[pic] GM 591: Life Styles Inventory – Survey results for John Hastings Instructor: Rick Roechnes Date: 09-JAN-2010 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1.0 Introduction 3 2.0 Personal Thinking Styles (Part I) 3 2.1 Primary thinking & Back up thinking style 4 2.2 Limiting thinking style 4 3.0 Impact on Management Style (Part II) 5 3.1 Planning 5 3.2 Organizing 6 3.3 Leading 6 3.4 Controlling 6 4.0 Genesis of Personal Styles (Part III) 6 5.0 Conclusion
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LSI Assignment After taking the Life Style Inventory (LSI) assessment‚ I have come to realized of the underlying thought patterns that guide an individual’s behavior. This quality of an individual’s thinking and behavior contributes greatly to that person’s work performance. Part I - Personal Thinking Styles My primary thinking style is Self-actualizing and I can totally see myself through the description of this thinking style. The self-actualizing thinkers are characterized by an unusual
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The Life Styles Inventory (LSI) identifies the underlying thoughts and motivations that guide an individual’s behavior. The quality of an individual’s thinking and behavior contributes greatly to that person’s work performance. The Life Styles Inventory (LSI) is based around the Human Synergistic Circumplex‚ describing constructive‚ passive/defensive‚ and aggressive/defensive behaviors. In the LSI‚ the feedback is normed against how 9‚000 individuals have described themselves (LSI 1) and how 5‚000
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For over a decade managers‚ supervisors and psychologists have been using the Life Styles Inventory (LSI)‚ developed by Dr. J. Clayton Lafferty‚ as a diagnostic tool to give individuals feedback as to how they see themselves. The benefit of the LSI allows an individual to better understand how they are and why they are this way. An individual’s performance is affected by both thinking and behavior. Taking the assessment will help pinpoint the persons strengths and weaknesses in order to make positive
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Life Styles Inventory Results Paper Part I: Personal Thinking Styles As revealed by my personal Life Styles Inventory (Figure 1)‚ my primary thinking style and back-up thinking style were Conventional (4 o’clock position) and Affiliative (2 o’clock position) respectively. There are many ways in which both the Conventional thinking style and Affiliative thinking style manifest in my life and work‚ none of which were all that evident until I explored my personal Life Styles Inventory. As stated
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Running head: LIFE STYLES INVENTORY Life Styles Inventory: Oppositional and Power MGMT -570 Personal Thinking Styles My Primary Life Style Inventory score is Dominator at the 97th percentile. Following closely behind is Pragmatist and Self-Empowered being equally high at 95. Fortunately‚ these two scores are a part of the Constructive Scope. Upon review of these three traits I recognize there are trends in the data which lead to my style of leadership and workplace relationships
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LSI Analysis By XXXXXXXXXX For GM591 – Leadership and Organizational Behavior XXXXXx XXXXXX School of Management Contents 1. Introduction 3 2. Personal Thinking Styles 3 3. Impact on Management Style 3 4. Genesis of Personal Style 4 5. Conclusion 4 Appendix: LSI Results - Circumplex and Chart 5 1. Introduction The Life Styles Inventory (LSI) is a self-assessment tool that builds ones self-awareness and serves as a guideline one’s self-improvement. My LSI
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My Life Styles Inventory Leadership and Organizational Behavior GM591 Deena Lampe Keller Graduate School of Management May 19‚ 2010 Timothy S. Mowbray‚ DM My Life Styles Inventory In my Leadership and Organizational Behavior class‚ I had the task of completing a Life Styles Inventory Survey to come up with a self-description of my thinking styles. The goal of this exercise is to find out how thinking styles may influence my behavior as a manager and to help me to determine how to use
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Paper: LSI Self Interpretation A review of the Life Style Inventory Survey did provide valuable and confirmative information about the various aspects of my distinctive thinking and behavioral styles based upon my personal needs and interest. The data analysis did revealed that my “ Humanistic –Encouraging “ style “ with a 40 percentile score was considered my primary thinking style with my back- up style being my “Achievement Style “ where I scored 38 percentile . At work my Humanistic Encouraging
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Life Style Inventory paper a) According to my Circumplex output‚ my dominant personal style would be aggressive oppositional. Indeed‚ I tend to prioritize security over anything. I tend to think a lot before making any kind of decision. I think I have a logic mind and I am hard on myself when I make a mistake. I don’t think I blame others for my own mistakes but I am certain that I have a critical mind which is not necessarily self promoting. My high constructive self actualizing score
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