Today’s leaders do NOT lack leadership skills. Yet we continue to design skill-based leadership development programs as if they did. Our leaders need to build their VUCA skills, which require a different approach. Explore 3 practical ways you can instantly defibrillate leadership development.

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Code Red!
Leadership Development has flat lined.

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$50 BILLION
annually

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SOURCE | Adapted from Global Leadership Forecast 2018
Leadership Quality – Little Progress Six Years Running

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SOURCE | Adapted from Lectica and Developmental Testing Service

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Leaders are not
equipped for VUCA

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What is the
DEFIBRILLATOR?

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Leadership Development – Holistic approach

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HORIZONTAL DEVELOPMENT
What you know:
• Increase Knowledge
• Increase Skills
• Increase Competencies
• Improve Behaviors

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SOURCE | Adapted from Global Leadership Forecast 2018
HORIZONTALAPPROACHES

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How you think:
• Advance thinking capabilities
• Increase ability to handle complexity
VERTICALDEVELOPMENT

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SOURCE | Adapted from Global Leadership Forecast 2018
VERTICALAPPROACHES

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Continuous cycles
of learning
Deliberate practices
in learning, thinking,
and deciding
Iterative decision and
collaboration tools
Leaders need three things
to build VUCA skills:

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Leaders need
continuous cycles
of learning…

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Leaders need
deliberate practices in
learning, thinking, and
deciding

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Leaders need
iterative decision and
collaboration tools

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If you don’t know where you are going,
you’ll end up someplace else.
— YOGI BERRA

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Conditions to spark
vertical development
Measurement of vertical
development
Both?

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