Vertical growth : how self-awareness transforms leaders and organisations / Michael Bunting and Carl Lemieux.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bunting, Michael, author.

Lemieux, Carl, author.

Series:

A The mindful leader book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Success in business.

Self-consciousness (Awareness).

Leadership.

Organizational change.

Success.

Mindfulness (Psychology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (274 pages)

Place of Publication:

Australia : John Wiley & Sons, [2023]

Summary:

Learn the secrets to self-awareness, life-changing growth and happy, high-performing teams--from the bestselling author of The Mindful Leader Great leaders and teams don't know everything, and they don't get it right every time. What sets them apart is their commitment to continual learning and vertical growth. Vertical growth is about cultivating the self-awareness to see our self-defeating thoughts, assumptions and behaviours, and then consciously creating new behaviours that are aligned with our best intentions and aspirations. By embracing the deliberate practices and processes for vertical growth laid out in this book, you'll not only radically improve your leadership and personal wellbeing--you'll also foster the highest levels of trust, psychological safety, motivation, and creativity in the teams and groups you work with. You'll to discover how to: Identify when, where and how to develop new leadership behaviours to get better results Regulate your emotional responses in real time and handle the most difficult challenges with balance, wisdom and accountability Cultivate practices for self-awareness that foster lifelong internal growth and personal happiness Uncover and change the limiting assumptions and beliefs that keep you, your team and organisation locked in unproductive habits and behaviours Create practices and rituals that enable the highest levels of psychological safety, innovation and growth Filled with fascinating real-life case studies as well as practical tools and strategies, this is your handbook for mastering vertical growth in yourself, your team and your organisation.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Free bonus resources

Author's note

Introduction: The vertical growth imperative

Horizontal skills and knowledge versus vertical growth

Vertical growth within organisations

Vertical growth cuts through image management

Why self-awareness is critical

Becoming deliberately developmental

Cultivating inner psychological safety

Research on vertical growth and mindful leadership

Part I Developing a vertical growth mindset

Chapter 1 The Mindful Leader Matrix

How to use the matrix

Fast brain, slow brain

Chapter 2 Why leaders struggle with walking their talk

Stages of human development

A self-examined life requires courage, but it's worth it

Leadership and the self-examining mind

Chapter 3 How values helpus grow

Values to increase engagement and commitment

Quadrant 1: growth values

The most important leadership values

Honesty as a foundational value to a growth mindset

Chapter 4 Choose your growth values

Find your growth edge

Places to explore growth values

Results, goals and strategies versus values

Statement of aspiration

Chapter 5 Commit to action

Four steps for taking conscious, committed action

Using the Mindful Leader Matrix

Part II Developing self-awareness and resolving the shadow

Chapter 6 The role of mindfulness in personal growth

The research on mindfulness

Two types of mindfulness training

Mindfulness and the Mindful Leader Matrix

Mindfulness cultivates distress tolerance

Chapter 7 How to practiseself-awareness

The four foundations of mindfulness

The four foundations in practice

Mindfulness and subject-object theory

Chapter 8 Overcome numbness and denial

To see our shadow, we must first overcome numbness and denial

How the inner judge triggers numbness.

Self-compassion creates inner psychological safety

Use the matrix to break the pattern of numbness

Chapter 9 See and resolve the shadow

Uncovering the shadow

Using the Mindful Leader Matrix to see and resolve the shadow in quadrants 3 and 4

Discover your unconscious assumptions

Find the fears, attachments and assumptions causing your stress

Two more exploration questions on attachment

Completing the left side of the matrix

Using the matrix in your personal life

Expect a messy process

Part III Vertical growth in teams and organisations

Chapter 10 Setting and living team and organisational values

Using the Mindful Leader Matrix within teams and organisations

Using the matrix to set team or organisational values

Translate your values into behavioural commitments

Owning your organisational shadow

Chapter 11 Creating a container of team psychological safety

How team psychological safety impacts the left side of the matrix

Four key elements of psychological safety

Chapter 12 Eliminating team triangulation

The three roles of triangulation

How to stop triangulation

The cost of triangulation

Chapter 13 Keep the team ontrack with 200 per cent accountability

Accountability starts with ourselves

A simple question that helps you take personal accountability

Two sides of accountability

200 per cent accountability in action

Making mindful agreements

Constructive feedback creates psychological safety

Chapter 14 Giving and receiving conscious feedback

Why giving feedback is so difficult

How to give conscious, compassionate feedback

How to receive feedback with a growth mindset

Defensiveness destroys trust and credibility

Cultivate distress tolerance to receive feedback

Use curiosity to understand feedback.

Chapter 15 Personal transformation and the hero's journey

The hero's journey in adult development

Be kind to yourself on the journey

Be true to yourself

The Mindful Leader: Vertical Growth Resources

Sources

Index

EULA.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The three roles of triangulation

Other Format:

Print version: Bunting, Michael Vertical Growth

ISBN:

9780730395492

0730395499

OCLC:

1344540425