Life Styles Inventory

Life Styles Inventory

The Life Styles Inventory (LSI) identifies the underlying thoughts and motivations that guide an individual's behavior. The quality of an individual's thinking and behavior contributes greatly to that person's 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