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Inner Game – What and How

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² CEO /Founder of Vertical Leadership
Consulting
² 25+ years in Talent Management
² Global Program Design & Deployment
(Leadership Development, Performance
Management, Employee Engagement,
Career Management, and Diversity/
Inclusion)
² PhD in Human and Organizational
Development
² Hockey Mom to 13 year old son, Carson
² Precision and Emergence

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SOURCE | Adapted from Mastering Leadership

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Inner Game
Two Distinct Research Traditions
Dawson’s Lectical Levels Kegan’s Levels of Consciousness
CENTER OF GRAVITY– a ‘level’ that we originate from
in most circumstances
DOMAIN SPECIFIC – complexity of thinking level is
specific to domain or skill

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Lectical Levels
• Developed by Theo Dawson, Ph.D.
• Published in Peer-Review Journals
• Scoring system that describes
developmental growth
• Formative assessments – shows
individual the areas of focus
• Multiple functions across HR processes
• Assess role fit
• Define levels of work and related
capabilities
• Inform recruitment and advancement
• Construct more effective teams
• Support development of mental
complexity and essential capabilities
SOURCE | Lectica and Developmental Testing Service

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Lectical Levels
Four developmental “zones” of adult reasoning
SOURCE | Adapted from Lectica and Developmental Testing Service

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Variety of Applications
SOURCE | Lectica and Developmental Testing Service
Electronic Scoring
Scalable
Individualized Results
Organizational Results

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Lectica Precise Role Fit
General Role Fit –
based on analysis of
levels of work level
hierarchy
Precise Role Fit –
based on analysis of
role complexity of
specific role
SOURCE | Lectica and Developmental Testing Service

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Lectica Formative Developmental
Assessments
Evidence-based and precise diagnostic measurement. Supports development of a
wide range of essential leadership and workplace skills.
SOURCE | Lectica and Developmental Testing Service
Leader Decision-
Making (LDMA)
1) Cognitive complexity
2) Perspective taking,
seeking, & coordination
3) Collaborative capacity
4) Contextual thinking
5) Decision making process
6) Coherence
Leader Self-
Understanding (LSUA)
1) Thinking & learning
2) Ethics
3) Responsibility to others
4) Respect for others
5) Personal responsibility
6) Willingness to seek &
accept feedback
7) Reflectivity
Leader Reflective
Judgment (LRJA)
1) Cognitive complexity
2) Nature of evidence
3) Process of inquiry
4) Perspective taking
5) Truth & certainty

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Lectica Leader Decision-Making Assessment
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Levels of Consciousness
• Developed by Robert Kegan, Ph.D.
• Limited research in peer-reviewed
journal
• Popularized through books and
integration in Harvard curriculum
• The Evolving Self
• In Over Our Heads
• Immunity to Change
• Deliberately Developmental Organizations
• Mastering Leadership
• Changing On the Job
• Based on subject-object
• Individual frame

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Levels of Consciousness
future Weeks to months Months to years Years to generations
people Employees and clients And local communities and
governments
And the global community
and the environment
task If I do X, Y will happen If I do X, someone else
might do Y, and then Z will
happen
If I do X, people will make
sense of X, which will lead
them to change what they do
Increasing Scale and Scope
SOURCE | Adapted from Figure 7.1 in Changing on the Job: Developing Leaders for a
Complex World
Leading teams solving
straightforward or understood
problems
Leading a division of people who are
leading teams who are solving
straightforward problems
Leading collectives who are further
from the work-or who are coping with
more complex work

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Applications
Growth Edge Coaching
Subject-Object Interview
Immunity to Change
Deliberately Developmental
Organizations
Leadership Circle Profile
SOURCE | Leadership Circle Profile Assessment

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Growth Edge Coaching
SOURCE | Table 3.1 from Changing On The Job: Developing Leaders for a Complex World

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Leadership Circle Profile
SOURCE | Leadership Circle Profile Assessment

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Emerging Leaders Program
Leadership Circle Profile
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Inner Game
Two Distinct Research Traditions
Dawson’s Lectical Levels Kegan’s Levels of Consciousness
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