Group
Styles Inventory (Human Synergistics) -
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The Group Styles Inventory (GSI) is a team based diagnostic measure,
assessing the behaviours observed, by team members, during a team
decision-making session.
Each team member completes the inventory and the combined responses
represent a clear profile of the behaviours used by the team in
its efforts to achieve quality decisions with high acceptance.
The GSI measures the constructive and defensive elements of group
processes with the 12 styles used in the Human Synergistics circumplex.
Certain group styles are productive and lead to high quality decisions
to which members are highly committed. Other group styles are counterproductive
and lead to solutions of marginal or poor quality and limited group
acceptance.
By using the circumplex, the GSI provides a common language linking
individual, group and organisational development efforts.
Used in conjunction with a group problem-solving simulation, the
GSI provides significant practical insight to group functioning,
allowing the group to focus its efforts precisely on where improvement
is needed.