My Life Style Inventory

Do you think you know yourself well enough? I would say “Yes” and “NO”. My awareness of behavior is separated into observable and unconscious. Observable is thoughts that I realize and acceptable. Unconscious are thoughts those are not easy to be accepted by my personality, so I ignore the existence of it, but it still can be recognized from my behavior. Life Style Inventory (LSI) is an evaluation test of 12 measurements to assist people to have more knowledge about each style and understand what styles they belong to. Also, it contains the purpose of self-improvement. It shows the positive and negative of each style and how to enhance to the way they want.
In general, LSI can be grouped into three styles: Constructive, Passive/defensive and

If I keep in my personal styles as power, conventional and limiting in human-encouraging, there will be not much improvement in planning, organizing, leading and controlling from my current situation because I feel like my director has the similar styles. According to Mason , Talya and Berrin, planning “involves setting objectives and determining a course of action for achieving those objectives.” As a Power style manager, I will create both positive and negative impact to planning. I have the authority to set strategies to meet the objective. However, there will be lack of communication with people that the planning will not come out with the better outcome to meet the objective. In addition, a Conventional style manager will try to keep steps like prior period. If there is any incident or new situation comes out, I will feel lost. According to Mason , Talya and Berrin, organizing “involves developing an organizational structure and allocating human resources to ensure the accomplishment of objectives. The structure of the organization is the framework within which effort is coordinated.” My Power style and Conventional style have negative effect to organizing because as a Power style manager, my authority is unquestionable which is hard to be a coordinator to allocate other departments to accomplish the objective. Also, Conventional style manager will lack the ability to face changes and inflexible. According

I have both my parents and a younger brother. Both my parents did not have high education and do not know much English, also my brother always listen to me, so I became the decision maker by that time. Time goes by, my parents and brother would ask me to make decision for them instead of learn how to do by them. Therefore, I end up become power style. Further, when I was in school, I liked to join various activities and had changes. Also, I understand that no risk no gain, so I would like to take risk sometimes. However, my current position pulls me from an energetic style into conventional style which I do not want to accept. Furthermost, from deep inside of my heart, I like to work with people, make friends and optimistic a lot of the time. However, because of my job, I need to work individually a lot of time. Therefore, from the beginning I had mentioned that I do agreed with power, conventional and limiting human-encouraging style in work situation, but not fully in personal life