Lsi Self Description

LSI SELF-DESCRIPTION

Demetria Body

Demetria.Body@yahoo.com

MGMT-591-12037 Leadership & Organizational Behavior

Richard Voyles

May 13, 2013

Self-Description

According to the LSI Internet Edition LSI 1, the Life Style Inventory survey from Human Synergistics International, is a “system that provides a "road map" to properly focus your personal development goals and keep you headed in the direction you want to go. The LSI measures 12 specific styles of patterns of thinking that can either aid or deter a person from achieving his or her potential, which includes Achievement, Self-Actualizing, Humanistic-Encouraging, and Affiliative thinking styles, the Passive/Defensive, which includes Approval, Conventional, Dependent, and Avoidance thinking styles and the Aggressive/Defensive, which includes Oppositional, Power, Competitive, and Perfectionistic thinking styles. This paper will examine my primary & backup thinking styles, one style that I believe may be working against me, one particular style that I would like to improve, the impact my personal styles have on my current or future management style and how my personal styles have been developed due to different roles in my life.

My “primary” (highest percentile score) included two styles under the Passive/Defensive sections, which were the Conventional and Dependent styles and my “backup” (second highest percentile) included two styles, one from the Constructive which is Humanistic-Encouraging style and one from the Passive/Defensive which is the Approval style. According to the LSI Internet LSI 1, “the Conventional style represents a preoccupation with adhering to rules and established procedures, maintaining a low profile, and "blending in" with our particular environment to avoid calling attention to ourselves”. The Dependent style originates in a need for security and self-protection: dependent people typically feel that they have very little control over their lives, according to the LSI...