J. Clayton Lafferty Case

10/14/07

Bus 160 L. Doty

TTh.9:00-10:15

Life Styles Inventory

According to Human Synergisitcs International, J. Clayton Lafferty, Ph.D., Founder and Chairman, asserts that the "Life Styles Inventory" will allow for one to "know themselves" presently, and become the person they aspire to be. The "Life Styles Inventory" is an accurate way to determine one's lifestyle tendencies. It is important that the participants must be completely honest, truthful, and unbiased when filling in their responses. I felt that I did a fine job trying to come up with multiple situations for each question. The more situations I could think of, the more I could relate and identify my score. I feel that the results of my "Life Styles Inventory" are quite accurate. Of the twelve styles, I demonstrate achievement, affiliative, conventional, and competitiveness. I will continue to discuss these as my primary styles and further analyze its development, impact on my life, and any changes that I may need to make.

Of my top four styles, I found that I am the best at achievement. I usually have a great success achieving excellent results on difficult tasks because I try to accomplish goals based on my own values and beliefs. Even though I may have success in something, I know I can constantly work harder to become better. As I look back on my life I realized that I developed an achievement style ever since I have been attending school. Beginning with my elementary years, I made sure that I went to school every day, and my attendance has been important for me to this day. With school, comes homework. Ever since I can remember, I have always worked very hard at completing all homework, group assignments, projects, and readings on or ahead of time. I always have put my best effort in all of my work, and I look forward to any feedback. I have been committed to improvement because there is always something I can do to make my work better. Through the U.S. educational system, I have learned that I earn the grades I receive, and there is room for improvement. Based on the LSI guide states, I would make a really good manager in the future. The guide says that I will lead by an example and positively encourage everyone to succeed at their task. I will also set the standards really high and be viewed by some people as a leader.

Another style that I exhibit everyday is my affiliative styles. I am a person who forms strong relationships with people by keeping in contact as often as possible, even when I do not see them often. I feel like I have many friends. My relationship with my family is extremely important to me. My affiliative nature developed with the growing relationship among my friends and family. I feel very fortunate to be a part of a family that is so close-knit and collective. It is with my family where I experience the unconditional love just from sharing our lives together. We engage in many different meals, parties, vacations, and other activities together. In addition to my family, I have always had the best friends who have merely always been trustworthy and reliable. My friends have always included me in activities; hence, we tend to also tend to spend a lot of time together. According to the LSI guide, I will become a likable manager. I will probably be most liked by of my peers and coworkers, because I will be very sincere and concerned with their needs. I will build strong relationships with those who I affiliate with which will lead to great success in the workplace.

I am also a very conventional person who tends to do things "by the book" and adhere to all rules. This gives me my comfort