Life Styles Inventory
Presentation
Strengthening
Organizations
through
Individual
Effectiveness
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S + T = R Process
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Stimulus
• Event
• Circumstance
• Situation
Thought
• Conscious
• Unconscious
=
Response
• Appropriate
• Inappropriate
How we think about/interpret situations influences
our reaction/response.
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Benefits of Completing the
LSI
• Deeper Understanding of Self
• Identify Personal Strengths and Development
Needs
• Learn Benefits of Improving Thinking and
Behavior
• Learn How to Make Positive and
Constructive Changes
• Plan What to Change
• Learn How to Initiate Change
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Instructions for Responding
Read each item and, using
the response options,
determine the extent to
which each item describes
you. Consider each word
or phrase separately. Be
as open and accurate about
yourself as possible.
__ humanistic
• Use a “2” if the word is
Like you most of the time.
• Use a “1” if the word is
Like you quite often.
• Use a “0” if the word is
Essentially unlike you.
__ develops others
__ thinks of others
__ enjoys teaching
__ makes others
others
think for themselves
__ understanding
__ good teacher
__ supportive of
others
__ thoughtful
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Scoring Sheet Instructions
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Add up the numbers in the boxes •
marked A through E and put the
total in the box marked
SUBTOTAL.
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Do the same for the entire sheet,
filling up all the SUBTOTAL boxes.
Now add the 4 SUBTOTALS
across each page to get the total
score for each “clock” position. Put
those numbers in the boxes
marked TOTAL for each position.
Transfer the TOTAL scores to the
corresponding clock position on
the Circumplex.
To understand the profile you
have just completed, read the LSI
Self-Development Guide. This
information will help you
understand how your scores
reflect the way you think and
behave.
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Life Styles Circumplex
Self-Description
91-99th
HIGH
76-89th
51-74th
MEDIUM
26-49th
11-24th
1-9
LOW
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Percentile Score Description
90% score below this point
10% score above this point
HIGH
75% score below this point
25% score above this point
50% score below this point
50% score above this point
MEDIUM
25% score below this point
75% score above this point
10% score below this point
90% score above this point
HIGH
MEDIUM
LOW
LOW
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Satisfaction vs. Security Needs
Higher Order
Needs
Satisfaction
Lower Order
Needs
Security
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Task vs. People Orientation
Task-Centered
People-Centered
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Constructive Styles
• Achievement
• Self-Actualizing
• HumanisticEncouraging
• Affiliative
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Passive/Defensive Styles
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Approval
Conventional
Dependent
Avoidance
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Aggressive/Defensive Styles
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Oppositional
Power
Competitive
Perfectionistic
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Change Process
Action
Acceptance
Awareness
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Life Styles Circumplex
Description by Others
91-99th
76-89th
HIGH
51-74th
26-49th
MEDIUM
11-24th
1-9
LOW
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LSI-1/LSI-2
Normal Differences
LSI-1
Self Description
LSI-2
Description by Others
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Illustrative LSI-1/LSI-2
Profiles
Self Description
Description by Others
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Life Styles Inventory Profiles
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12
1
11
11
10
2
9
1
10
3
2
9
3
4
8
4
8
7
5
7
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Successful Chairman of the Board of a
Highly Profitable/Innovative Public Unity
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6
Corporation Presidents who
Failed in Their Jobs
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Outcomes Associated with the
Life Styles Inventory
Personal Orientation
Passive/
Aggressive/
Defensive Constructive Defensive
Factor
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Salary
+
0
--
•
Organizational Level
+
+
--
•
Managerial Effectiveness
0
++
0
•
Interest in Self Improvement
--
++
+
•
Quality of Interpersonal Relations
--
+
++
•
Psychological/
Physiological Health
--
++
-
•
Problem-Solving Effectiveness
-
+
-
Key: + indicates positive significant relationship
0 indicates non-significant relationship
- indicates negative significant relationship
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Most Effective Employees
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12
1
11
1
11
10
10
2
9
3
2
9
3
4
8
4
8
7
5
7
6
5
6
Self Description
Description by Others
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Composite Profile
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Human Synergistics’
Diagnostic System
Organizations
Groups
Others
Self
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