Life Styles Inventory
Essay title: Life Styles Inventory
Life Styles Inventory
The Life Styles Inventory (LSI) identifies the underlying thoughts and motivations that guide an individuals behavior. The quality of an individuals thinking and behavior contributes greatly to that persons 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 individuals have been described by 25,000 others (LSI 2). (LSI Human Synergistic www.human-synergistic.com)
Part I- Personal Thinking Styles
Your LSI Styles Circumplex
“Primary” and “Backup” Thinking Styles
The above illustration shows my different styles, I am strongest in the Aggressive/Defensive Styles category. Power, Oppositional, Competitive, and perfectionistic are my strengths in the illustration.
My primary personal thinking style is Power (8 O’ clock position). This measure on how demanding and controlling