The Leadership WorkStyles is a multi-rater development assessment tool that measures the thinking and behavioral styles that impact a manager’s ability to lead.

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Research and development by Robert A. Cooke, Ph.D. and J. Clayton Lafferty, Ph.D.

Building on the Life Styles Inventory™, the ACUMEN^® Leadership WorkStyles™ (LWS) helps self-motivated leaders strengthen thinking and behavioral styles that promote their effectiveness and moderate styles that prevent them from realizing their potential. LWS is a 360° feedback assessment and development tool for leaders that focuses on combinations of the twelve Circumplex styles and the way they interact to provide feedback on strengths and counterproductive tendencies. It provides the leader with a highly personalized narrative report on the implications of their styles for task accomplishment and teamwork, as well as suggestions for improving communication and project leadership.

WHAT IS THE LEADERSHIP WORKSTYLES INVENTORY?

The LWS is a multi-rater development assessment tool that measures the thinking and behavioral styles that impact a manager’s ability to lead. This tool provides leaders with highly personalized feedback on how their ways of acting and reacting to people and situations shape their effectiveness.

HOW IT WORKS

Leadership WorkStyles offers self-motivated leaders a personal styles assessment with feedback from self and others.  Survey results are analyzed to develop standardized scores for leaders along the 12 Circumplex styles.  A profile based on self-reports and descriptions by others is generated to graphically illustrate the leader’s behavior along such styles as Self-Actualization, Approval, and Competition.  The leader’s profile is then analyzed in terms of 6 clusters or sets of styles.  The shape of the leader’s overall profile is determined by his or her primary, secondary, and in some cases, tertiary clusters.  This way, a feedback report can be developed for the leader in consideration of his/her particular combination of styles.  Drawing from a large database of information on leaders’ behavior, a detailed feedback report is generated that describes the relative effectiveness or ineffectiveness of the leader’s patterns of behavior.

LWS gathers feedback on each leader via two mechanisms:

• The LWS Self-Description Inventory is completed by each individual leader and measures his or her own perception of the thinking and behavioral styles that impact a manager’s ability to lead.
• The LWS Description-by-Others Inventory is completed by individuals with whom the leader works to provide insight into how others view the leader’s effectiveness.

LWS builds on the Life Styles Inventory™ to help self-motivated leaders strengthen thinking and behavioral styles that promote their effectiveness by:

• collecting feedback from self and others to measure the thinking and behavioral styles that impact a manager’s ability to lead.
• providing a visual profile to graphically illustrate the leader’s behavior along such styles as Self-Actualization, Approval, and Competition.
• generating a detailed feedback report that draws from a large database of leader behavior and describes the effectiveness of the leader’s own behavioral patterns.

An accredited consultant then guides the leader through the findings and helps him/her to develop strategies and techniques to improve his/her long-term effectiveness and impact.

The LWS surveys are available online on almost any digital device as well as in hard copy format.

LEADERSHIP WORKSTYLES APPLICATIONS

Leadership WorkStyles can be used for:

• Providing leaders with insights into their personal styles
• Showing leaders how their styles combine to shape their leadership performance
• Developing leaders’ capacity to monitor and modify their behavior
• Offering leaders feedback to help them develop into positions of greater responsibilities

WHO SHOULD USE THE LWS?

 Leadership WorkStyles is appropriate for executives, managers, and leaders who would like to develop and grow to realize their full potential.

THE BENEFITS FOR YOUR ORGANIZATION

LWS helps executives, managers, and leaders who would like to develop and grow to realize their full potential. It’s particularly useful for:

• providing leaders with insights into their personal styles
• showing leaders how their styles combine to shape their leadership performance
• developing leaders’ capacity to monitor and modify their behavior
• offering leaders feedback to help them develop into positions of greater responsibilities
• improve teamwork and leadership abilities to enhance organizational effectiveness

MAKE THE LIFE STYLES INVENTORYTM PART OF YOUR DRIVE FOR CHANGE

The LWS™ is used and facilitated exclusively by people who have been prepared and accredited in its administration and interpretation. We offer two options:

1. A qualified and experienced consultant can help you to use the LWS and implement the cultural changes you seek. Simply contact us to get connected with a consultant who’s right for the organization.

2. The entire change process can be led internally in your organization by arranging LWS™ accreditation for one or more change team members. This will ensure they have the skills to administer the LWS™ and identify appropriate levers to achieve long-term culture change. To get started, register for an accreditation workshop.

Certification is mandatory for this product.

The LWS requires accreditation via the General Certification Workshop before materials can be purchased.

 

 

 

 

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