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Five mistakes
CARL SANDERS EDWARDS Last week we held our first Global Chat for the year and I was the guest primed with discussing 5 mistakes I have made over the past 15 years of deep work in enabling quality leadership development at scale. Gulp, sharing mistakes felt vulnerable...
Coaching Conversation with Lettie Dalton
“I always wanted to become a leader and now I don’t.” That’s an eye-opening start to a conversation with a leadership development professional! We are discussing the path Lettie Dalton has taken on her way to becoming a coach, facilitator, and General Manager of...
Coaching Conversation with Dan Lake
Long before Dan Lake was a lead facilitator and coach at Adeption, he was a bungy jump instructor and tour guide. “It’s different but similar when you compare motivating people to leap off a bridge and taking a professional or personal leap of faith. Most people...
Leadership Insights: Story editing
Carl Sanders Edwards My Dad was a primary school teacher. Unlike most teachers in those days, he was popular with the kids. I remember as a 6-year-old that everyone in our town seemed to know Dad and want to stop and chat and engage. So I asked him why. "Oh, they...
Leadership Insights: How’s your to-do list?
Carl Sanders Edwards I took a deep breath. I gulped the bitter green tea, squeezing the caffeine placebo as much as I could. "Two more", I said to myself hoping for a mantra like boost. I was exhausted but still needed to do more. I wasn't finishing an adventure...
The Vertical Incubator 2022 World Tour Wrap-up
Be conscious. Be curious. Be better. At our core, Adeption is not about technology or methodology. Instead, we are about a community of people. People who are passionate about growth, development, and helping others to be better leaders. Nothing demonstrates this...
Fortune 500 survey about Vertical Development
We asked HR executives of Fortune 500 companies in Silicon Valley about emerging trends around Vertical Development in 2022. Over the course of the year, we have seen multiple signs of increased interest in Vertical Development. For example, we received a record...
Resilience assessment
We have exciting news coming soon about a new resilience experience! In the meantime Derek Roger, the researcher who created the assessment and initial experience shared this. Enjoy.
B3 and neuroplasticity
One of the most powerful parts of B3 is the Be conscious phase. Often people get frustrated with this stage, "come on, get to the value...". However, it is critical! We often talk about the mental priming and pull that occurs when asking people to reflect...
Leadership and AI
The What's NXT Podcast where thought leaders from around the globe share their global insights on leadership, innovation, agility & change. Carl Sanders-Edwards was recently interviewed by Peter Holliday & David Yeates. --- Listen here...
Why vertical development?
---By Carl Sanders-Edwards The world faces many complex opportunities and challenges. For example global mobility, technology and population growth are contributing to: Social changes such as the opportunity and challenge of immigration Economic changes including...
Stretching the cultural bungee cord
---By Nick Petrie Have you worked in this type of organization? It became successful by meeting a particular customer need and found a winning, repeatable formula. Around that formula it developed a strong culture that was: siloed, technically expert, and good at...