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Life Style Inventory
LIFE STYLES INVENTORY (LSI) SURVEY
Nutchanart Ponim
Keller Graduate School of Management
MGMT 591: Leadership and Organizational Behavior
Instructor
Allen Rodriguez
Date
3/15/2015
The LSI has helped me assess and provided me feedback on my thinking and behavioral patterns, which I can change in order to develop themselves alongside many dimensions, including my ability to understand and manage my emotions.
The LSI chart indicates that my primary thinking style is (23, 99%) raw score and percentile respectively. Most people with the avoidance style are not assertive toward their own goal and neither are they helpful when helping to solve issues. They like to avoid issues. Management and leadership would be difficult for them since leadership require people who like solving issues. I would agree with the first perception that I am not assertive. I am not assertive with matters that concern a group decision making, thus I tend to be a bit laid back. I always wait for other people to make all decisions. I feel like the avoidance thinking style describes me when it comes to a group leadership and management. I am usually more concerned with other people opinion and right to make decision. Therefore, this has held me from being assertive in the area of leadership and management.
However, I would disagree with the second perception of the avoidance thinking style; that people with avoidance thinking style are not assertive toward their goals. I am usually assertive when it comes to making decisions that affect lifetime goals. I have always made decisions that affect my life goals in order to achieve my objectives. Knowing that failure to make decision on time may affect progress has made me come up with an effective ways in which I can make decisions so that I can pursuing my goals. For example, when I am faced with dilemma situation, I have a decision evaluating criteria that I use so that I can adopt the best decision. Therefore, I believe that I am assertive when it comes to making my personal decision.
According to the lifestyle inventory, chart power is my secondary (20, 93%) raw score and percentile respectively. Power is ability to influence people perform tasks in a certain way. Power often makes processes stable and more predictable. Using power make the system reliable. However, using power only makes the system reliable for a short time. People need to have control of what they are doing, thus allowing them to make decision in their work processes is often a more reliable method of leadership and management style in an organization. I disagree with the results of the chart that I use power to influence people behavior. Upon realizing the effect of using power to influence people behavior I have changed my perspective I am now more accommodating when it comes to allowing people to make their own decision. This is in accordance to my primary thinking style, avoidance. I am more reserved when I have to make decision that affects other people. Therefore, power as my secondary thinking style does not correlate with my primary thinking style.
Surprisingly, Humanistic-Encouraging is my limiting thinking style; this is one of the major factors that is part of successful leadership. A humanistic-Encouraging is composed of a leadership that encourages participation. Organization’s members are expected to be supportive and to assist other members and open to influence their dealings with one another.
The LSI chart shows that I got (23, 14%) raw score and percentile respectively, which indicates that I have a problem in this area. Therefore, failure to have humanistic encouraging may indicate that I might not be helpful to other people in the an organizational setting this is a major drawback in leadership and management. It means that I cannot work effectively in a group setting; humanistic encouraging style of thinking is major contributor to achievement of goals and objective of the group. Inadequacy in these skills may prevent me from managing a project effectively.
Planning
I am not good at planning. This is because I like to avoid making of decisions that would affect other people. I am a laid-back person; I allow other people make decisions. Thus, I hate a situation where I have to make decisions. Therefore, I am not an effective in planning for projects. I cannot be relied upon to plan for projects.
Organizing
I have no capacity to organize a project. First, I do not like taking initiative to make decisions. Organization requires a person who is assertive enough to make sure that the project runs smoothly. Secondly, I do not have humanistic encouraging skills; these skills require a person to be helpful of other members in the project. This would be a major drawback to the organizing a project.
Leading
As it turned out that I do not have humanistic encouraging skills. It is therefore, not effective for me to be a leader in a project. Leadership requires a person to an example to the rest members of the project. The project would not be successful when I am a leader. Lack of humanistic encouraging skills affects my ability to lead in a project.
Controlling
The fact that I do not like influencing the behavior of other people it thus results to ineffectiveness to control the outcome of the project. Controlling requires a person to be assertive in making decision of a group. Since, I have avoidance style of thinking in a group setting; it thus means I would not be effective in controlling.
Genesis of Personal Style.
Over the years I have undergone through various stages, I have therefore acquired attributes through those stages. My culture did develop power personal thinking style. My culture encourage people assert their influence on other people so that they can have thing done. This however changed as became more mature since I realized that manipulating people all the time is a short-term strategy. My avoidance personal style was developed when I was in high school. Mostly, it developed because, I choose not to make decision-affecting people, and this is because my age mates did not like being made decision for by person of the same age bracket.
Conclusion and Reflection
According to the LSI chart, my primary personal style is avoidance and the secondary is power however, I have managed to shake it off. Therefore, this skill show that I am not able to lead due to lack of important personality attributes and management skills. My long life journey is a reason why I have acquired these styles. I am taking this course to learn management skills and I hoping that MGMT591 will help me develop more in leadership skills such as humanistic encouraging.
LSI Results
