Meaning Making and Vertical Development
I am delighted that I have been accredited by Harthill in the Leadership Framework Action Logics. Thank you to the inspirational and wise @AnastasiaNekrasova and fellow coaches for such an amazing learning and development experience.
The Leadership Development Framework (LDF) maps Adult Development in a completely different way to most psychometric tools. Action Logics focuses on not ‘what’ we know but ‘how we make sense’ of the world and our meaning making. As a Vertical development approach it focuses on ‘How’ we think and make sense rather than Horizontal development (knowledge and skills acquisition).
Developed from the work of David Rook and William Torbert summarised in their HBR article
Seven Transformations of Leadership your Action Logic is assessed through a simple sentence completion followed by very sophisticated analysis. Your unique Leadership Development profile and extensive Report provides the basis of a debriefing conversation with an accredited coach (that’s me!) to explore, uncover, challenge and support your individual and unique meaning making and stage of Action Logics.
The Tool is validated and has been completed by over 14,000 leaders around the world, who find the experience enlightening and inspiring.
So what does this mean for leaders?
Understanding and being aware and intentional on how you make meaning is key to your own self-awareness and working with others
It helps deepen your ability to evolve capabilities, capacities and perspectives
Knowing your action logics, especially under pressure can help you avoid unhelpful thinking and behaviours
·It enables you to work with your team and other partners, appreciating their meaning making and leveraging commonality and difference to achieve shared goals and purpose
It helps to deepen your own understanding of self, your development and sense of direction aligned to your authentic drivers
It can be helpful when facing increasing complexity in expanding flexibility, particularly when in transitions and facing uncertainty
It gives a common language and framework to understand different perspectives objectively
But why is vertical development important?
"There is nothing inherently 'better' about being at a higher level of development, just as an adolescent is not 'better' than a toddler.
However, the fact remains that an adolescent is able to do more, because he or she can think in more sophisticated ways than a toddler. Any level of development is okay; the question is whether that level of development is a good fit for the task at hand."
Nick Petrie Vertical Development Specialist
If you are curious and would like to know more, there are some great resources curated at Harthill and I’d be delighted to discuss how it could help you, your leadership, your meaning making and your team
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