Michael Paine thepainer@wi.rr.com GM591 Leadership and Organizational Paper May 12, 2012 LSI Paper Personal Thinking Skills As I was going through my LSI and answering the questions, I was very surprised by my results and in some areas not so surprised. I am starting a new job, whole different career, being out of a job since February. I also am under a completely different schedule, so was transitioning my body to working a different hours than what
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Life Style Inventory: My Self-Description Personal Thinking Style Primary and Back up thinking Style: As per the LSI results my Primary thinking style is “Approval” (98 percentile) and back up style is “Humanistic –Encouraging” (93 percentile). But I don’t think I am absolutely following these styles for all the situations. There are several instances in my life where my thinking patterns are varied. I think I have adopted this thinking style from my parents and cultural roots. Hindu culture
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The LSI which is stands for life styles inventory is a test that measures how you think and behave. When I took the test and received my scores I was shocked with some of the results that I got, and I thought to myself there is no way that some of these words are describing me and definitely not in the percentile that I placed into for example, avoidance I never would consider myself as a person who avoids anything whether it is something good or bad. However, when I studied my results some more
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Life Styles Inventory Research Paper MGMT591 Leadership & Organizational Behavior Dr. Anne Hallcom July 22, 2012 Part I: Personal Thinking Styles Based on the information presented in the survey, it is clear to see that my primary personal thinking style is my affiliative style. The reason behind this is that I primarily like to make certain that I have support, if it is academic related, work related, or even related to my personal life. My capability to build these types of relationships
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------------------------------------------------- Life Styles Survey Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2. Personal Thinking Styles 3. Impact on Management Style 4. Genesis of Personal Styles 5. Conclusion My “Life Styles Circumplex” profile is surprising to me on many items. My primary thinking style is dependent and my backup is approval. I would guess my styles would have included perfectionist, humanistic or achievement- oriented style as a primary or back-up. I am an “over thinker”
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PERSONAL THINKING STYLES After completion of the Life Styles Inventory Assessment, it was determined that my primary thinking style is oppositional. I ranked in the 87th percentile in this category. An oppositional person tends to disagree with others and seek attention by being critical and cynical. Some of the characteristics of an oppositional individual are asking probing questions, being argumentative, having a negative attitude, and a sarcastic sense of humor. I was actually shocked with
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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
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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
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of Life Style Inventory GM591 Leadership and Organizational Behavior Part I: Personal Thinking Styles After completing the LSI, the scores revealed that my primary thinking style, with a percent style of 90 percent, was Affiliative 2 o’clock position. The LSI describes Affiliative individuals as thriving and feeling comfort when in a group setting, valuing relationships in both a personal and business level, genuinely caring for others and motivating others to thrive. This style also lies
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names require our brains to store new information. "Learning is...... knowledge or skills acquired through study or by being taught. As cited in the English Oxford Dictionary. 23/10/09 How we all learn depends on our own personal learning style which will be discussed further on. Learning never stops, and is done on a daily basis. Learning on a personal level helps you to gain self confidence allowing you to become more knowledgeable and competent at doing new things. You gain a wider
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