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.
Table of Contents
Author’s note ix
Introduction: The vertical growth imperative xi
Part I: Developing a vertical growth mindset 1
1 The Mindful Leader Matrix 3
2 Why leaders struggle with walking their talk 13
3 How values help us grow 35
4 Choose your growth values 47
5 Commit to action 63
Part II: Developing self- awareness and resolving the shadow 77
6 The role of mindfulness in personal growth 79
7 How to practise self- awareness 95
8 Overcome numbness and denial 111
9 See and resolve the shadow 123
Part III: Vertical growth in teams and organisations 153
10 Setting and living team and organisational values 155
11 Creating a container of team psychological safety 173
12 Eliminating team triangulation 183
13 Keep the team on track with 200 per cent accountability 189
14 Giving and receiving conscious feedback 205
15 Personal transformation and the hero’s journey 221
The Mindful Leader: Vertical Growth Resources 229
Sources 231
Index 235
