Leadership & Organizational Behavioral

Darrelle Hooks

Keller University

Leadership & Organizational Behavioral

Life Styles Circumplex

GM 591

Professor Michael Carr

September, 2012

Fall Semester

According to the LSI my "primary" personal thinking style is affiliative at 27% and my backup personal thinking styles are self- actualizing, humanistic, encouraging at 33% and conventional at 19% a ranging from medium to high. However when I look at my personal and professional life this is somewhat exactly how I see myself with my family and friends; reflecting self-enhancing thinking and behavior that contribute to one's level of satisfaction, ability to develop healthy relationships and work effectively with people, and proficiency at accomplishing tasks. In addition, The LSI assignment gave me a chance to see on paper what behavioral and thinking styles I use more of on a daily basis and where I rank compared to others who have taken the same survey. My primary constructive style is affiliate, which fell into the medium percentile

range, and the one that I scored the most on in any category. My next highest ranking style is humanistic-encouraging, then self-actualizing, and last was achievement at the lowest percentile. Then for my back-up personal thinking style in the Passive/Defensive category dependent is the one that is the highest scoring. The next highest is approval, and then conventional and last is avoidance. I believe that some of the rankings for the constructive style category are pretty accurate in the way that I think and behave at work, as well as in my personal life with the affiliative style showing up as my highest raw score, that really doesn't surprise me because I think people are more important; I try my best to be available to answer questions, and provide the most help I can offer. I am also not surprised that humanistic-encouraging shows up as my next highest because it goes hand and hand with the affiliative style in being a leader, thinking people are worth more, and trying to bring out the best in others.

What I was most shocked over was how low both self-actualizing and achievement scored. I am not sure that I totally agree with the results. I believe that my scoring should have been a little higher on both. As far as self-actualizing I believe it should have been more medium to high because I know who I am, what I stand for, and I don't put myself in situations where I jeopardize my integrity.