Leadership development is taking a new direction in today's rapidly changing world. Conventional leadership development concentrates on enhancing a leader's knowledge, skills, and abilities. This approach, known as "horizontal development", can't meet the demands of tomorrow's leaders.
The future of leadership development must incorporate both horizontal and vertical dimensions. Horizontal development focuses on increasing a leader's information base. Vertical development expands their capacity to handle complexity. You can add more apps to the device, or you can upgrade the hardware and the operating system.
But how do we increase a leader's capacity for complexity? Doesn't that simply come with experience? Yes, and no...
It would be convenient if time and experience alone guaranteed vertical development. Research tells us different. Some leaders develop faster than others. Some organizations encourage vertical development more effectively than others. Those leaders and organizations that embrace and master the vertical dimension will thrive. The others will fall behind.
telos has been embracing the concept of vertical development for several years. We see this as the new frontier of leadership development and we plan to lead the way. Care to join us?
We're launching an exclusive, six-month exploration into the exciting terrain of vertical leadership development. We're inviting a small group of leaders that we feel are ready to embrace this concept and bring it to the world.
