![]() ![]() MIND SHIFT is our unique brand of vertical development. Although grounded in academic research, MIND SHIFT is thoroughly field-tested with leaders at all levels of an organization - both individually and in teams. The outcome of vertical development is the ability to think in more complex, systemic, strategic and interdependent ways. Vertical Development is about transforming a person’s thinking capability. ![]() Horizontal development is about adding more knowledge, skills and competencies. However true development isn’t just about learning new things (adding things to the ‘container’ of the mind), it’s about transformation - changing the way we know and understand the world (changing the actual form of our ‘container’). Many think that good leadership development simply means getting better at what we do (i.e. ![]() Most leaders know what they should be doing but what they lack is the personal development to do it. They commit to making big changes back at work, and yet when they return to their workplace they quickly fall into the same old habits they had before. This phenomenon plays out in many arenas, including leadership programs where managers learn new tools, techniques and models. If the threat of death isn’t enough motivation to make someone change, what is? For example, when seriously at-risk cardiac patients were told they would die if they did not change their habits, eat less, and exercise more, less than 15 percent were able to make the changes. Change and development can be hard it involves habit change after all.
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