Chapter Status: Structure in development. This chapter will guide practitioners through LSI 2 (assessment by others) and the gap analysis between self-perception and observed behaviour.
Chapter Purpose
The Life Styles Inventory™ 1 showed you how you think you think. LSI 2 shows you how you actually behave — as seen by the people around you.
The gap between the two is where the next level of development lives.
This chapter explores:
- LSI 2: assessment of your behaviour by others — how colleagues, direct reports, and managers experience you
- The gap analysis: the distance between self-assessment and others' assessment
- The gap between how we think we think and how we actually behave — and why that gap exists
- Using the gap to refine your three clouds — triangulating more precisely what is required to move from security-based to satisfaction-based thinking
- Level 4 of YourThinkingCoach pathway — giving us a shared language to explore the human system
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this chapter, you will be able to:
- Understand the difference between LSI 1 (self-assessment of thinking styles) and LSI 2 (assessment of behaviour by others)
- Interpret the gap between self-perception and observed behaviour
- Use gap analysis to refine and deepen your three cloud method insights
- Develop targeted practices for closing the most significant gaps
- Use Levels 3 and 4 together as a language for exploring the human system
Content in development.
Your Development, Seen by Others — Level 4
Level 4 of YourThinkingCoach pathway adds the perspective of others. Using LSI 2 alongside your LSI 1 results, you explore the gap between intention and impact — and develop the language to work with the human system at its deepest level.
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