How is your Thinking Style impacting your leadership potential and life satisfaction?

The center of our Leadership Practices Framework is the domain of Personal Leadership. The purpose of this domain is to:

 ‘role model leadership practices and demonstrate constructive interactions.’

Role-modeling leadership behaviors and adapting our practices to different circumstances requires self-insight.

The big question is how do we gain that self-insight?

At the University of Auckland, Melanie led an initiative for over 475 academic and professional staff to complete the Life Styles Inventory™ (LSI) with personalized coaching for several years. The purpose was for these key people to gain self-insight so that they could enhance their leadership as well as their life satisfaction.

The outcome was a positive impact at the personal leadership level, as well as at the organizational level, with increased engagement.

Using the Life-Style Inventory™ (LSI 1) with professional coaching helps to lay a strong foundation for effective leadership.

What is the Life Styles Inventory™ (LSI 1)?

The Life Styles Inventory™ (LSI) distinguishes and measures 12 key thinking patterns, or styles, that are either effective or ineffective. These styles represent specific ways in which we choose to think and behave and are represented on a circumplex.

The Circumplex is a circular graph that measures the LSI 12 distinct styles of thinking, behavior, and interaction. It clusters these into three general Styles as shown in the diagram below:

• Constructive
• Passive/Defensive
• Aggressive/Defensive.

Possible Results

Using the information received from the LSI Circumplex, you can create personal change through:

• Identifying the unique thinking patternsthat characterise your current behavior.
• Understanding which of your thinking patterns are effective, which are not and why.

Some of the longer-term individual tangible results include:

• Improved effectiveness in your role
• Greater capacity to cope with pressure, stress and change
• Improved ability to achieve individual goals
• Enhanced flexible and creative thinking
• Improved interpersonal relationships
• Increased personal effectiveness

Who is the LSI designed for?

The LSI assessment is designed for executives, leaders, managers, and people in professional and technical roles.

LSI 1 (self-description): You self- assess your thinking styles, personal effectiveness and satisfaction at work and home using the Human Synergistics digital platform.

LSI 2 (others’ descriptions): Up to 12 of your peers, managers and/or direct reports provide confidential feedback on your behaviour and effectiveness. The results will identify your confirmed strengths, unrecognised strengths, blind spots and stumbling blocks.

The data collected from your assessments are processed electronically and compared to a global norm group.

Working with your accredited LSI coach 

Firstly, your coach will have a conversation about your current situation and what you are wanting to achieve in the personal and professional aspects of your life. This will help to determine whether the LSI 1 or LSI 1 & 2 assessment program is better suited to help you achieve your aspirations.

Your accredited Human Synergistics coach will help you interpret your confidential report from your online LSI 1 assessment. Together you will:

• Decide which thinking and behaviour patterns you want to change to be more effective
• Define optimal ways of thinking and approaching your work
• Set targeted improvement objectives
• Create specific strategies to bring about personal change

 Book your free Step 1 Coaching Introduction to determine if this program suits you.

Your Investment:

Single payment option:          $810.00 USD 

(New Zealand participants to add 15% GST)