Create high performing workplaces by transforming team behaviours and improving performance.
Life Styles Inventory (LSI) is a powerful profiling tool developed by Human Synergistics that provides individuals, teams, and leaders with deep insights into their thinking and behavioural styles.
Using the Human Synergistics Circumplex, the Life Styles Inventory model identifies strengths, blind spots, and areas for improvement, enabling participants to enhance performance, improve communication, and create more effective workplace relationships.
Whether you’re focused on leadership development, team performance, or cultural transformation, the LSI model equips participants with practical tools and strategies to drive meaningful, long-term change.
A practical tool for understanding thinking and behavioural styles
LSI is a two-part assessment that evaluates thinking patterns and behaviours, helping individuals and teams achieve personal and professional growth.
LSI 1 (Self-Assessment):
Participants reflect on their own thinking styles and how these influence their actions, communication, and decision-making.
LSI 2 (360-Degree Feedback):
Identify what drives individuals and adapt leadership approaches to boost morale and productivity.
Results are displayed in the Human Synergistics Circumplex, a visual tool that maps behaviours into 12 distinct styles grouped into:
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Constructive Styles:
Promote personal growth, teamwork, and adaptability for positive performance.
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Aggressive/Defensive Styles:
Focus on individual needs, which may lead to stress and inconsistent results.
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Passive/Defensive Styles:
Encourage compliance and avoid conflict but may limit creativity and initiative.
The Life Styles Inventory helps participants interpret this data, identifying patterns that shape workplace culture and providing strategies to enhance effectiveness.
Using the Life Styles Inventory for leadership and team growth
The LSI Model is fully customisable and can be integrated into leadership programs, team-building workshops, and culture improvement initiatives. Whether you’re refining leadership behaviours, improving communication, or building a high-performing team, our facilitators adapt the Life Styles Inventory to meet the specific needs of your business.
By combining the Human Synergistics Circumplex with real-world scenarios, coaching strategies, and actionable frameworks, our expert facilitators ensure participants can translate insights into measurable results.
Proven tools to enhance self-awareness, leadership, and team performance
The Life Styles Inventory equips individuals and teams with insights into their thinking and behavioural styles, enabling them to drive personal and professional growth.
Participants gain clarity on their strengths, blind spots, and growth opportunities by visualising and interpreting feedback for practical application. The LSI Model fosters improved communication, accountability, and adaptability, helping leaders align their styles with organisational goals.
By developing emotional intelligence and promoting constructive behaviours, the tool empowers participants to:
Build stronger leadership capabilities and workplace relationships.
Enhance teamwork, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.
Reduce stress and improve decision-making processes.
Implement strategies to sustain growth, productivity, and performance.
Whether you’re focused on leadership effectiveness or cultural transformation, the Life Styles Inventory provides the tools to create meaningful and lasting change.
The Life Styles Inventory (LSI), developed by Human Synergistics, is a powerful tool that measures 12 thinking styles organised into three clusters: constructive styles (which drive effective performance), passive-defensive styles (which lead to avoidance behaviours), and aggressive-defensive styles (which stem from self-protective motivations). The LSI 1 captures self-reported thinking styles, while the LSI 2 gathers feedback from others on how your behaviour is actually experienced – providing a rich, multi-layered picture of how your thinking impacts your leadership.
The LSI goes deeper into the underlying motivations and beliefs that drive behaviour. Where DISC and MBTI describe preferences and styles, the LSI examines the quality and effectiveness of thinking patterns – particularly those that may be limiting performance or creating tension in teams. It’s a more confronting tool, but also one of the most powerful for creating genuine, lasting change in leaders who are open to deep self-reflection.
It is most commonly used with mid-level to senior leaders who are ready for a deeper level of self-awareness and development. The tool requires openness to challenge and a willingness to explore the thinking patterns that underlie behaviour. It works best within a structured development program with strong facilitator support and ideally individual coaching to process the insights.
Carefully and skillfully. The LSI can surface insights that are genuinely surprising or confronting for leaders – particularly when their self-perception diverges significantly from how others see them. Our facilitators are experienced in creating a safe, constructive debrief environment that helps leaders engage with challenging feedback in a way that motivates growth rather than defensiveness.
Contact us today to discuss how the LSI model can transform your organisation’s leadership and culture.