LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

“The real voyage of discovery consists in not seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes” - Proust


With ever increasing demands being placed on all of us, and especially leaders, it is essential that we learn new ways of managing ourselves and understanding the world. The focus on leadership development today is too much on leadership and not nearly enough on development. Today’s challenges require more than just learning new technical skills. They require adaptive changes that result from transforming of our mindsets.
Integral Potential works with leaders to develop the personal and leadership skills necessary to lead effectively. We can support you in the development of effective teams, collaborative communication, your presence as a leader, or understanding adaptive vs. technical change. Whatever your challenge as a leader we can help through by engaging in collaborative relationship and developing mutually agreed upon goals.

All leadership begins with Self-leadership or Self-Management. It begins with understanding ourselves, managing our feelings and assumptions, and reducing the blind spots that limit our knowing, and the meaning we make of our worlds. Blind spots prevent new learning and change. These blind spots or mindsets usually develop early in our lives and are often defense mechanisms that make it difficult for us to be fully present and inhibit us from operating from our true authentic Self. . Integral Potential can help you re-own these pieces of your authentic Self through the development of reflective strategies and new skills for being more present, more available for learning, collaborating, and responding to the day-to-day situations you are faced with.

• Learn to identify situations requiring adaptive vs. technical change
• Develop Self-management skills
• Identify thought process and behavior patterns that get in the way of attaining your goals, shut down communication, create defensiveness and reduce productivity.

Integral Potential uses the Myers Briggs Type Indicator to supports this learning by bringing to light your unique pattern of preferences for taking in information, making decisions, and communicating with others, solving problems and managing conflict. Learning our own patterns and understanding that others have their own unique patterns leads to greater understanding, better communication and decision-making. Integral Potential can also help leaders develop communication structures and styles that result in mutual learning versus counter productive unilateral models of leading and communicating which inhibit communication and create mistrust. Mutual learning models increase openness and trust, improve efficiency, and improve internal commitment to decisions made by teams. Integral Potential can also apply the MBTI and/or the Immunity to Change process to the development of teams. We can support leaders in the development of teams that are also aware of their own unique personality types and the strengths or challenges that result from them. Teams with this awareness understand how the inclusion of different styles leads to greater team effectiveness.

Teams can also learn to be aware of the collective barriers to change that often develop in organizations.

• Develop increased trust and understanding.
• Encourage personal development of team members through increased understanding of each other’s strengths and differences.
• Transform relationships by building bridges of understanding between diverse perspectivesWe have all set goals for ourselves that have not come to fruition despite our best efforts.

This is typically because underlying our desire for change are assumptions about us that inhibit our ability to take the steps necessary to reach our goals. We develop internal protective systems that are in direct conflict with actually attaining our goals. We want to change and yet at the same time we need to stay the same so as not to have our worst fears uncovered.

Integral Potential helps you systematically uncover competing commitments to change through the use of interviews and structured processes. We also provide you with the support you need to try on new behaviors that dispel long held self-limiting beliefs. I have found that once individuals uncover the sophisticated systems they have built to keep them stuck they feel a sense of relief and hope and are ready to try a renew systematic their efforts to attain their goals.