Globally

Now have 650 licensees in the UK – about 250 actively using LIFO®, around 4,000 worldwide Corporate clients internationally include:• DHL Shell• Barclays Mubadala• CapGemini T-Mobile• Rolls-Royce Deutsche Bank• Nissan Johnson and Johnson• SABIC Maritime and Coastguards Authority• ACCA Specsavers

9 million people have benefited from the Lifo® method worldwide

Features and Benefits of theLife Orientations® Model

Features 4 orientations or strengths Behaviour described in normal and

unfavourable circumstances Strength-weakness paradox

Intention-Behaviour-Impact

Client-centred approach

Benefits Simple structure and language,

easily absorbed so barriers to personal learning removed

Strengths celebrated and managed. Positive approach

Multi-layered interpretation gives: flexibility to consultant for level they

wish to take model structured insight into sub-conscious

strategies moves client quickly into true development

Client takes responsibility for own development. No “black box”

Features and Benefits continued

Underpinning Value Systems

Personal, team and organisation surveys

360º capability

Support materials, including 16 other languages

Gives clear “sell” to behavioural change by using the levers of the client’s own value set

Values and behaviour of individuals, team or organisation can be mapped using same model

Powerful feedback tool to drive new insight into impact of behaviour and perceptions of others

Truly global model with cultural acceptance in all countries in which it has been used

Culture

What otherssee & hear

Personality(the inner you)

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Role

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What the survey measures!

your behavioural strategies:• as you operate normally• when dealing with stress or conflict

communication congruency• Intention – what you set out to do• Behaviour – what you actually do• Impact – how you think you come across

Strength/weakness irony

We need to appreciate that:

Relying too much on

one set of strengths

ensures the

certainty of

Inappropriate or excessivebehaviour

• others now see our strengths as weaknesses

or

• threatening the strengths they like to use

Applications and Usage: Individual

Personal development: • Coaching• Management/leadership development• Skills training eg time management, negotiation training,

customer care, sales and influencing skills• Stress management• Career counselling

Assessment:• Informing the assessors – areas to explore• Behavioural fit

Applications and Usage: Team

Team building and team development• Awareness of others’ strengths and own impact• Communications between team and with other parts of the

organisation• Overall profile of the team: strengths and weaknesses• Specific behavioural action planning• Games

Applications and Usage: Organisational

Cultural model• Defining existing culture• Defining desired state culture with behavioural descriptors;

managerial styles etc• Align styles of the leaders to organisation’s values• Defining staff/customer perceptions and action plan for

change• Analysis and planning tool for merging cultures

(organisations and national)

Training Available to Trainers

Licensing workshops• Refreshers• Advanced Interpretation

Stress managementWorking with teamsCoaching skillsTrain the trainerSelling and negotiation skillsLeadership and management development

On-line

All surveys in all languages on-linePersonal Style Development report on-line and available in English, US English, Dutch, French, German, South American Spanish, Japanese360°feedback on-line

Personal Development Levers

Total scores: normal and unfavourable

Excessive scores

Sub-scores

Identification of strengths Overview structure that

anchors understanding of behaviour

Understand shift of behaviour and what might need to be managed

Insight into what might not be working and potential barriers to good communications

Successful and unsuccessful strategies; stress and other unhelpful patterns

Personal Development Levers Continued

Values Maps of the World Motivation to change Stress indicators Understanding of others and

their motivations Insight into language patterns

that aid communication Understanding of why new

behaviour doesn’t stick