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 240 inventory items, 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 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. Part I: Personal Thinking Styles (primary, backup, limiting) According to my LSI profile shows my primary style is achievement. My backup thinking style is dependent. My backup style was closely followed by avoidance. Refer to attachment “A” The LSI . My limiting style appears to be is two fold. dependent and avoidance. It illustrates that these two “limit” my self-actualization and achievement percentages. I do not find myself to be overly defensive or aggressive when dealing with individuals. I tend to listen more to what people have to say. This result was not new to me. avoidance and dependent evidently are the areas that are causing me not to excel. According to the LSI information provided, when your achievement score is greater and the humanistic-encouraging and affiliative scores are less, a concern for task accomplishment will diminish a concern need for others. Evidently this imbalance is reducing my overall effectiveness. When I put this under my microscope, I find that this charact... ... middle of paper ... ...te achiever I need to lead by example, and encourage individuals to give their best effort on every project. Although I am a limited self-starter I must learn to communicate more realistic performance standard/goals and promote teammate input. As I continue to study Leadership and Organizational Behavior, I hope to change my thinking style that is geared to personal effectiveness. Limit my passive / dependent styles and obtain more constructive styles. The Life Styles Inventory from Human Synergistics International was a good wake up call, and offer a way to change your profile. The Challenge of Change section in the LSI will enable me to document a self-improvement plan utilizing my LSI profile. With this, my change suggestions and self-improvement plan will give me a guided direction to properly focus my personal development goals on the way I need to go.
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Allport, a pillar of personality psychology, defined personality through individual traits, a relatively permanent characteristic, existence of which can be verified scientifically through empirical or statistical analysis (Allport, 1931). He used a lexical approach to identify thousands dispositions that can describe an individual, and organized them into three major categories: cardinal (dominant), central (common), and secondary (unique) traits. Allport’s advised that while traits have a universal aspect, they should be examined and explained with caution and artistry. Interpretations of behavioral variance should consider both contextual circumstances and possibility of coexisting contradictory traits in one individual. He further suggested that patterns and...
Aside from cultural leadership, my style relates to the attributes of a transformative leader. Through analyses of the Bell Curve, Leadership Behavior, and Motivation assessments, I had a strong need to see others succeed. I see college as a transformative experience and the front desk position is able to give students the qualities to be successful after college. I inspire my employees to share my vision and help them understand the reasons behind my values. I show personal integrity, self-confidence, and optimism for the future. Though these qualities I transform the organization with a more effective team.
Jerad Davies is the leader of Learning Team C for Organizational Leadership. Lena Moore, Michael Paulley, Nicole Presser, and Paul Frisbee also exist as members of Learning Team C. All members of Learning Team C have taken a DISC behavioral assessment. Jerad Davies processes a dominance style, with sub-style of a producer (Alessandra, The DISC Platinum Rule Behavioral Style Assessment for Jerad Davies, 1996-2010). Paul Frisbee also has a dominant style, and a sub-style of producer (Alessandra, The DISC Platinum Rule Behavioral Style Assessment for Paul Frisbee, 1996-2010). Lena Moore possesses a predominantly cautious style, with the sub-style of the perfecter (Alessandra, The DISC Platinum Rule Behavioral Style Assessment for Lena Moore, 1996-2010). Nicole Presser has a predominantly interactive style, with the sub-style of the impresser (Alessandra, The DISC Platinum Rule Behavioral Style Assessment for Nicole Presser, 1996-2010). Michael Pau...
Who are we? How do we think and behave? What is the impact of our thinking and behaving style? How do we change how we think and behave? These are questions that we experience as we look develop or grow as leaders. The Life Styles Inventory™ (LSI) is a tool to help answer these questions and develop a plan to address. It is a survey that measures the connection between thinking and behaving and its impact on performance. (LSI, 2015). It is used to identify a person’s strengths and improvement areas focusing on beliefs, values, behaviors and assumptions about yourself. Upon completion of the survey, it offers suggestions on how to improve or change the style to benefit themselves, others, and their organization.
The mission to carry out a considerable quantity of evaluations and hypothetical discussions to encounter specific styles or features inclined towards a lucrative approach to implement leadership styles in an organization (Oliver, 2006). As stated by Adair in the year 1998, learning from theories does not make an individual a successful leader, however, his own will and personal motivation leads him to become a successful leader and get your hands on the expertise firmly (Adair , 1998).
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 "Perfectionist", "Conventional", "Power" and "Competitive" styles of life. I strongly agree with this. I've always went about things with those things in mind. I can honestly say that for every decision I made will take those "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, makes mistakes and do not conform to the rules of the game, then I do not believe that you can succeed in whatever your goals are. You will be in competition with those that will willingly take advantage of you. Losing will hurt and some say you learn by losing, I like to learn by winning.
