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 measured by the LSI are related to a number of indicators of effectiveness and success, including leadership effectiveness, management effectiveness, problem solving effectiveness
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A Life Styles Inventory Awakening The Life Styles Inventory (LSI) Self-Description helps individuals recognize certain thinking styles within themselves to help better understand how they can improve in personal and professional relationships. Each of the 12 styles are given a number from 1-12 and are arranged in a circular graph much like a clock. The styles are then grouped into three distinct categories: Construction Styles, Passive/Defensive Styles and Aggressive/Defensive Styles. After taking
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Introduction the organization being discussed is a Foster Care Agency located in Detroit, Michigan. This organization provides foster care services to neglected and abuse children throughout Wayne County of Michigan. The goal of Foster Care is to give a child a home and a family to care for him/her until he/she is either returned to his/her birth parents or adopted. Foster Care is a part of a process that leads to a permanent home for a child. If a child is a temporary ward of the court, then the
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Psychology, Other - Year 2 Person-Centered model of helping Prepare a response on a Person-Centered model of helping. I need suggestions, information and ideas for each section in this task to help get me started. TASK: You must integrate your learning from the course and discuss how and why you have, at this point in your development, formed your viewpoint(s). Your response must include the following elements: 1. Presentation of the Person-Centered model 2. Your view of helping
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cognitive, existential, and humanistic theories. * What is constructive alternativism? People are free to construe reality any way they want: no one is bound by one’s biography. * How is it related to Vaihinger and Adler? Propositional thinking * What is the fundamental postulate? A person’s processes are psychologically channelized by the ways in which he/she anticipates events. People as scientists. * What are the 11 corollaries? * Construction – a person anticipates
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Memphis Latchison III Leadership and Organization GM591 LSI Paper GM 591 According to the LSI, my Primary personal thinking style is AFFILIATIVE at 93% and my Backup personal thinking styles are SELF-ACTUALIZING, HUMANISTIC-ENCOURAGING, and CONVENTIONAL. All of these three are at 90%. I agreed with these results. When I look at my personal and professional life, this is exactly how I see myself. With my family and friends, I am seen as an “encourager”, someone who is always believing
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five-factor model, humanistic, and social cognitive. The psychodynamic perspective branched out from Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theory. It emphasizes the role of the unconscious mind in the development of personality. It focuses on the idea that people have defense mechanisms, personality is largely dependent on one’s sexual impulses, and that the past is important. There are several advantages and disadvantages associated with this theory. Some advantages are that one will recognize the importance
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especially those distinguishing personal characteristics that make one socially appealing (Farflex, 2013).” “Personality is a pattern of relatively permanent traits and unique characteristics that give both consistency and individuality to a person’s behavior (Feist & Feist, 2009).” Traits influence the individual differences in behavior, the stability of behavior over time, and the reliability of the behavior through the majority of situations. Characteristics are the exclusive qualities of an individual
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followed by avoidance as my limiting style. All four styles placed me in the Passive/Defensive personal thinking category with People Orientation and Security as my primary needs. According to the LSI Style profile the Passive/Defensive style represent a “self-protecting thinking and behavior that promote the fulfillment of security needs through interaction with people”. I am somewhat surprised that the survey result closely captured my primary thinking style. I think I can attribute my dependent
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company markets around 60 pharmaceutical products with 90,000 employees worldwide. ABC has a culture that breeds achievements and focuses on core values like Integrity, Innovation, Customer focus, Collaboration, Leadership, Performance, and Respect for people. Company’s mission statement is “We will become most valued company to patients, customers, colleagues, investors, business partners and communities where we work and live.” Current Culture Organizational culture is system of shared actions, values
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