Session given at Online Educa Berlin 2017.

1. Your are in this session
Welcome!

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Learning Uncertainty…
… requires human transformations.

3. Share at your table:
• Who you are
• What you do in your professional life
• Give one example of ‘VUCA’ in your world
• The one thing you thought you could never do/become but you
did…
Break that ice!

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This is about growing as humans

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Adult Development
• Meaning-making is what makes us human.
• Children develop in dramatic steps or “stages” (Jean Piaget)
• Adults continue to develop in stages (Lawrence Kohlberg, Bob
Kegan, Bill Torbert)
• Adults can become increasingly more mature as they “grow
up” and develop “bigger minds.”
• Our adult stage of development affects how we think and act
at work and at home – our “action logics.”
• There are at least seven transformations possible in
adulthood.

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How do we look at life?
Transformations

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Sort it out!
1. Take out only the ‘stage’ cards
2. Per table, sort the cards in an
order that makes sense for you,
eg how people evolve over the
span of their life
3. Class debrief on what is behind
the ordering you did

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Vertical Development

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Development =
Horizontal + Vertical
There are really two types of leadership development:
Petrie, N. (2014). Vertical leadership development, Part 1: Developing leaders for a complex
world. Center for Creative Leadership. White Paper.
Vertical Development
Growing abilities to think and act in
complex, systemic, and interdependent
ways.
Earned through life experience.
It’s about how you think.
Horizontal Development
Adding knowledge and skills.
Transmitted from experts.
It’s about what you think.

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• https://www.ccl.org/articles/white-papers/vertical-leadership-development-part-1-developing-leaders-for-a-complex-world/
• https://www.ccl.org/articles/white-papers/the-how-to-of-vertical-leadership-development-part-2-30-experts-3-conditions-and-15-
approaches/
If you are curious…

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Life Logics
From Here to There in
your life

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Make your story …
1. Use only the ‘logics’ cards
2. Individually, take cards that for
you represent your past, present
and future
• From: 1 or 2 cards
• Here: 1 or 2 cards
• There: 1 or 2 cards
3. Discuss at your table why you
picked those cards

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First Big Idea
We are not static, we are evolving and have
changed overtime

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Second Big Idea
Adults evolve in predictable ways

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From Transformations in Leadership © Dr. Edward J. Kelly 2014

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Third Big Idea
We reach new stages of development
through catalyst moments or people

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Break!
Are you a coffee or a tea person?

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The big hairy challenge is
bringing leadership
development to all.

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How can we spread Vertical Development?
(Make it go viral…)

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“Framestorming” at your table:
How can we help people with vertical
development?!
Frame the challenge (or part of it) in a
‘How might we…’ statement.

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Let’s hear the wicked problems…
1 per table

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Ideas to address the
challenge…

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Catalysts of Vertical Development

27. Three Conditions to Grow Vertically
• Tools
• Models
• Step-by-steps
• Skills
• Self-awareness
• Perspective
• Comfort with ambiguity
• Maturity
• Wisdom
Horizontal Development
Vertical Development
ELEVATED SENSEMAKING
Develop insight around:
• Your makeup (strengths, motivators,
preferences, assumptions etc.)
• How others see you, and the world
• How you learn (and how you can learn
differently)
• Possible different ways of seeing the world
COLLIDING PERSPECTIVES
Cultivate a network that includes:
• Diverse and colliding perspectives
• Great listeners and questioners
• People who see the bigger you
HEAT EXPERIENCES
Take deliberate action that:
• Stretches and challenges you
• Forces you to confront your (perceived)
limits
• Is new and / or different
• Tests your assumptions
To catalyze vertical development, we need:
Mars LAP Vertical Refresh
Rollout Plan

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HEAT Experiences
• First time experience
• Results matter
• Chance of success or failure
• People are watching
• It is extremely uncomfortable
Is there sufficient HEAT for you and your people?

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COLLIDING PERSPECTIVES
Cultivate a
network that
includes:
• Diverse and
colliding
perspectives
• Great listeners
and questioners
• People who see
the bigger you

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Elevated SenseMaking
• Your makeup (strengths, motivators, preferences,
assumptions etc.)
• How others see you, and the world
• Possible different ways
of seeing the world
• How you learn (and
how you can learn
differently)

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Three Triggers of Vertical Development
1. Intense stretch experiences
2. New ways of thinking
3. Strong developmental networks

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“Hack-a-ton” at your table:
Transform ourselves! What is a way to help people with Vertical
Development?
Frame the challenge in a ‘What I see us doing is…’ statement.

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Let’s hear the top scoring idea per
table…

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What would you do to test out
your idea if you had one week
and 500 euro?

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development?

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1. Use only the ‘catalyst’ cards
2. Individually, take out two cards
that for you represent triggers
that have moved you from ‘from’
to ‘here’ (past to present day)
3. Discuss at your table
4. Now, take out catalyst cards that
you can use to transform from
‘here’ to ‘there’ (present day to
future)

37. Reflection time.
What are the triggers that
will help you transform to
your future self?

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“Prototyping” at your
table:
Transform ourselves! How
to bring Vertical
Development to people…
Describe the experiment to
test out your idea if you
only had one week and
500 euro.

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What wows you?