Over the process of working on this assignment, I completed several personal development measures from the Self Assessment Library by Stephen P. Robbins. After completing my first few measures, I realized a trend that was occurring. All my answers and explanations related back to one important factor, motivation. Motivation is defined as “the intensity, direction, and persistence of effort a person shows in reaching a goal” (Mann, pg. 300).
Management and leadership, what exactly is it? What is my management and leadership style? In the paper I will complete a series of questionnaires to determine my personal style. Part one will examine conceptual skills, human skills, technical skills, new style management style, and old management style. Part two will examine personal goals and SWAT analysis. Part three will examine the four different aspects of personal management style. This will include personal decision styles, delegation versus perfectionist, organic versus mechanistic organizational structure, and the five subscales of HR management. Part four will examine four different aspects of my personal management style, Jung’s typology, the task
In taking the leadership style inventories, it was not surprising to see the results. After completing almost thirty years in education, the results revealed the use of several styles in my leadership role. The Leadership Legacy results indicated that I was tied on two types of styles. They were Truth-Seeker and Experienced Guide. Tied again for one point less were Ambassador and People Mover. One less point again revealed Creative Builder. My lowest area was Advocate. I thought this assessment was close to my own perceptions. As a Truth-Seeker, I value fairness and I try to use best judgment in handling challenges. I am process oriented, and I try to remain neutral and objective in dealing with issues. In the Experienced Guide leadership style, I have helped numerous colleagues problem-solve situations. I listen and provide several options in dealing with a situation. I keep a confidence. The next areas, Ambassador and People Mover are another part of my personality in the workplace. In the library environment, I have to work with everyone in a variety of situations and make it a win-win whenever possible. As a People Mover, I have had several opportunities to mentor new teachers and new librarians. Another style that I had strength in is the Creative Builder. I am someone who needs to change. I had the opportunity to help restructure the upper grades in a school to include a 3-4-5 multi-age grade level. Researching, developing and selling this concept took a lot of work. My weakest area in this leadership assessment was the Advocate. As the librarian, I tend to stay behind the scenes in a more service-oriented role. This year, I am a district library leadership team member and this has given me an opportunity to work on my advo...
Shahar, G. (2006). An Investigation of the Perfectionism/Self-criticism Domain of the Personal Style Inventory. Cogn Ther Res.
Do you think you know yourself well enough? I would say “Yes” and “NO”. My awareness of behavior is separated into observable and unconscious. Observable is thoughts that I realize and acceptable. Unconscious are thoughts those are not easy to be accepted by my personality, so I ignore the existence of it, but it still can be recognized from my behavior. Life Style Inventory (LSI) is an evaluation test of 12 measurements to assist people to have more knowledge about each style and understand what styles they belong to. Also, it contains the purpose of self-improvement. It shows the positive and negative of each style and how to enhance to the way they want.
Personality Theories The Big Five Approach plays a major role in the process of understanding and analyzing a child’s outcome, as well as any adjustment issues that may occur during a child’s development. Along with these accomplishments, the Big Five approach has proven to be able to cover children, adolescents, and adults under one spectrum (Van den Akker et al., 2013). The article, “The development of personality extremity from childhood to adolescence: relations to internalizing and externalizing problems” provides an intense amount of information on personality theories and goes into depth about how personalities develop and how to distinguish between them as well. This study not only incorporated the study of personality extremity throughout childhood and adolescence, but the issues between personality extremities and personality adjustments as well (Van den Akker et al., 2013).
Having completed the Myers-Briggs Personality Test previously, I was identified as an INTP, which stands for introverted, intuitive, thinking, and perceiving. Accordingly, this personality is often labeled as “The Architect” or “The Logician.” Despite my previous results, I repeated the test as instructed in the assignment. Consequently, based on the outcome of the test, my personality has altered in the past year. Thus, my updated results based on this analysis were, INTJ (introverted, intuitive, thinking, and judging). However, the two personalities are similar, as only one trait seems to have varied. Therefore, instead of holding a characteristic grounded in perception, it would appear that I am inclined to mannerisms that indicate
There are many people in this world; no two people are the same. When considering personality theories it is important to note that not all theories apply to all situations or all people. Different theories have different approaches. It is important to know the person before making assumptions about the proper theory to apply to the person or in any given situation. The purpose of this paper is to analysis how different personality theorists could interoperate different individual circumstances and behaviors based on case examples provided by the instructor.