Pre-Conference Workshop A2
Transform yourself - How Vertical Development Helps you Thrive in a VUCA World
Date Wednesday, Dec 6 Time – Room Tiergarten 1,2 Price: 95.00 € Status: places available
Bert De Coutere
IP & Innovation Lead, Center for Creative Leadership, Belgium
Bert’s professional life is all about competent people. He thinks, publishes, consults, designs and sets up learning and development projects for corporations. His areas of expertise include technology enhanced learning and leadership development.
Bert has been active in the field of corporate learning and e-learning for the last 20 years, first as instructor and course designer, later as project manager, consultant and business development manager. He worked at IBM Learning Development Europe where he was responsible for commercial e-learning development projects across Europe, and the management of the learning innovation initiatives. Six years ago he joined the Center for Creative Leadership where he is now a faculty and EMEA's IP & Innovation Lead. Bert wrote the book 'Homo Competens – Let’s talk about competent people in the network age', frequently speaks at conferences such as OEB and blogs.
Bert is currently a faculty member of the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) EMEA office. In his role he designs and develops customized leadership interventions and programs for clients. He is also the IP and Innovation Lead, making knowledge flow and orchestrating innovation initiatives.
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In this workshop, you will experience what vertical development means and how it helps us thrive in a world of uncertainty. How do we prepare people to work and lead in a Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous world?
Typically, the focus of education is to equip people with more competencies. This is known as horizontal development. Metaphorically speaking, this is filling up our cup with knowledge and skills. Vertical Development refers to the advancement in a person’s thinking capability. The outcome of vertical stage development is the ability to think in more complex, systemic, strategic, and interdependent ways. It is about how you think. It is about having a bigger cup to fill.
Vertical development can also transform the traditional way leadership development is taken on. Over the years, leadership has somehow become associated with a job position and leadership development is now a luxury for a chosen few. In the second half of this workshop, we will go through a rapid innovation process around the challenge to spread vertical development – to make it go ‘viral’.
While this interactive workshop is based on the adult development theories of Torbert and Kegan, and is rooted in research on adult stages of development, we will make it an interactive workshops in which participants uncover their life logics (which is the way we look at life) in a ‘from here to there’ developmental perspective. We will invite participants to try out a solution to build our vertical development story using a blend of physical (cards) and digital (web app) resources. After participants are familiar with vertical development, we go through a rapid innovation process around the challenge of bringing vertical development not just to the mainstream of leadership development, but to scale it up, making it go viral. We will brainstorm ideas and set up prototypes about how to bring vertical leadership development to all!
Agenda
| Welcome & Setting The Stage |
| A short look at leadership, leadership development and vertical development |
| From here to There : uncover your life logics (Transformation exercise) |
| Break |
| Vertical Development for All : framing the challenge, generating ideas for the challenge, setting up prototypes |
Target audience
Leadership development practitioners, L&D folks, business schools.
Outcomes
- Participants will get familiar with the concept of vertical development and how it links to leading in a world of uncertainty
- Participants will uncover and discuss their ‘life logics’ through a From-Here-to-There exercise
- Participants will uncover trigger events for vertical development in themselves and others
- Participants will use an innovation process to set up prototypes on how to bring vertical development into our institutions, companies and lives.