The LSI helps individuals to strengthen thinking and behavioral styles that promote their effectiveness and moderate styles that prevent them from realizing their potential. The LSI provides invaluable and otherwise unavailable information that can motivate, guide and track the progress of self-development initiatives.
Audience: Appropriate for all individuals, including organizational members across levels and functional areas
Most Frequently Used For
Promoting self-understanding and guiding self-development
Improving capabilities as a team member or individual contributor
Providing feedback for stress management programs
Strengthening organizations by enhancing individual effectiveness
Time Required: 20-30 minutes to complete the inventory
Format: Paper Self-Scored; Paper Computer-Scored; Online
Feedback Provided: Self (LSI 1) and Others’ (LSI 2) reports on personal orientations (Constructive, Passive/Defensive, and Aggressive/Defensive) and 12 specific thinking and behavioral styles associated with these orientations
Presentation of Results: On the circumplex, normed on the basis of 9,000 respondents
Introducing The Circumplex
What can this circle tell you about improving organizational performance?
All you need to know.
Introducing the Circumplex, the driving force behind HSI’s integrated system for organizational measurement, feedback, and development.
What makes organizational change happen?
In a word, people.
People make the organization. So how do you get people to work toward a better organization? How do you get everybody on the same page, at the same time, moving in the right direction?
Use the same language.
Whether you are measuring individual, team or organizational effectiveness, the circumplex provides a common and consistent language for feedback, analysis, and change initiation.
Associated Outcomes:
Research shows that the LSI styles are related to various indicators of individual effectiveness including quality of interpersonal relations, openness to feedback, stress, salary, and organizational level.
Combine Views for a Clearer Picture
How can you use the Circumplex to improve organizational adaptability and effectiveness?
The Circumplex is the driving force behind HSI’s integrated system for organizational measurement, feedback, and development. Our Circumplex-based surveys measure the factors that drive performance at multiple levels throughout organizations. These surveys include:
Linked together by the Circumplex, these assessments provide a structured system for taking a close look at an organization to decide what’s working, what’s not, and how to fix it.
