Acumen Leadership WorkStyles™ (LWS)

Building on the Life Styles Inventory™ (LSI), 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 provides rich, detailed information that can motivate, guide and track the progress of leadership-development initiatives.

Audience: Managers, executives, project mangers and others in leadership positions

Most Frequently Used for:

• Promoting self-understanding and self-monitoring to empower and lead others
• Developing leaders for positions with greater responsibilities
• Enhancing organizational effectiveness through leadership development

Time Required: 15-30 minutes to complete the inventory

Format: Paper Computer-Scored; Online

Feedback Provided: The results of Self and Others’ reports on personal orientations (Constructive (Satisfaction), Passive/Defensive (People/Security), and Aggressive/Defensive (Task/Security)) and 12 specific thinking and behavioral styles associated with these orientations; Descriptive analysis of the leader in terms of his/her particular combination of styles, including how he/she tends to behave and the degree to which these patterns are effective or counter-productive

Presentation of Results: A comprehensive, personalized feedback report that includes circumplexes, interpretations of self and others’ perceptions, spread of opinion profile, suggestions for development, and comments from others

Associated Outcomes: Research shows that the Acumen WorkStyles and LSI styles are related to important indicators of individual effectiveness including quality of interpersonal relations, managerial performance, openness to feedback, stress, salary, and organizational level.

Research and Development by: Acumen Research and Development Team

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