Life Styles Inventory Circumplex Essay

Life Styles Inventory Circumplex

Part I. Personal Thinking Styles

Upon receiving this project, I immediately began to worry about a survey that would seek to determine how strong of a leader I would be. I cowered at the fact of coming up with either false information or information I felt was less than perfect. I think that this fear alone, confirms my primary style. My primary style is that of Self-Actualization. Self-Actualized individuals seek to always become all that we can with the talents and knowledge we have. We tend to be creative and like to live in the moment. We bring almost a refreshing perspective to most situations and have a continuous intrinsic drive for self-development. I see this style manifested in myself on

Even though, it can be beneficial to always seek perfection in what you do, it can just as often be limiting. I feel that this style sometimes causes me to place too much undue stress on myself in an attempt to always do things perfectly. It causes me to worry more about everything being correct as opposed to getting the most done that I can. This is a behavior that I would like to change, so I can become more productive. I have a problem weighing out what is most important, Quantity or Quality of production. It also places an enormous amount of pressure on the people around me, as I feel that if I can hold myself up to this standard, others should be able to join me! As a manager, this style could be detrimental because forcing employees to live up to a standard of perfection all the time could create an environment where they feel as though mistakes aren’t allowed. I think employees would be less inclined to ask questions and share concerns or mistakes. I think it would also be hard to get employees to perform up to the level I expect because their personal style may be one that doesn’t aim for the same level of perfection. Placing an outrageous amount of pressure on my employees, would almost certainly cause them to feel that my goals could never be met anyway, so why

With my primary and backup styles both being Constructive Styles (based on the LSI Styles Circumplex), they would have a positive impact on an organization or group nearly every time. I think my personal styles and styles of management would help me foster an atmosphere of open-mindedness and flexibility. I think I would bring a goal-oriented approach with creative and innovative ways of achieving them. As a confident and internally motivated manager, it would be fairly easy to empower my group and lead by example. My limiting style could have a lot of positive affects and compliment my other styles, but I think that surely, this style would have to be the most evaluated of the three. The Perfectionistic side of me would be an aspect of my management that I would likely have to keep under control on a daily