Lsi Paper Leadership and Organizational

LSI Paper   Leadership and Organizational Behavior Anne Peters 07/21/2012 My primary thinking style with the highest percentile is being competitive at 99 percentile. I actually never realized this aspect about my thinking style but now it all makes sense. In the past I have been so busy winning and showing other people losing that I totally forgot to pay attention on my own performance, I guess glory isn’t that important, what really important is how I achieved it.At home, I’ll always be busy competing with the siblings and at work I was always comparing myself to others, hence not paying attention on my performance. My Secondary thinking style is my Affiliative thinking style at 96 percentile. I totally agree with this as I do pay a lot of emphasis on relationships. I am very warm and open about meeting and interacting with new people from different cultural backgrounds and have a keen interest in learning different languages. This thinking style helped me develop g ood interpersonal skills.At home I have great relationship with my parents and siblings. At work I am always deemed as the favorite manager I am very understanding and friendly. My limiting thinking style would be avoidance-thinking style; I believe instead of dealing with the problems I usually walk away from them, which is not a good trait. A problem must be solved instead of letting it lingering in the back of your mind. I may be overly hard on myself. When I make a mistake, it is especially difficult for myself to forgive myself and move on.This can result in a fear of failure, and the feeling that I must avoid situations that carry the risk of personal defeat. I typically refrain from examining and expressing feelings, which could signal a more general pattern of withdrawal. For example in the past I have turned small problems into huge problems overtime since I didn’t feel like tackling them then and there. I had relationship problems and money problems because of my av oidance thinking style.In 2006 I was moving out of my uncle’s house and things went sour in between his family and mine, but since I was young and reckless I completely ignored the problem instead of dealing with it, later on the problem was huge and couldn’t be tackled anymore and till this day I have weirdness involved when meeting up with his family. Impact of my personal styles on my management style: Planning: When it comes to planning my competitive, perfectionist and achievement thinking style play a big role. Planning requires being competitive, you make sure whatever you are planning is worthy enough and efficient.Perfectionist thinking style helps it to be without flaws and no room for errors. Achievement style helps me to be somewhat confident and easily able to meet challenges. Organizing: Again the perfectionist plays a big role in organizing also. The humanistic style helps me in guiding other people towards organization and guiding them and supporting th eir effort. I feel organizing is not the strongest management area for me and I need to work on this skill. Leading: The thinking style of self-actualization, competitive, and power, plays a huge role in helping me lead.I am pretty self-actualized, which means I am really comfortable with myself and who I am. For being a leader one needs to be competitive otherwise you can’t lead if you have the mentality of â€Å"if we lose that’s ok, it’s more like no! We got to win! † I like being in charge and in control of a situation, it’s very typical of me, the sense of being independent makes me comfortable in a leading position. I believe in leading by example style of management, instead of telling people what to do a manager needs to show them how it’s done and then audit to make sure they are just as good as you or your best employee.Controlling: The power, competitive and humanistic thinking style plays a huge role of me being controlling in my work environment. A manager must manage, to be in control one needs to earn respect of their employees, to do so you need to work with them and not against them. Once you earn their trust, they will probably perform the same way whether you are supervising them or not. To be in control you don’t have to be a power hungry manager who always thinks he’s right, but more of a understanding people at their level and culture manager.It’s easy to get into employee’s comfort zone even if you know one thing about their language, ethnicity or culture. Once the barrier is down they respect you and controlling them becomes a lot easier. Genesis: I develop all this thinking style at quite an early stage; I was 21 when I first moved from Karachi, Pakistan to Chicago, United States. Since the beginning I was working a management position in a fast food restaurant and going to school because I wanted to and there was no obligation. The competiveness was there but as I w orked the management position I developed numerous other thinking styles.The self actualized and humanistic style was developed with the helped of my parents; they brought me up with a lot of love and made me feel confident about every decision that I wanted to make. Having parents like mine makes a huge difference in one’s thinking style. I worked as a general manager at a fast food restaurant for quite a while and then was hired as a creative designer and HR for a new concept restaurant that was serving Lebanese food. This opportunity helped me polish my Humanistic, competitive, perfectionist and achievement thinking styles even more.And recently I moved to southern California to start another concept restaurant by leaving everything behind and taking another major change in my life hence making me a big risk taker. Overall I am pretty satisfied with my LSI results, although I have realized there are aspects I really need to work on, but then again nobody is perfect. The ar eas that I need to work on are: Conventional: I really need to follow my heart and Ideas more than just be by the book. Dependent: I shouldn’t be dependent on other people for approval, ometimes I need to do things on my own. Avoidance: I need to deal with problems right there and in the face instead of slacking. Competitive: Need to be a little less competitive and let other people get ahead and learn from them. Achievement: I need to work on my goals a little bit more, be more goal oriented than living day to day. Oppositional: Be a little less oppositional and be more open to other people’s ideas. I plan to learn to be a better management from this class and apply all these new thinking style I never know I had.Hopefully in the future I’ll be able to fine-tune all this style to become a better performing manager. Name:  Ã‚  D01673320| Date Survey Taken:  Ã‚  | Your LSI Styles ProfileThe raw and percentile scores in the table below and the extensions on th e circumplex shown below depict your perceptions of how you think and behave. The CONSTRUCTIVE Styles (11, 12, 1, and 2 o'clock positions) reflect 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.The PASSIVE/DEFENSIVE Styles (3, 4, 5, and 6 o'clock positions) represent self-protecting thinking and behavior that promote the fulfillment of security needs through interaction with people. The AGGRESSIVE/DEFENSIVE Styles (7, 8, 9, and 10 o'clock positions) describe self-promoting thinking and behavior used to maintain status/position and fulfill security needs through task-related activities. Position| Style| Score| Percentile| 1| Humanistic-Encouraging| 35| 80| 2| Affiliative| 39| 96| 3| Approval| 28| 95| 4| Conventional| 25| 93| 5| Dependent| 23| 90| 6| Avoidance| 13| 83| | Oppositional| 15| 87| 8| Power| 13| 79| 9| Competitive| 29| 99| 1 0| Perfectionistic| 24| 75| 11| Achievement| 33| 63| 12| Self-Actualizing| 37| 93| The raw scores potentially range from 0 to 40. The percentile scores represent your results compared to those of 9,207 individuals who previously completed the Life Styles Inventory. For example, a percentile score of 75 means that you scored higher along a particular position than 75% of the other respondents in the sample and, in turn, indicates that the style represented by that position is strongly descriptive of you.In contrast, a score of 25 means that you scored higher than only about 25% of the other respondents and therefore indicates that the style represented by that position is not very descriptive of you. Your LSI Styles CircumplexFor detailed descriptions of each of these 12 styles,? click on the circumplex graphic in each of the 12 sections. Examining your CircumplexTo accurately interpret your LSI results, it is important for you to consider your score on each style in terms of its ran ge (high, medium, or low) on the profile. The three ranges correspond to the percentile points in the circumplex and in the table above. |