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The Change Style Indicator® measures individual style in approaching change and situations involving change.

What Does the CSI Measure?

Change Style Indicator® (CSI)

Developed by: W. Christopher Musselwhite and Robyn P. Ingram


Facts about Change Styles

• Style reflects aspects of personality or preferences — like right- or left-handedness

• Scores do not indicate effectiveness at utilizing a preferred style

• There is no right or wrong, “better” or “worse” style


Understanding Your Score Will Help You

• Manage your response to change• Recognize and appreciate the contributions that each

change style offers• Increase productivity through effective responses to

change style differences• Lead others through change


Change Style Indicator®

The CSI is a continuum-based model divided into three styles:

CONSERVER • PRAGMATIST • ORIGINATOR


Change Style Continuum

CONSERVER • PRAGMATIST • ORIGINATOR

66 13 0 13 66


Conservers

• Appear disciplined, precise, methodical, and cautious.

• Prefer solutions that are tested and proven.• Accept conventional assumptions.• Enjoy predictability.• Honor tradition and established routines.

Style Characteristics

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Originators

• May appear undisciplined, abstract, and spontaneous.

• Prefer quick and expansive change.• Challenge assumptions.• Enjoy risks.• May treat accepted policies and procedures with

little regard.




Pragmatists

• Appear practical, agreeable, and flexible.• Serve as mediators.• See both sides of an argument.• May take a middle-of-the-road approach.




Conservers See Originators As:

• Disruptive• Disrespectful of tradition and history• Generators of turbulent work environments• Insensitive to the feelings of others• Wanting change for the sake of change

Perceptions



Originators See Conservers As:

• Dogmatic• Hesitant to share new ideas• Compliant to authority• Stuck within the system• Defenders of the status quo

Perceptions



Conservers and Originators See Pragmatists As:

• Compromising• Mediating• Indecisive• Easily influenced• Noncommittal

Perceptions



Collaboration

Conservers• Bring order out of

turbulence• Revitalize current systems

for tomorrow• Work within the system to

bring about improvement ideas and greater efficiencies

Originators• Catalyze the necessary

turbulence• Help create the break from

worn out systems• Look outside the system to

bring about different ideas and different structures

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