Lsi Example Essay

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Life Styles Inventory: Instructor to Management May 11, 2012 Introduction: When a person makes the choice to move their life into management the use of tools, discussion and self reflection are crucial to making the proper growth as a person. The Life Styles Inventory (LSI) assessment exercise is a self evaluation survey that measures various thinking and behavioral patterns within the bounds of the test taker. The LSI has 3 core areas of styles, an axis of people centric/task orientation and an axis of needs. The results from the LSI assessment pinpoints my strong and weak attributes, and provide suggestions on how to improve on less desired traits and develop a plan of action to improve by making choices to increase constructive styles, while decreasing passive/aggressive defensive styles. While using this tool and having conversation with my family certain realizations where proven to be very beneficial to my growth. Position | Style | Score | Percentile | 1 | Humanistic-Encouraging | 37 | 90 | 2 | Affiliative | 29 | 46 | 3 | Approval | 12 | 44 | 4 | Conventional | 10 | 20 | 5 | Dependent | 17 | 63 | 6 | Avoidance | 9 | 70 | 7 | Oppositional | 9 | 63 | 8 | Power | 5 | 42 | 9 | Competitive | 15 | 65 | 10 | Perfectionistic | 24 | 75 | 11 | Achievement | 33 | 63 | 12 | Self-Actualizing | 32 | 70 | Part 2: Impact on Management Style: My primary management style is Humanistic-Encouraging style and secondary of Perfectionist Style, that reflects with my last contract that I performed in Beirut, Lebanon. I was a Curriculum Developer and Lead Instructor meaning that I analyzed the needs of the students, designed module training system, implemented training programs and evaluated students for future educational needs. My evaluations where based on my students and assistant instructors level of performance. A zero-defect
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