Three Frameworks that Can Reveal Your Biggest Vertical Development Need
What is Vertical Development? If you are not familiar with vertical development, it is important to understand that we have two sides of ourselves: Our Doing Side – The level of our talent, knowledge, skills, & abilities Our Being Side – The sophistication of our internal operating system (to what degree is it wired for […]
Improving Your Mental Toughness: It’s Not About Skill Development—It’s About Being Development
Mental toughness is what allows us to stay focused, grounded, and effective when circumstances become difficult, unpredictable, or high-stakes. In today’s fast-paced, pressure-filled world, mental toughness is not just valuable—it’s essential for meaningful leadership and personal growth. You are probably reading this because you know of the importance of mental toughness. But, I am curious: […]
Moving Your Leaders Beyond Mediocrity: How to Elevate Your Leaders to Mind 3.0
In today’s rapidly changing and increasingly complex world, effective leadership is more critical than ever. Yet, startling data from PWC reveals that 85% of leaders operate at a moderate level of sophistication in their leadership—what we can classify as Mind 2.0. While these leaders are valuable and competent in many ways, most organizations are unknowingly […]
What Leadership Development Goals Should You Have for Yourself?
In my consulting work with organizational leaders, I have observed two phenomena as it relates to their development goals. First, I have observed that most leaders (50+) do not have clear development goals for themselves. I think the primary reason for this is because they tend to operate 100% in performance mode, and 0% in […]
How to Help Leaders and Managers Become Effective Coaches
LeadX continues to report that organizations’ biggest leadership development priority is helping their leaders and managers develop a greater ability to coach and develop their employees. If you are wanting to better understand how to help your leaders and managers better coach and develop your employees, you are in the right place. Setting Your Strategy […]
A Key to Elevating Leaders: Help them Rise Above Their Fears
A dated leadership theory is the Full Range Leadership Model. This theory suggests that leaders generally have a leadership style when it comes to how they operate as a leader, which likely maps somewhere along this continuum from ineffective to effective and passive to active: Here are some basic definitions of each style: Transformational leadership […]
How to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Leadership Development Programs
For a journal article I am working on, I have been combing through the academic research on leadership development. You might be interested to know that given the amount of time and money organizations spend on leadership development, there is relatively little research in academia on leadership development. It is definitely seen as a concern […]
The Value and Importance of Vertical Development
What I am going to present in this article is perhaps the clearest way to articulate (1) what vertical development is and (2) the value and importance of vertical development. To lay the foundation for these two points, we need to recognize that people have two sides to themselves. Two Sides of Ourselves We all […]
What is Character? And How Do Leaders Develop It?
Last week, I presented an idea that we have two sides of ourselves: a DOING Side and a BEING Side. The DOING Side represents our talent, knowledge, skills, and abilities. The higher we are on the DOING Side, the more capable we will be at performing specific tasks that are aligned with our talents, knowledge, […]
You Have a DOING Side AND a BEING Side
What do these people have in common: Bobby Knight, Michael Jackson, Lindsay Lohan, Shia LaBeouf, Naomi Campbell, Bill Clinton, Richard Nixon, Gordon Ramsay, and Tiger Woods? These are all people that are immensely talented, but have operated in a manner that reveals that they are perceived as having a flawed character. This similarity exposes an […]
