they prefer to follow others orders. A conventional thinker usually does not attract much attention to themselves and will work hard at ‘staying under the radar’ in order to remain in their own comfort zone. I do have many of the qualities of a conventional thinker. So, I can agree with the results from the LSI survey as they characterize me with the conventional thinking style. Having the personality of someone who does not like to change his daily routine and who prides himself with being able to do exactly what is expected both at home and at work are just two of the behaviors that I exhibit within the conventional style of thinking. These...
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...ARTICLE IN PRESS International Journal of Intercultural Relations 28 (2004) 577–594 www.elsevier.com/locate/ijintrel Learning styles and their impact on cross-cultural training: An international comparison in France, Germany and Quebec Christoph I. Barmeyerà ´ IECS—Ecole de Management de Strasbourg/Universite R. Schuman, CESAG (Centre d 0 Etude des Sciences ´es ` ˆt Applique a la Gestion), 61, Ave de la Fore Noire, F 67085 Strasbourg, France Abstract Every person has his or her own individual way to learn and to solve problems in day-to-day situations. These personal cognitive strategies, acquired in a long socialization process are called ‘‘learning styles’’ and may differ depending on gender, age or culture. In this study, the learning styles of over 300 students in business administration in France, Germany and Quebec are examined with the Learning Style Inventory (LSI). Representative and signiï¬cant learning differences where found. This is why the LSI can be used in a ï¬rst step for the illustration and comparison of typical patterns of learning. In a second step the results may be of use to international trainers in making decisions about course design and methods of cross-cultural training in relation to the learning proï¬les of the participants. r 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Keywords: Learning styles; LSI; Culture; Cross-cultural management; Socialization; Intercultural training; Cultural differences; Training methods ÃFax:+33 3 90...
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...into My Learning Style Ben Thiel COLL100 American Military University Professor Corey Tutor Investigation into My Learning Style Throughout life the term “learning style” is used, each individual has a different assumption of the definition mostly the individual takes on a personal stance and states, “I’m an auditory learner, if you say it once I will remember,” whereas others refer to themselves as most commonly visual or kinesthetic students. However, for one to limit themselves to possessing one type of learning style is quite a limitation. I have always considered my learning style to be predominately visual learner. According to Felder & Soloman, (n.d.) there are multiple learning styles aside from the traditional visual, auditory, and kinesthetic. Felder & Soloman (n.d) present eight different learning styles which include; active, reflective, sensing, intuitive, visual, verbal, sequential, and global. Although these styles tend to pull from the traditional three; their definitions give more depth to the characteristics associated with one’s preferred learning style. Felder & Soloman developed a personal questionnaire which allows an individual to answer a series of forty-four questions. Results are given to the individual based on their responses; the scales range from one to eleven in one direction or the other these values compare two learning styles. The numerical value represents the individual’s preference for one learning style verse the opposing...
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...| | 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 240 inventory items, individuals learn exactly where their strengths lie and where they need to focus their development efforts. The results of the self-description are plotted on a circular graph for easy visualization of how the individual thinks and behaves in the 12 LSI styles. This profile acts as a personalized developmental needs assessment, calling attention to the individual's strengths as well as areas needing improvement. My primary thinking style is humanistic – encouraging. My score within this style is in the high area, falling into the 80th percentile. According to the LSI, humanistic people are accepting of themselves and others for who they are. People who use this style are attuned to people’s needs and will focus on counseling and coaching others. They empower their team members to make decisions for themselves and hold themselves accountable for any errors they may make. Scoring high in this style was not a surprise to me. Helping, coaching, and developing people have always been a passion for me. I am...
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...AWARENESS INVENTORY Ethics Awareness Paper Ann Marie Eulo PSYCH/545 Professor Marc Miller, Ph.D. University of Phoenix December12, 2010 Ethics Awareness Inventory Within today’s society, ethics has become invisible among individuals. The meaning of “ethics” has become so complex and hard to pin down because of people’s views about ethics have become shaky (Velasquez, Andre, Shanks, S.J., & Meyer, 2010). Ethics is not all about religion or the law but it does relate to human being’s moral principles on how they conduct themselves of what is right or wrong within society. One aspect of defining ethics refers to moral principles that are standard of right and wrong, in other words it is a continuous effort of our own moral beliefs and values and how we as a human being conduct ourselves in difficult situations in our personal and professional life, and how we control our behavior when faced with difficult conflicts on a daily basis. As human beings we make hasty decisions and mistakes that question our personal and professional ethics. Within this paper, I will interpret my results of the Ethics Awareness Inventory test I took and explain how my results affect my personal and professional life. I will also explain how my education has enlightened and influenced my own ethical viewpoints and decision making. Although my professional life is on hold at this time, I still believe that my ethical standards are valid and true to where others’ interpretations on ethical...
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