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Vertical development is becoming more well-known and talked about within leadership development. I’ve heard various people talking about the wonders and benefits and others talking about all the risks and dangers. Which is true? After using vertical development tools and models for 10 years, I thought I'd share the 7 most important things I’ve learned. 
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Too often we think that changing leaders is about putting things into the leader’s practice—new skills, new understandings, new behaviors. The piece we often miss is that for leaders to be transformational, they also need to be transforming themselves. But how?
Andrew Gerkens's insight:
Leadership development often focuses on technical (knowledge, skills, tools) rather than adaptive (mindsets, fears, assumptions, stages of adult development) needs. Vertical development focuses on unlocking the potential for adaptive leaders.
Jennifer's book is easy to read and a valuable resource.
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Andrew Gerkens's insight:
Overview of a leadership development program, that includes Immunity To Change and the Leadership Circle profile, to respond to adaptive challenges and support vertical development
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Nick Petrie shares the 7 most important things he has learned about vertical development.
1. Leaders find it helpful on many levels
2. It is just a model: it is not ‘the answer’ or the only way of understanding humans.
3. Hold the stages lightly
4. You are too complex for any assessment to capture
5. You are not at a stage
6. Higher stages are not ‘better’
7. There are heroes at all stages