Human Synergistics Diagnostic
360-Degree Feedback
& Life Styles Inventory
The Life Styles Inventory (LSI) is a powerful 360-degree feedback tool that reveals how your thinking and behavioural styles shape your effectiveness, both personally and professionally.
Understand the styles behind your effectiveness
The Life Styles Inventory provides insight into your thinking and behavioural styles, helping you understand how your thoughts and behaviours impact your effectiveness at work and beyond. It is the foundation for building lasting self-awareness and developing more effective leaders at every level.
How it works
The LSI measures 12 different thinking patterns that can either help or hinder your effectiveness. These patterns are organised into three clear categories.
Constructive styles
Thinking patterns that promote healthy relationships, effective teamwork, and a balanced approach to achievement and growth.
Passive / Defensive styles
Patterns that lead you to subordinate your own thinking to others, often at the cost of effectiveness and confidence.
Aggressive / Defensive styles
Patterns that prioritise tasks over people and can undermine relationships, trust, and long-term performance.
What you get
The LSI delivers a balanced, multi-rater view of how you operate, turning honest feedback into a practical foundation for growth.
Deep insight into your patterns
Gain a clear understanding of the behavioural patterns that shape how you think, decide, and act.
See how others perceive you
Understand how colleagues and peers experience your leadership style, surfacing blind spots and strengths.
Identify growth opportunities
Pinpoint specific areas for personal and professional development that will have the greatest impact.
Develop constructive thinking
Build the more constructive thinking patterns that support balanced, effective performance.
Improve relationships at work
Strengthen your effectiveness and the quality of the relationships you rely on every day.
A balanced, objective view
Move beyond assumptions with a measured, multi-rater perspective on your real impact.
What you walk away with
The LSI turns honest, multi-rater feedback into clear direction, giving you the self-awareness and the plan to develop more constructive thinking patterns.
A clear, objective picture of your thinking and behavioural styles
Greater self-awareness across all 12 LSI thinking patterns
Understanding of how your styles help or hinder your effectiveness
A focused, personal plan for ongoing development
Stronger, more constructive working relationships
The process
From first reflection to a personal development plan, the LSI journey is structured, confidential, and fully supported.
Complete a self-assessment
Begin by reflecting on your own thinking and behavioural styles to establish your personal baseline.
Gather feedback from others
Invite colleagues and peers to share confidential feedback on how they experience your styles.
Receive a comprehensive report
Your self-view and the feedback from others are combined into a single, easy-to-interpret report.
Participate in a detailed debrief
Work through your results with an experienced facilitator to make sense of the patterns and what they mean.
Create a development plan
Translate your insights into a focused, personal plan for developing more constructive styles over time.
The Circumplex
All Human Synergistics diagnostics map onto the Circumplex — a research-validated framework that organises thinking and behavioural styles into 12 positions across three orientations: Constructive (blue), Passive/Defensive (green), and Aggressive/Defensive (red).
How do they compare?
Choose the right diagnostic for your needs. Human Synergistics tools use the Circumplex framework for deeper, research-backed insight into thinking styles and culture.
Diagnostic | Focus | Best for | Circumplex framework | Multi-rater feedback | Self-assessment | Team-level insights | Organisation-wide culture | Includes debrief |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Life Styles Inventory (LSI) | Individual thinking styles | Personal development, leadership growth | ||||||
| Leadership/Impact (LI) | Leadership strategies & impact | Senior leaders, executive development | ||||||
| Organisational Culture Inventory (OCI) | Organisational culture | Culture change, M&A, transformation | ||||||
| DiSC | Behavioural style | Team communication, quick insight | ||||||
| Hogan Assessments | Personality & derailers | Selection, executive assessment |
Not sure which is right for you? Take our 2-minute quiz or get in touch for guidance.
What our clients say
Hear from leaders and organisations who have used Human Synergistics diagnostics to build self-awareness and drive change.
This is the most meaningful training I have ever attended, most likely as it was to help me look at the way I do things, how this impacts others, and developing new practices to improve my performance as a team member and leader.
Leadership Program Participant
Local Government
The LSI helped me see patterns I had been blind to for years. The debrief with my coach was confronting but incredibly valuable. I now have a clear plan for shifting towards more constructive styles.
Senior Manager
Health Sector
Running the OCI across our organisation gave us the data we needed to have honest conversations about our culture. We could finally see the gap between where we were and where we wanted to be.
Executive Director
Not-for-Profit
Frequently asked questions
What does the Life Styles Inventory measure?
The LSI measures 12 thinking patterns that can either help or hinder your effectiveness, organised into three categories: constructive styles, passive/defensive styles, and aggressive/defensive styles.
How is the LSI different from a standard 360?
Rather than rating performance, the LSI combines your self-assessment with confidential feedback from colleagues into a single report on your thinking and behavioural styles — then pairs it with a facilitated debrief and a personal development plan.
What does the LSI process involve?
There are five steps: you complete a self-assessment, colleagues provide confidential feedback, the results are combined into a comprehensive report, you work through it in a detailed debrief with an experienced facilitator, and you leave with a focused development plan.
Can Veraison run LSI debriefs in Perth?
Yes. Veraison's accredited practitioners are based in Perth and run LSI debriefs in person across Perth and WA, and virtually Australia-wide.
Accredited Human Synergistics Partner
Veraison is an accredited partner of Human Synergistics International, with practitioners certified to administer and debrief the full suite of Circumplex-based diagnostics.
Accredited practitioners
Our Perth-based team is accredited to administer and debrief LSI, working with organisations across Western Australia and Australia-wide. Talk to one of our qualified practitioners to get started.
Request a quote
Tell us about your requirements and we will prepare a tailored quote for Life Styles Inventory (LSI).
Ready to build self-awareness that lasts?
Get in touch to explore how the LSI and 360-degree feedback can help you and your leaders understand their impact and develop more constructive styles.
Get in touch
Based in Wembley, Perth — partnering with organisations across Western Australia and beyond.
- Address
- Level 2, 151 Herdsman Parade, Wembley, WA 6014
- Telephone
- 08 9287 1041
- info@veraison.com.au