Introducing The Circumplex

What can this circle tell you about improving organizational performance?

All you need to know.

Introducing the Circumplex, the driving force behind HSI’s integrated system for organizational measurement, feedback, and development.

What makes organizational change happen?

In a word, people.
People make the organization. So how do you get people to work toward a better organization? How do you get everybody on the same page, at the same time, moving in the right direction?

Use the same language.
Whether you are measuring individual, team or organizational effectiveness, the circumplex provides a common and consistent language for feedback, analysis, and change initiation.

Integrated Diagnostic System

Constructive Styles

Passive/Defensive Styles

Aggressive/Defensive Styles

Look at Performance— From All Angles

This circle, called the Circumplex, has the answers.

Developed by psychologist Dr. J. Clayton Lafferty over 30 years ago, the HSI Circumplex was one of the first to be used for development purposes. Over the past 25 years, Dr. Robert A. Cooke has directed numerous studies to validate the Circumplex and confirm the reliability of HSI surveys based on it.

The Circumplex provides a way to “see” what drives performance—that of individual contributors, leaders, work teams—in short, the entire organization. It breaks the factors underlying performance down into 12 ways or “styles” of thinking, behaving, and interacting. Some styles are effective and productive; some are not. Whether effective or not, they all describe what’s happening inside the organization and provide a direction for change and development.